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What is The Harlem Renaissance (THR)? Where and when?
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What is “black urban migration” and how does it relate to THR? Explain and be specific.
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What were some of the reasons and/or social/economic conditions that may have encouraged a large number of black
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Americans to migrate from the South to urban areas in the northern and western parts of the country during the early twentieth century? What impact did it have on the South?
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What does the term “Jim Crow” mean and where did it get its origins?
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What are some major differences between plantations before the civil war and those that still exist in the twentieth/twenty-first century?
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Who was H.L. Mencken? Why did many Southerners dislike him?
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What is “The Great Depression”? Define it and give a detailed description with dates, etc. Why is this an important event in American History?
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1. What is The Harlem Renaissance (THR)? Where and when?
2.What is “black urban migration” and how does it relate to THR? Explain and be specific.
3.What were some of the reasons and/or social/economic conditions that may have encouraged a large number of black Americans
to migrate from the South to urban areas in the northern and western parts of the country during the early twentieth
century? What impact did it have on the South?
4.What does the term “Jim Crow” mean and where did it get its origins?
5. What are some major differences between plantations before the civil war and those that still exist in the twentieth/twenty-first
century?
6.Who was H.L. Mencken? Why did many Southerners dislike him?
7. What is “The Great Depression”? Define it and give a detailed description with dates, etc. Why is this an important event in
American History?