From 1878 to 1880,some Twenty-Five Thousand Blacks from Louisiana,Texas,and Mississippi

question 15

Multiple Choice

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

• A) black church leaders who linked emancipation to the Book of Exodus.
• B) black migrants from the South to Northern cities.
• C) black freedman 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.