The Great Migration Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, historical figures, statistics, and concepts from the study of the Great Migration.

The Great Migration

The historic movement between 1916 and 1930 in which nearly 1.5 million Black people left the South for industrial centers in the Northeast, Midwest, and California.

13th Amendment

The constitutional amendment passed in 1865 at the close of the Civil War that officially ended slavery.

Reconstruction

A brief period of reform following the Civil War aimed at improving the lives of formerly enslaved people, during which African Americans gained voting rights and political office.

Jim Crow

The system of rules and laws in the South allowing racial segregation and discrimination, which treated Black Southerners as second-class citizens.

Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

Voting restrictions imposed by Southern states to prevent African Americans from gaining political power.

Push Factors

Conditions in migrants' home environments that drive them out of their current location.

Pull Factors

Opportunities and conditions in a new environment that lure migrants to move there.

The Blues

A genre of music brought by African Americans moving to Chicago during the Great Migration, which later gave birth to jazz, R&B, and hip-hop.

Chicago Population Growth (1910-1930)

The dramatic transformation of Chicago's African-American population, which skyrocketed from 44,000 in 1910 to 235,000 by 1930.