Question

African Americans traveled west after the Civil War for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

• A. To work on the railroad
• B. To escape racial segregation
• C. To work in the fur-trading industry
• D. To mine gold and silver
• E. To claim homesteads for themselves and their families

Answer 1

The correct option is C To work in the fur-trading industry

The fur-trading industry had died out before the Civil War. People were still hunting and trapping animals for their fur, but there was no longer a major industry to attract people to the West en masse.