African American Migration to Kansas

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African American Migration to Kansas
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Reconstruction
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Why did Jim Crow laws harm African-Americans

• A) They enforced the segregation of African
  Americans from other Americans
• B) They forced African Americans to become
  successful sharecroppers
• C) They began the period known as Reconstruction
• D) The required federal troops to leave the South

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Why did the Exodusters move to the Great Plains?

• A) There were many jobs on the Great Plains
• B) They wanted to own their own land
• C) The soil was good for farming
• D) The Homestead Act forced people to move

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• B

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Why come to Kansas?

• Well before the last Federal occupation troops
  left the South at the end of Reconstruction in
  1877, oppression had already deeply eroded the
  few social and economic gains blacks acheived
  after the Civil War. Organizations like the Klu
  Klux Klan terrorized or killed African Americans
  who resisted the constraints of racisim.

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• Poverty, customs and laws prevented the newly
  freed slaves from buying land after the Civil
  War, Many returned to work for their old masters
  as sharecroppers, but dishonest treatement by
  many landlords and lack of education kept African
  Americans in economic slavery.

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Exodusters

• Came by the thousands and settled in communities
  throughout Kansas.

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Pap Singleton
A Land speculator and promoter who encouraged
hundreds of African Americans to move to Kansas.
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Nicodemus

• Believed to be named for a slave who they
  believed had purchased his own freedom.

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Exodusters was the name given to

1. American Indians who were moved out Kansas into
   Oklahoma Territory
2. European immigrants who came to Kansas in covered
   wagons.
3. African Americans from the Deep South who came to
   Kansas during a second wave of immigration
4. Politicians in the new state of Kansas.

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• C

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Benjamin Pap Singleton was a

1. land surveyor who helped to solve land disputes
   in Kansas
2. Land speculator and promoter who encouraged
   African Americans to come to Kansas
3. Railroad worker who traveled to Russia to recruit
   Mennonites to come to Kansas
4. Wagon master on the Oregon-California Trail

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• B

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Nicodemus was settled by

1. French silk farmers
2. The Swedish immigrants
3. Mexican railroad workers
4. Freed slaves from the South

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• D

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Term Exodusters my understanding 1 2 3
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• Draw

Words to help me Bible/Exodus Freedom Pap
Singleton
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Term Pap Singleton my understanding 1 2
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• Draw

Words to help me Exodusters Real-estate New
opportunity