Question

The map below shows migration routes followed by African Americans after the Civil War. Map image showing the Great Migration of African Americans from 1900 to 1929. The map shows several distinct patterns of movement. One path moves from the southern states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia to the north along the East Coast. A second path moves from the southern states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee to the northern states of Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. A third path moves from the southern states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas to the north and to the west. © 2011 The Exploration Company Which of the following is the best explanation for the migration patterns shown on the map?

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Explanation:

The best explanation for the migration patterns shown on the map is that emancipated slaves left the South to escape radical discrimination and to seek economic opportunities in the North and West, in a process known as Great Migration.

The Great Migration was a migration of about 2 million African Americans from the rural areas of the southern United States to the industrial cities of the north, northeast and west in the decades between 1900 and 1930. It was one of the central events in the history of African Americans in the 20th century. Most blacks came from the rural states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. They created larger African-American communities in cities such as New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Omaha, Indianapolis, St. Louis, or Pittsburgh, some of which even have an African-American majority today.  This migration was caused mainly because of the failure of Reconstruction, which ended with a white regain of power in Southern states, with a consequent decline in rights that African-Americans had won after the Civil War.

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