The correct answers are A) They were hoping to find better schools. B) They were looking for an opportunity to get ahead. D) They expected to find better jobs.
During the 1920s, more than a million blacks moved from the farms in the south to the cities in the north. The statements that give reasons for this migration are the following: They were hoping to find better schools, they were looking for an opportunity to get ahead., and D) They expected to find better jobs.
We are talking about a period in the modern history of the United States that historians call 2the Great Migration." It is believed that 6 million African Americans moved from the South and rural areas of the country to the most industrialized northern cities where manufacturing plants offered better jobs. Racial issues and poverty forced millions of people to look for better opportunities in the north.