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Question 18 • United States History and Geography

A pull factor that caused African Americans to migrate north in the early 1900s was

Answer
A
integration.
B
Jim Crow laws.
C
guaranteed jobs.
D
higher wages.

Explanation

A pull factor is something that attracts people to a new place. In the early 1900s, many African Americans moved north seeking better-paying work, so higher wages were a pull factor. Jim Crow laws, by contrast, were a reason to leave the South, not an attraction to the North.

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