From 1878 to 1880, Some Twenty-Five Thousand Blacks from Louisiana

question 43

Multiple Choice

From 1878 to 1880, some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, known as "the Exodusters", were  

• A) black church leaders who linked emancipation to the Book of Exodus.
• B) black migrants from the South to Northern cities.
• C) black freedmen who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas.
• D) a political organization developed by the freedmen.
• E) black homesteaders in Oklahoma and Kansas who eventually fled the dust bowl.

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