Read the excerpt from a letter written by an African American migrant in Selma, Alabama, to a Northern labor agent in 1917:
"Dear Sir: I am writing you to see if you can find me a job in the North. I have a family of five and want to get them out of this place. The white people here do not treat us right. They pay very low wages, only $1.25 a day, and we have no school for the children to go to more than three months in a year. I read in the papers about the good wages and the schools up there, and my brother who is in Philadelphia says he is doing well..."
Based on the letter, which of the following best explains how push and pull factors interacted to motivate the writer's participation in the Great Migration?
- The decision to migrate was shaped by both Southern push factors, such as low wages and substandard educational facilities, and Northern pull factors, including letters from relatives and advertisements of better opportunities.Cevap
- BThe migration was motivated entirely by a sudden escape from physical racial violence in Selma, with the writer expressing no interest in Northern economic conditions.
- CThe primary driver was the belief that Southern sharecropping was a fair and prosperous system, which the writer only left due to temporary Northern labor shortages.
- DThe writer was motivated by the knowledge that Northern cities had legally prohibited all forms of racial discrimination and housing segregation.
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The decision to migrate was shaped by both Southern push factors, such as low wages and substandard educational facilities, and Northern pull factors, including letters from relatives and advertisements of better opportunities.
The correct answer is correct because the letter highlights a combination of Southern push factors (low wages and poor schools) and Northern pull factors (newspaper reports and family networks) that worked together to motivate the migration.
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The Great Migration and Demographic Shifts
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