What motivated the mass migration of many

African Americans to Kansas in the 1800s?

A. African Americans could have their

passage to Kansas paid for by rich

businessmen by agreeing to work on

the railroad

O

B. There was a large amount of unused

land that African Americans could

claim to start ranches.

C. Factories hiring African American

workers were opening in towns

throughout the state.

O

D. Benjamin "Pap" Singleton encouraged

African Americans to move to Kansas

for better opportunities.

D - Benjamin "Pap" Singleton encouraged

African Americans to move to Kansas

for better opportunities.

Explanation:

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809-1900) was an American activist and businessman, well known for his role in creating African - American settlements in Kansas. Being former slave from Tennessee who broke free in 1846, he became a prominent abolitionist, community leader, and representative of African American civil rights movement at that time. He came to the conclusion that blacks would never achieve economic equality in the conditions of white dominance of the South. After the Reconstruction, Singleton organized the movement of thousands of black colonists, known as Exodusters, to establish settlements in Kansas.

By 1877, the federal government had left the southern states, and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan 'launched' huge 'campaign' of African American terrorism. Singleton used this moment to bring 73 settlers to Cherokee County in Kansas. He found land in Dunlap, Kansas, and, by the spring of 1878, the Singleton' group went to Kansas. The following year, there were already approximately 2,500 settlers. They named the area "Dunlap colony."

In 1879, approximately 50,000 liberated African Americans left the south and went to the west. Although many had nothing common with Singleton, many built relationships with settlers from the Dunlap colony.