Multiple choice

What's a result of Democrats regaining power in the south and oppressing A-A after 1877?

  1. African Americans became farm workers in the North.

  2. Thousands of A-A families migrated to the Midwest.

  3. The Colonization movement settled A-A in Liberia

  4. Southern A-A refused to serve in the U.S. military
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Explanation

Following the end of Reconstruction in 1877, the rise of Jim Crow laws and white supremacist violence led many African Americans to flee the South. The Exoduster movement saw thousands of families migrate to the Midwest, particularly Kansas, in search of land and freedom.

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