Multiple choice

What describes a pull factor that drew African Americans during the Great Migration?

  1. the availability of good jobs in the North and West

  2. the sale of inexpensive land by the federal government

  3. the construction of low-cost government housing in cities

  4. the absence of racial discrimination in the North
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Explanation

The Great Migration was driven by 'push' factors like Jim Crow laws and lack of opportunity in the South, and 'pull' factors like the availability of industrial jobs in Northern and Western cities during and after WWI.

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