AP African American Studies

How did the Harlem Renaissance most affect society?

• Produced great jazz music for dancing

• People started talking about race in America

• The artists had children that won major awards

• African-American artists were considered equal to European-American artists

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The Harlem Renaissance refers to:

• literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture

• struggle for civil rights by the NAACP

• program to promote African-American owned businesses

• population increase in Harlem during the 1920s

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What was the impact of the Harlem Renaissance? 

• promoted the growth of New York cities

• promoted culture identity of African Americans 

• it fought discrimination in southern cities

• it established programs such as the NAACP

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What is the Harlem Renaissance?

• A travelling basketball team

• A rebirth of African American culture in art, music, and literature

• A medieval game

• Time period of around 1210 a.d. when the games of jousting and art became popular

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Which statement best reveals the central idea of the text?

• Africans secretly developed many of the traditions that would become important to the Americas.

• Africans struggled to pass their traditions down because they were forbidden from writing or reading.

• When Africans were brought to the Americas, their culture became an important part of many countries’ cultures.

• When Africans left their homeland, they forgot the cultural traditions that were important to their identity.

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Why did enslaved African Americans use Christianity as a tool of resistance?

• It was a way to escape

• Admonition for the humane Treatment (related to bible admonition, dehumanization etc)

• They heard the Word of God

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Match the following African American Achiever with the correct fact.

• Birthday

  February 4th

• Oprah Winfrey

• Ballet Dancer

• Misty Copeland

• TV Host

• Rosa Parks

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Who is the Library that Langston visited named after?

• Langston Hughes

• George Cleveland Hall

• George Washington Carver

• Martin Luther King Jr.

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Zora Neale Hurston realized she was a "little colored girl" when...

• she moved away from her hometown at the age of 13.

• when she had an encounter with the Northerners

• when she went to NYC to study.

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Which supporting idea helps support the central idea that African culture became an important influence on the Americas

• The Africans brought new food to the Americas such as bananas, watermelons, yams and eggplants

• There were many Africans that did not survive the Middle Passage

• In the South communication amongst slaves was allowed

• Music was not embraced amongst the African people

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