1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Great Migration: Black Population Shift South (decline) Chicago NYC/Harlem Detroit

The migration pattern shown most directly contributed to which 1920s cultural phenomenon?

  • A

    The collapse of jazz music in the United States.

  • B

    The expansion of sharecropping into northern states.

  • C

    The Harlem Renaissance, an African American flowering of literature, music, and art in northern cities.

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  • D

    The rise of southern agrarian poetry as the dominant national style.

Explanation

Roughly 1.6 million Black southerners moved north from 1910-1930 seeking jobs and freedom from Jim Crow. Concentrations in Harlem and other northern neighborhoods produced writers (Hughes, Hurston), musicians (Ellington, Armstrong), and political movements (Garvey).

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