Interactive Map Quiz of the Great Migration During World War I

Interactive Map Quiz of the Great Migration During World War I

Interactive Map Quiz of the Great Migration during World War I

For use with Lesson Three of the online course, “Evolving Status of Blacks in the Twentieth Century”

1. The map

The map quiz is to be used in conjunction with Lesson three essays and assignments.

The map quiz is divided in two parts: the first in Flash (spelling?) format and the second in ANGEL.

The only details on the flash map are state boundaries and dots representing selected cities. The flash map is based on a template of a map of the continental United States depicting only state boundaries.

Nothing should be named or labeled on the map.

2. Interactive Map for Flash format.

The dots, which are locations of cities on the map, are unlabeled. Some dots are “real” and others are “false starts.” A “real” dot is the correct answer. The “false start” dot is the wrong answer.

The question asks the student to click on the dot for the city that had significance to the World War I phase of the African American Great Migration. The student first reads the question and then looks at the list of possibilities. Next the student clicks on the dot that she or he thinks is the correct answer to the question.

If the student clicks on the incorrect dot for the question, then she or he hears a buzz or raspberry sound.

The incorrect dots are for the following cities.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Annapolis, Maryland

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Dayton, Ohio

Evansville, Indiana

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Houston, Texas

Indianapolis, Indiana

Jackson, Mississippi

Louisville, Kentucky

Macon, Georgia

Mobile, Alabama

Nashville, Tennessee

Peoria, Illinois

Richmond, Virginia

Shrevesport, Louisiana

Topeka, Kansas

Youngstown, Ohio

If the student clicks on the correct dot for the question, then a drop down window appears with brief information. The student should memorize the information or take notes of the information because the second phase of the quiz is to proceed to ANGEL and answer map quiz questions there. [QUESTION: Will student be able to shift repeatedly between Flash and ANGEL? I want ANGEL quiz questions to “disappear” after a certain date.]

The map quiz has twenty questions, one question for each “real” dot city. The cities for the “real” dots, each with its flash question and drop down information, are:

Question 1: What is the capital city of Georgia and location of a vibrant black urban middle class?

Answer: Atlanta, Georgia

Drop down window information: This city was both a major destination and embarkation point for black southerners in search of jobs and a better way of life. Atlanta University, Morehouse University, and Spellman College are a few of the historical black colleges and universities located in Atlanta.

Question 2: What is the largest city and seaport in Maryland?

Answer: Baltimore, Maryland

Drop down window information: Baltimore attracted large numbers of black southerners because the city had both a well-established black community since early nineteenth century and labor intensive industry that needed workers.

Question 3: Which city is known as the “Pittsburgh of the South”?

Answer: Birmingham, Alabama

Drop down window information: Birmingham, Alabama, was a major steel producing city in the American South. Large numbers of black workers worked in the steel mills and in the coal mines surrounding the city. Northern industry tapped the workforce of experienced and skilled African American steelworkers and coal miners in hopes of filling the labor shortages during World War I.

Question 4: Which is a major steel producing city in New York?

Answer: Buffalo, New York

Drop down window information: Buffalo, New York, had a small African American population before the twentieth century. The city’s black population soared as migrants arrived from the South and filled vacancies in the area’s steel mills.

Question 5: What was the nation’s largest railroad hub?

Answer: Chicago, Illinois

Drop down window information: A major destination for black southern migrants, especially those residing in states that border the Mississippi River. Chicago, the nation’s largest freight and passenger railroad hub was also an industrial powerhouse with steel mills, meatpacking plants, and other manufacturers that desperately needed black labor during World War I.

Question 6: What was a bustling Ohio River port city downriver from Pittsburgh?

Answer: Cincinnati, Ohio

Drop down window information: Like many cities north of the Mason-Dixon Line, Cincinnati, a busy river port and pork processing city, had a well-established black community. The city’s African American population increased dramatically with the arrival of black southerners during the Great Migration.

Question 7: An Ohioan steel-producing city on Lake Erie

Answer: Cleveland, Ohio

Drop down window information: Cleveland had steel mills that attracted black laborers. While some cities like Chicago was a primary destination for migrants, Cleveland, like Buffalo, was a secondary destination, being further away from direct rail lines from the South.

Question 8: What became known as “Motown”?

Answer: Detroit, Michigan

Drop down window information: Thanks to automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford and his assembly line and Model T car, Detroit became the capital of America’s automobile industry. Black migrants quickly learned that Henry Ford, for his own reasons, welcomed African Americans workers to his automobile plants.

Question 9: Which city was the site of the sole major “race riot” during World War I?

Answer: East St. Louis, Illinois

Drop down window information: Black people lived in East St. Louis since its founding and had established a presence in certain industry, especially meatpacking, before the Great Migration. But the migration accelerated certain social patterns that led to two race riots in 1917, the more horrific and well-known of the two occurred in July.

Question 10: What was Indiana’s major steel-producing city?

Answer: Gary, Indiana

Drop down window information: Gary, Indiana, was a planned city and for all practical purposes a company town of the industrial giant, United States Steel Corporation. The city’s steel industry enticed black southern migrants.

Question 11: Twin Midwestern cities separated by a state boundary.

Answer: Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri

Drop down window information: Missouri was a slaveholding state and Kansas had a significant in-migration of black southerners known as the Exodusters in the late 1870s, but the two cities first attracted sizeable numbers of African Americans with the Great Migration to work in meatpacking plants.

Question 12: What was Louisiana’s most cosmopolitan city?

Answer: New Orleans, Louisiana

Drop down window information: African Americans have been residing in New Orleans since the colonial era. They formed a sizeable percentage of the city’s working and middle classes. The city was both a point of departure for the Great Migration and a destination for the lesser known but also important regional or southern version of the Great Migration.

Question 13: Which city became the intellectual and cultural capital of Black America and home to the nation’s largest urban black population?

Answer: New York, New York

Drop down window information: People of African descent have been living in New York since the colonial era. The first large black community, Harlem, began before the Great Migration. But with thousands of migrants from the South and even from the Caribbean, Harlem emerged during the Great Migration as the urban capital of Black America.

Question 14: Which Virginian city has a large naval base?

Answer: Norfolk, Virginia

Drop down window information: Norfolk, like many southern cities, experienced a continual in-migration of African Americans after the Civil War. More moved to the city during the Great Migration to work primarily for the U.S. Navy and in the shipyards and other waterfront occupations.

Question 15: Which city is a major cotton marketing center on the Mississippi River?

Answer: Memphis, Tennessee

Drop down window information: Memphis drew large numbers of African Americans, many from neighboring Mississippi Delta regions of Mississippi and Arkansas. Memphis became both home to an increasing number of African Americans and a point of departure for tens of thousands who sought employment and a better way of life in the industrial cities of the North and Midwest.

Question 16: Which city is the birthplace of the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

Answer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Drop down window information: Home of a vibrant black community since the colonial era, Philadelphia with its diverse industrial economy attracted black southern migrants, a majority from the Atlantic southern states.

Question 17: Which city was known as the steel capital of America?

Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Drop down window information: The steel mills in Pittsburgh and its neighboring towns and small cities welcomed black southerners to fill labor shortages created by World War I.

Question 18: This city has been known as the gateway to the Midwest since mid-nineteenth century.

Answer: St. Louis, Missouri

Drop down window information: St. Louis was both a destination and a temporary stopping point for tens of thousands of black southerners. Like many southern and border region cities, St. Louis had a relatively large black middle class and a vibrant urban black community.

Question 19: Which city is the location of the “Harvard” of historically black universities and colleges?

Answer: Washington, D.C.

Drop down window information: Not known as an industrial city, Washington, D.C. still attracted black southern migrants to its service economy. African Americans experienced continued difficulty obtaining government jobs because in the early 1910s President Woodrow Wilson instituted segregation in the federal civil service system.