WorksheetsAfrican American History part 2
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
What was true about Lord Dunmore's proclamation in November, 1775?
Since no slave could read, it had little effect on black population.
Dunmore promised to free slaves who joined the British army.
The proclamation had little effect on any kind on the Americans, who kept very tight control over their slaves.
Dunmore promised that the slaves would be used according to their intellect and leadership abilities
What was the "Talented Tenth"?
he most wealthy and influential group of whites. Washington felt all blacks should try to aspire to be like them.
The top ten percent of Black society. Leaders like Du Bois felt that this group should lead blacks to greater social and political equality.
The best group of students each year from Tuskegee. Washington generally rewarded them with land of their own to start out.
None of the statements are correct.
For what is Marcus Garvey most remembered?
Establishing the Black Star Line,a group of steamships that were supposed to help Blacks get back to Africa?
For filing legal cases against the system of segregation.
For setting up numerous schools for young black children in New York
For forcing many Blacks to enlist in his army, and fight New York policemen on a daily basis.
Which of the following cases involved a young black person who was denied admission to a law school because they were black?
State of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
Siquel v Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma
Dread Scott vs Stanford
Sweatt v. Painter
Which movement did WWII help to spark?
Jim Crow Movement
Civil Right Movement
Harlem Renaissance
Freedmen Bureau
What group of Birmingham citizens provoke "Bull" Connor to violence?
elementary, middle, and high school children
Martin Luther King Jr. and SCLC
college students
local parents not afraid to lose their job
What court decision did Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas overturn?
Plessy v. Feguson
Sweatt v. Paint
Dred Scott
Madison v Monroe
What event sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?
The leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.
The arrest of Rose Parks, a local seamstress and civil rights activist.
The violence against black men on the buses.
All of the above
What effect did the lynching Emmett Till incident have on young black Americans?
It frightened many. Young people would have only a small role in the civil right movement because of their fear.
It made many young black men turn to violence, crime, and terrorism.
Because Till had been a war hero, many young blacks enlisted in the army.
t infuriated many them, and caused them move into action and fight to have it never happen again.
What sacrifice did the men of the 54th Massachusetts make to protest race discrimination?
They went on a hunger strike to protest unequal treatment.
They had the first sit-in, at the White House, and were arrested and charged with treason.
They said they would accept no pay unless it was equal to white men.
The 54th Massachusetts men made no protest against race discrimination, as they were an all white regiment.
What was Lincoln's initial aim of the Civil when it began in 1861?
To free the slaves
To preserve the Union, without regard to ending slavery
To preserve the Union and to free the slaves.
Lincoln was completely surprised by the South's secession, and had no initial aims.
What is true about the Emancipation Proclamation?
It freed all the slaves in the United States
It only freed slaves in the rebellious southern states.
It caused Southerners in rebellious areas to free their slaves.
The South realized it was futile to continue, and surrendered
What statements about the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments is incorrect?
The 13th Amendment freed the slaves.
The 14th Amendment protected voting rights
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship.
15th Amendment protected voting rights.
What was not a belief of Booker T Washington about opportunities for blacks?
Washington believed blacks should learn cleanliness and proper morality.
Washington should that blacks should learn agricultural skills.
Washington believed that blacks should stress skilled labor, like carpentry.
Washington believed that blacks should work for the right to vote while they worked for economic success.
What black college did Booker T. Washington about opportunities for blacks?
Hampton Institute
Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
University of Alabama
Howard University
What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois help to start?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Colored Labor Union
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses
United Negro Improvement Association
Who was the most famous of the animal tricksters found in African-American folktales?
Br'er Rabbit
Roger Rabbit
Bugs Bunny
Br'er Cat
Most of the northern third of the African continent is made up of the Desert.
Kalahari
Sahara
Namib
Mediterranean
What were "rent parties"?
Parties where people got together to spend quality time.
Parties that occurred during the Harlem Renaissance so that blacks and whites could hang out together.
Parties which allowed poor blacks to raise money for the rent in Harlem Renaissance
Parties that occurred in the south.
All of the following are true about the role Whites play in the Harlem Renaissance, except...
come to Harlem to be entertained
giving Blacks money to work on their craft
learn about the new forms of dance, music, and culture.
to engage in violence acts.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
An outpouring of literary and artistic work from blacks during the 1920s.
A brief time when blacks in Harlem had equal social rights to whites during the 1920s.
The name given to the time period when Harlem was growing larger and getting more black institutions.
All of the above
What do many of the race riots of the early twentieth century have in common?
White were generally afraid that black newcomers would steal jobs and opportunities from them.
Police would often contribute to the violence themselves.
Frequently, whites would level accusations of some type of sexual misconduct against black men.
All of the above.
What was the problem, as viewed by many southern state, of voting laws like literacy tests, poll taxes, and property qualifications?
They thought the laws were too subtle and that voting should just be outlawed directly.
Since quite a few blacks owned property, they could still vote.
Since blacks could be voting registrars, they could simply override the tests and allow anyone in.
They might possibly also eliminate poor, illiterate white voters as well as black voters.
After Reconstruction, white people expected black people to observe certain rules of etiquette. Which of the following is not true?
Black men were suppose to remove their hates in the presence of a white person.
Black and White people could shake hands, but only if the black person did not look the white person in the eye/
Black men were never to look at, and certainly never to touch, white women.
White people were not expected to use any term of respect when speaking to a Black person.
What do the actions of Homer Plessy tell us about black people and segregation?
That blacks were very afraid of the KKK during this period.
That some blacks were willing to test the laws be being arrested and trying cases in court.
That blacks would risk being sent to jail rather than test segregation laws.
That blacks would protest with outright violence and murder when provoked.
How did Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" protest racism?
The song was about the violence directed against black women with rape.
The song was about the difficulties of hunger and starvation among blacks in the Gre
The song was both the horror and violence surrounding lynching
The song was about segregation and the degrading character of racism.
How did African women's experiences differ from African men's board slave ships?
Crews treated African women to better food, hoping to gain their trust and keep from rebelling.
African women experiences sexual violence by the ships' crews.
African women generally were treated with more respect , since they could reproduce, and therefore gain a higher price on market.
None of these statements.
What organization did Marcus Garvey form in Jamaica in 1914?
Universal Negro Improvement Association
NAACP
World Negro Association
Congress of Racial Equality
What was the first concern of many African Americans once they achieved freedom?
forming churches
retaliating against former masters
reuniting with lost family members
moving to the northern cities
How did some former masters react to the emancipation of their slaves?
Some were tremendously hurt and surprised when their enslaved people chose to run away or leave after freedom
Many were hopeful for their enslaved people
Some northerns reacted with violence against the .
all of the statements are true
What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
To free the slaves in the South
To help blacks find jobs in the North.
It was designed to help assist the newly freed slaves in their transition to freedom
To press for civil and political rights for blacks.
Which of the following statements is true about the importance of the education to blacks after Reconstruction?
They didn't really consider it very important, since many realized they would only be able to get work as field hands.
They saw education and freedom as closely linked, and often went to great lengths to form schools and attend them.
They thought it was important, but felt as though they had to accomplish other things before whites would allow them an education.
Blacks already had access to an education in the United States. Their school attendance and attitudes did not change after Reconstruction.
