Read the passage below then answer the question that follows:

Question

"People from all over the country moved west. Many farming families moved from areas where farmland was becoming scarce or expensive, such as New England. Many single women moved west. The Homestead Act granted land to unmarried women, which was unusual for the time.

In the late 1870s, large numbers of African Americans began to move west. Some fled the South because of violence and repression. The end of Reconstruction in 1877 led to harsh new segregation laws. Also, the withdrawal of federal troops left African Americans unprotected from attacks by such groups as the Ku Klux Klan. Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, a former slave from Tennessee, inspired others. He urged African Americans to leave the South and build their own communities in Kansas and elsewhere in the West. By 1879 some 20,000 southern African Americans had moved to Kansas. Many others settled in Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois. These African American migrants were known as Exodusters because they had made a mass exodus, or departure, from the South."



Based on the passage above, choose the term that best completes the sentence below:



Following Reconstruction, ______________________ left the South to escape harsh segregation laws and

settled on the Great Plains.

carpetbaggers

dry farmers

sodbusters

exodusters

Answer 1

Following Reconstruction, exodusters left the South to escape harsh segregation laws and settled on the Great Plains.