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WorksheetsAfrican American Studies Spring 2022 Final Exam Review
Total questions: 110
Worksheet time: 57mins
Africa is recognized as the birthplace of__a___ and the cradle of___b___
a. Humanity
b. Agriculture
a. Humanity
b. Civilization
a. Civilization
b. Religion
a. Religion
b. Civilization
The great ancient Egyptian civilization developed over_________years ago.
2000
3000
5000
6000
What was it that came from West Africa that caused the economic take off in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries?
Slaves
Camels
Gold
Trade
What was unusual about the Ethiopian kingdom in Africa.
Ancestor worship was of ancient origin in that region
Judaism was of ancient origin in that region
Islam was of ancient origin in that region
The Orthodox Christian church, which was of ancient origin in that region
He was the richest man who ever lived according to Forbes magazine
Musa Manseh
Mansa Musa
Olaudah Equiano
Egyptian Pharoah King Tut
Why does it matter where you start the timeline of tracking historical events?
Because depending on where you start the area could be in decline
Because depending on where you start, it can make a place look better than what it actually was
Because depending on where you start, the area could be advancing
All are true.
________a____________ was a famous Islamic University in the Kingdom of Songhai that stretched from Mali to Sudan. The famous Greek philosopher ___________b____________ studied there.
a. Timbuktu
b. Plato
a. Mali
b. Plato
a. Timbuktu
b. Aristotle
a. Timbuktu
b. Ahmed Baba
Please describe the type of slavery that existed in Africa prior to the Transatlantic slave trade.
It was just like the system of slavery that existed in the New World
It was more like the system of serfs in Europe who were tied to the land and the Lords who ruled them
wasn't practiced until the Europeans arrived
None are correct
Why are we learning about the experience of Olaudah Equiano?
His autobiography was so graphic about the horrors of slavery it helped to inspre the abolitioniist movement
He was a primary source who experienced the horrors of slavery firsthand
He gave a firsthand account of how slavery actually was in Africa vs slavery in the New World
All are correct
How did the Triangular Trade Route that transported slaves get its name?
Sailors used a triangular shaped tool to map the stars.
When you outline the route from Europe to Africa and to the Americas it looks like a triangle.
The maps that the sailors used to navigate the waters looked like a Triangle
All are correct.
What was true about how most people were grouped African Societies:
By their age
By their gender
The older people were held in the highest esteem
All are correct
The date that most historians refer to when they discuss Africa before and after the Transatlantic slave trade is:
1400
1500
1600
1492
Of the 10 to 16 Million Africans who survived the voyage to the New World one-third landed in ____________.
U.S.
Caribbean Islands
Brazil
India
60 to 70% of the 10-16 million enslaved Africans worked on (Select the BEST Answer)
Sugar plantations in the Caribbean.
ugar Plantations in the U.S.
Sugar Plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean
Sugar plantations in Brazil
By 1860 two thirds of all New World Slaves were living in:
Cuba
Brazil and the Caribbean
Haiti
The American South
The ___________________ adopted a two-category system of race in which any person with a black mother was automatically considered black.
Spanish
Portuguese
British
American South
It was particularly dangerous and remarkable that Harriet Tubman was able to lead groups of people to freedom because she:
Was blind in one eye and she could not read
he was deaf and could not hear
She was subject to having fainting spells
She was lame.
This act that passed in 1850 allowed slave owners to go to free states and get slaves who had run away states.
The Runaway Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law
None are correct
Only about 6% of all Africans shipped to the Americas were sent to:
North America
Brazil
West Indies
None are correct
In this poem what is Phillis Wheatley really trying to say? (select all that are true)
She is completely happy about how she was taken from her Godless country and brought to a new world so she could learn about God and be able to read and write.
She is happy she has learned to read and learn about the Christian God, but she is not happy with the circumstances behind it.
Although people think Black people are cursed, they are actually noble and as worthy of salvation by God.
one are correct
Phyllis Wheatley was:
A Writer
So inspirational she once met George Washington
A Brilliant scholar who spoke Latin and Greek
So inspirational she once met George Washington
All are true
In the song Swing Low Sweet Chariot what is the hidden meaning of the word "home"
Heaven
Freedom in a non-slave state
A slave cabin
None are correct
This abolitionist believed literacy was the pathway from slavery to Freedom
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
Angelina Grimke
John Brown
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What event ended indentured servitude in North America and led to the increased importation of, and reliance upon, enslaved Africans to do both manual and skilled labor
Shay's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion
The Fugitive Slave Act
None are correct
How did the 3/5ths Compromise help to cause the U.S. Civil War?
White slaveowners were afraid that as more free states were admitted to the Union they would lose influence and power.
White slaveowners feared that as new free states were admitted to the Union that they would eventually end slavery and their advantage in the House of Representatives.
It allowed a free white slave owning minority to dominate northern states, even though they had less free voting people.
All are correct
The Fugitive Slave Act contributed to the Civil War by:
Making more Americans aware of how cruel slavery was and more of them became abolitionists which angered the South.
Making more Americans aware of how profitable it was to own and keep slaves.
It caused the South to release their slaves as an act of Good Will.
All are correct
How did the publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin lead to the Civil War? (Select ALL that are correct)
It turned many Northerners into pro-slavery advocates who felt it was cruel to interfere with the Confederacy.
It turned many Northerners against slavery since many had never experienced it personally.
It revealed the horrors of slavery and turned fence sitters into abolitionists.
It revealed the horrors of slavery and turned fence sitters into abolitionists.
Bleeding Kansas helped to lead to the Civil War by doing what?
The discovery of oil "bleeding all over Kansas" caused conflict over who would control the area with it's vast natural resources.
General George Sumner led an expedition to kill all pro slavery advocates which angered the south.
Pro Slavery and anti-Slavery advocates clashed in violent riots that over whether the state would be slave or free.
Pro slavery advocates were leaving Kansas and going to the South to Promote Slavery
How did John Brown's failed raid on Harper's Ferry help to lead to the Civil War
It helped make any further accommodation between the North and South Impossible
It showed that violence should be avoided when it came to states being slave or free.
It showed that the anti slavery cause was weak and if war happened pro slavery forces would win.
All are correct
The election of President Lincoln caused the Southern States to secede and form the Confederate States of America because they believed the anti-slavery Lincoln was going to end slavery after he was elected.
True
False
This organization was largely responsible for spreading the myth of the Lost Cause for states rights concerning Southern Involvedment in the Civil War.
United Daughters of the American Revolution
United Sons of the Confederacy
United Daughters of the Confederacy
None are correct
What did Frederick Douglass worry would happen if people forgot the true cause of the Civil War?
They would still learn that slavery was the cause of the Civil War
No one would teach the Civil War in schools
People would not protect the rights of Black Americans
People would not protect the rights of Black Americans
African Americans Celebrate Juneteenth because on June 19, 1865 slaves in the State of Texas found out that they had been freed because of the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation.
True
False
This amendment said that all black people who had formerly been slaves were free.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
None are correct
This amendment said that all black people who had formerly been slaves were citizens of the United States.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
None are correct
In truth, the Emancipation Proclamation was actually ______a______ because it only applied to places where the Union had _____b______ control.
a. valid
b. full
a. invalid
b. no
a. invalid
b. partial
a. effective
b. full
Which definition best describes Sharecropping?
A system where freed slaves were able to live on the former slave owners land in exchange for a portion for a portion of the crop they produced.
A system where freed African Slaves became permanently in debt to their former slaveowners and tied to the land because they were not paid in cash and could never pay off their debt
both are correct
none are correct
Peonage also known, also known as debt slavery, was a system where people were forced to work in order to pay off a debt. Peonage was made illegal at the end of the Mexican American War because the Mexicans practiced it in Texas and the U.S. did not want peonage to continue.
True
False
At the end of the Civil War, many southern locations made laws against vagrancy, walking along railroad tracks, speaking loudly, etc. that: (Select ALL that are TRUE!!!)
Were applied to all people equally
Made it hard for white people to get jobs because it was so cheap to hire black people
All are true
None are true
Over 80% of people being arrested for crimes in the south were black because:
(select all that are correct)
Freed African Americans had no jobs and they had to steal and rob to survive.
White people were decent honest Christian folk who did not commit crimes.
White planters, miners, and factory owners wanted cheap labor to replace slaves.
All are correct
The ruling in this Supreme Court case that made it legal for governments to oppress African Americans and deny them their rights by segregating them was called:
Brown vs. the Board of Education
Plessy vs. Brown
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Jim Crow Ruling
The Supreme Court decision that legalized segregation said as long as their was a clearly defined difference in the quality of what was provided to African Americans and whites it was acceptable to separate them.
True
False
The Supreme Court decision that ended the Jim Crow laws that said separating the races was fine as long as everything was equal was called:
Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy vs. Brown
Brown vs. The Board of Education
None are correct
Homer Plessy initiated his lawsuit because:
He was forced to ride on the back of the bus
He was denied entrance to a restaurant
He was forced to ride in a blacks only train car
All are correct
Most of the corrupt peonage occurred in concert with southern state and county government because in the south black men were picked up for minor crimes and trumped up charges and when faced with staggering fines and court fees found themselves in a continuous work without pay cycle
True
False
Fortunately, peonage or debt bondage is now illegal and it no longer occurs anywhere in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world.
True
False
It was actually better to be a ____a____ than to be a ___b____working in a mine or a chain gang than to because a ___c___ was a valuable piece of property so you received regular food and decent care.
a. slave
b. convict
c. slave
a. convict
b. slave
c. convict
a. convict
b. slave
c. slave
none are correct
The Reconstruction lasted from the ___a___ of the Civil War until 1877 when the ___b___left
a. End
b. Union Soldiers who oppressed freed black peop;e
a. beginning
b. Union Soldiers who protected freed black people
a. end
b. Union Soldiers who protected freed black people
None are correct
Though African Americans saw many of the gains made during Reconstruction rolled back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the actions of these early African American leaders inspired those who followed them and carved a path for civil rights leaders in the mid-twentieth century
True
False
The first African-American elected to serve in the U.S. Senate was
Hiram Revels
Robert Elliot
Joseph Rainey
All are correct
None are correct
The first African-American elected to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives was
Hiram Revels
Robert Elliot
Joseph Rainey
All are correct
None are correct
He was an important African American politician in South Carolina who was born in England. He was elected to both the state house and state assembly before he won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870.
Hiram Revels
Robert Elliot
Joseph Rainey
All are correct
None are correct
This Supreme Court decision helped to support terrorist groups that used violence and murder to roll back many of the advances made by African Americans during the Reconstruction
Pleszey vs. Ferguzson
Brown vs. the Board of Education
All are correct
None are correct
The Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case Plessy argued that Louisiana's separate car act violated the:
The Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case Plessy argued that Louisiana's separate car act violated the:
14th Amendment that says states may not “deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
15th Amendment that says states may not “deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
All are correct
One of the organizations that used violence and murder to terrorize black people into not voting or exercising their rights was the:
Klu Klux Clan
Ku Kluz Klan
Klu Kluck Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Founded the Black Star Line and he wanted African-Americans to go back to Africa
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Supported Socialist/Communist movements because he wanted African-Americans to have the freedoms & rights promised by that type of Society (select 2)
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
To teach him a life lesson, his father made him dig a grave, get into the grave, and then left him to find his own way out to teach him independence.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Helped to found the N.A.A.C.P
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Pan Africanism is:
The belief that all Africans are united by a common god and religion
The belief that all Africans are insufficient and should spread out around the world to learn ways to improve themselves
The idea that peoples of African descent have common interests and should be unified to ensure and protect their rights.
All are correct
Attended a Pan-African Congress in 1945 that also included the future president of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
They both believed that blacks and whites could live separately and independent of one another (select 2)
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Created the concept of Pan Africanism
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Was a pioneer in the field of Sociology, adding data collection and the concept of double consciousness among other things
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Believed that African-Americans should become farmers, and tradesmen and focused on vocational studies. He believed that once blacks proved their usefulness to Whites they would eventually earn their rights.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a union for black porters who worked on the nation's railroads.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Had the first March on Washington and he helped to inspire and organize the second March on Washington in 1963 where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous I have a dream speech.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
When he arrived in Harlem, he was a big supporter of Marcus Garvey, however, he eventually turned against Marcus Garvey.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
______1_______wrote the book The Souls of Black Folk and ______2______wrote the book Up From Slavery.
1. Marcus Garvey
2. Booker T. Washington
1. Booker T. Washington
2. WEB Dubois
1. WEB Dubois
2. A. Phillip Randolph
1. WEB Dubois
2. Booker T. Washington
He was the first Principal of the Tuskegee Institute, an African American College
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Who said, "In all things that are purely social," he said, blacks and whites "can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folk criticized this leader.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Was inspired by Booker T. Washington's autobiographical book Up from Slavery's message of self sufficiency and social segregation.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
He believed that vocational education to the exclusion of the liberal arts would deprive African Americans of the well-trained leaders they sorely needed in a time of increasing discrimination and racial violence.
W.E.B. Du Bois
A. Phillip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
The Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court Decision decided:
Black people were allowed to ride the same busses as white people
Black people were allowed to drink from the same drinking fountains as white people.
Segregation among racial lines in public schools was illegal.
All are correct
Although indirectly, the Supreme Court Decision that Brown vs. the Board of Education challenged was:
The Plessy vs Ferguson decision that said separation was legal, as long as it was equal.
Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that said blacks and whites could not attend the same schools.
Browder vs. Gale Decision.
None are correct
The Brown vs. the Board of Education decision was significant because it:
Determined that all forms of racial discrimination were illegal
Decided that it was not worth the effort to challenge civil rights decisions because nothing would change.
Opened the door for challenging other acts of racial discrimination.
All are correct
The lead attorney for the Browns in the Brown vs. the Board of Education lawsuit was NAACP lawyer:
Jackie Childs
Thurgood Marshall
Johnny Cochran
Benjamin Crump
Emmitt Till was:
A 14 year old black boy from Missisissippi who was murdered in Chicago
A 14 year old black boy from Chicago who was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman.
A 14 year old young black boy from Chicago who was murdered in Mississippi for making sexual advances at at White Woman.
All are correct
After Emmit Till's murder they wanted to send his body home to Chicago, however, his mother Mamie Till Mobley, insisted that he be buried in Mississippi
True
False
What happened when Mamie Till Mobley decided to publically show her son's body
It horrified a lot of people.
It so upset people that they became angry and decided to do something to keep it from happening again.
It made people realize that anyone could be killed in the South, not just grown black men.
All are correct
How many people showed up to Emmitt Till's Funeral?
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
What was Rosa Parks tired of when she refused to give up her seat to a white patron on a Montgomery, AL bus?
Working all day
Of having tired feet because she had to stand all day.
Working as a secretary for the NAACP and not doing anything different.
Oppression, discrimination, and unfair arrest and murder of black people.
Who was Rosa Parks grandfather according to people in the area?
A man who could pass for white
Someone who wasn't to be messed with who carried a gun
Someone who taught Rosa to believe in herself and to do what was right
All are correct
When Rosa Parks met her husband he was afraid to challenge authority and he did not want to get involved in challenging the racial system they lived in.
True
False
After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus what happened?
She was praised on her job and given a raise.
The city of Montgomery immediately decided to integrate their busses.
She was fired from her job, and her house had to be boarded up, and she eventually had to move
None are correct
Rosa Parks met a young preacher who preached at a church in Montgomery who eventually led the movement to integrate the busses in Montgomery, AL. His name was:
Marvin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Lufer King James
None are correct
The church that Martin Luther King worked at in Montgomery, Al was called:
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
Dexter Avenue A.M.E.
Ebenezer Baptist Church
The March on Washington was the event that introduced the world to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
True
False
Martin Luther king Jr. graduated high school, and began college, when he was:
14 years old
15 years old
16 years old
17 years old
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was in favor of non-violence for African Americans fighting for their rights because:
He felt violence was morally wrong
He believed violence only created more problems.
He believed black people did not have the means to successfully use violence to achieve their rights because they were severely outnumbered and lacked the resources.
All are correct
Dr. Martin Luther King says that many whites who supported them in the South were against the violence happening to blacks, however:
They were fully committed to full equality and rights for African Americans
They wanted to have black people as their neighbors and thy wanted their children to marry black people.
He knew that Whites were not interested in full equality in housing, income, and education.
All are correct
What did European peasants who immigrated to American receive that was not given to recently freed African-Americans whose ancestors were brought to America against their will?
Free or cheap land and resources to make a living
40 acres and a mule
Instant citizenship
All are correct
What does King say are the three evils of American society?
Racism, Fanatics, and Pathology
rugs Alcohol, Depression
Racism, Exploitation, and Militarism
Guns, Racism & Violence
Malcom X's father believed in Civil Rights for African Americans and he was possibly murdered for following the teachings of:
WEB Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
A. Phillip Randolph
What was different about the experiences Malcom X and Dr. Martin Luther King had growing up that shaped their strategies for improving the lives of Black Americans?
King had a poor childhood and Malcom X was the child of an upper middle class family
King witnessed the murder of his father because he hit a white man, and Malcom X had a good relationship with moderate whites.
King had a very gilded childhood from a prosperous family while Malcom X was scarred by racial trauma from a young age
None are correct
Malcom X, Marcus Garvey, and Booker T. Washington all believed:
In Whites and Blacks working together and sharing their resources
That black people should have their own businesses, communities, and that they can live separate from Whites
That violence was the only solution to the problems that existed between Blacks and Whites
All are correct
What two African-American leaders in the early part of the twentieth century had similar background differences to Dr. King and Malcom X that shaped their strategies and beliefs.
WEB Dubois and Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey
A. Phillip Randolph and Booker T. Washington
None are correct
This Civil Rights leader encouraged Martin Luther King to give up armed bodyguards and to fully embrace non-violence
Bayard Rustin
Clifford Durr
Malcom X
Stokely Carmichael
This Civil Rights leader believed that African Americans should use weapons to defend themselves
Bayard Rustin
Stokely Carmichael
Dr. Martin Luther King
Clifford Durr
An increasing number of young black women and men joined the Black Power Movement because:
They felt that the non-violent protests did not go far enough and process was slow
Protesting segregation failed to address poverty and powerlessness
Dr. King exemplified non-violence, and he was murdered...so the belief in non-violent protest was dead
all are correct
Malcom X and this black leaders teachings help had the most influence on the Black Power Movement
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
A Phillip Randolph
All are correct
This Civil Rights leader said "We want Black Power" after he was harassed and arrested while continuing the March against fear. This helped to give the new movement a name.
Martin Luther King
Stokely Carmichael
Malcom X
All are correct
Dr. King finally agreed with Stokely Carmichael's view that violence and separatism were a viable path forward following Bloody Sunday in Selma and after the assassination of Malcom X.
True
False
How did Malcolm X's beliefs differ from those of Dr. Martin Luther King?
Believed in change "by any means necessary"
Member of Nation of Islam
More militant and radical
All are true
How did the SNCC's approach to civil rights change as Stokely Carmichael assumed leadership in 1966?
He became members of the Nation of Islam
Called for a civil war
He became more radical and militant
Embraced black separatism
Why did civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, and John Lewis oppose the Black Power movement?
It could be misrepresented as only supporting violence
The slogan was an unfortunate choice of words
It could be misinterpreted and which could lead to racial division within the Civil Rights Movement
All of the above
Which two leaders formed the Black Panther party in Oakland, CA in 1966? (Choose 2)
Chadwick Boseman
Huey Newton
Stokely Carmichael
Bobby Seale
In the late 1960s, all of the following issues led to major divisions in US society and politics EXCEPT:
Illegal immigration
Vietnam War
Generation gap
Racial tensions
