Answer :

African Americans left the rural South in greater numbers during and after World War I for a variety of reasons, chief among them being the "(2) potential for manufacturing work in the North."

Since hiring women was definitely not an option, many industries and enterprises employed African American males to labor there in place of the whites since so many white American men were away fighting in the war. African Americans left their native southern American states during the World War I crisis and began moving to North America and nearby towns in pursuit of better life possibilities. African Americans' migration from the rural South to North American cities during World War I is known as the Great Migration.

The main reason for the increased migration of African-Americans out of the rural South during and following World War I was the

(1) availability of cheap farmland in the West

(2) opportunity for factory jobs in the North

(3) chance to escape racial segregation by joining the military

(4) elimination of the Ku Klux Klan in the northern states

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