Question

African Americans moved west in large numbers after the Civil War for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

• A. To look for greater racial tolerance and economic opportunity
• B. To take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Harlem Renaissance
• C. To escape violent persecution by angry white Southerners
• D. To acquire farmland that the Homestead Act made available for free to the first people to claim it
• E. To work on building the railroad that soon would connect the East Coast and the West Coast

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

To take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Harlem Renaissance

African Americans moved west in large numbers after the Civil War to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Harlem Renaissance.