exoduster movement

• when was the exoduster movement?

  1879
• when did the civil war end?

  1865
• how many slaves freed by the end of the civil war?

  4 million
• what did white americans do to stop black people from becoming free?

  • refused to sell them land
  • used violence and intimidation to stop them voting
• what did black Americans do due to the persecution faced?

  migrate west and claim land under the homestead act
• who pioneered the move to Kansas?

  Benjamin singleton
• what did singleton do to pioneer the movement?

  • promote kansas in newspaper adverts
  • helped hundreds of black americans move there
  • laid foundation for mass migration
• how much did it cost to travel to Kansas with the exoduster movement?

  $5
• what rumour spread in 1879?

  federal gov had given all of Kansas to former slaves
• was the rumour true?

  no, it did however cause a mass migration to kansas
• why did black americans move to Kansas?

  was historically and anti slavery state so they thought they would be safe there
• by the end if 1879 how many black americans had set off west?

  40,000
• why did white americans not like the exoduster movement?

  manifest destiny
• how much land was opened up for settlement?

  2 million