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WorksheetsAA History Exam Review 25
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 35mins
Who led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and organized nonviolent protests for civil rights?
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Huey Newton
Which organization was youth-led and focused on sit-ins, freedom rides, and grassroots organizing?
NAACP
NOI
SNCC
BPP
What was the main focus of the Black Panther Party?
Promoting vocational education
Advocating for African American rights and self-defense against police brutality
Organizing nonviolent protests
Promoting Black empowerment and separation
Who was a former enslaved person and a powerful speaker against slavery?
Harriet Tubman
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
Jackie Robinson
Which leader helped enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Harriet Tubman
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Who was the co-founder of the NAACP and fought for higher education for Black Americans?
Booker T. Washington
Huey Newton
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jackie Robinson
What is Martin Luther King Jr. famous for?
Founding the Tuskegee Institute
"I Have a Dream" speech
Co-founding the Black Panther Party
Breaking the color line in baseball
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era?
Malcolm X
Frederick Douglass
Jackie Robinson
Booker T. Washington
In what year did the murder of Emmett Till occur, which galvanized the Civil Rights Movement?
1954
1955
1956
1957
What event did Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 spark?
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock Nine
Which Supreme Court decision in 1954 declared segregated schools unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Roe v. Wade
Miranda v. Arizona
What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides in 1961?
To integrate lunch counters
To challenge bus station segregation
To protest voting rights
To support labor rights
In which year was the Civil Rights Act, banning segregation and employment discrimination, passed?
1963
1964
1965
1966
What did Washington advocate for in terms of progress for Black Americans?
Immediate demand for civil rights
Gradualism and economic success
Violent protest
Complete separation from white Americans
What was a similarity between Washington and Du Bois in their approach to improving the status of African Americans?
Both believed in immediate demand for civil rights
Both advocated for violent protest
Both worked to improve the status of African Americans
Both supported complete separation from white Americans
What was one of the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1950s?
The end of World War II
The repeal of segregation (Brown v. Board of Education)
The start of the Vietnam War
The establishment of the United Nations
What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?
Southern Peace Corps
NAACP
SNCC
Black Panthers
A belief in multiple Gods
(a)The earliest civilization in Africa, which emerged in the Nile River valley in the fourth millennium BCE
(a)Supports the out of Africa model, suggest all modern humans are descended from a single African woman
(a)The area of West Africa that extendes along the Atlantic coast from Senegambia to the former kingdom of Benin
frorest region
trickster tale
ancient Egypt
homo erectus
Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgramage to Mecca and established trade route to the Middle East
Mansa Musa
Mohammad Ali
Sundiata
Askia Muhammad Toure
African-American scientist who taught himself calculus and trigonometry. He also helped design the capitol in Washington D.C.
Benjamin Banneker
Peter Salem
Venture Smith
Lemuel Hays
Killed in Boston Massacre, black laborer, only African-American person killed in Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
Peter Salem
Prince Hall
Ralph Henry
laws passed in 1767 that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea
Townsend Acts
Sugar Act
Sister Act
Proclamation Act
The slave of Patrick Henry who escaped and fought for the British during the American Revolution
Ralph Henry
Prince Hall
James Forten
Phillis Wheatley
Royal governor of Virginia who issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in Virginia who joined the British army
Lord Dunmore
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
How did an African become enslaved?
A town or village was conquered by another African army
European army raided the African interior searching for people
Africans sold themselves voluntarily
What steps did the Europeans take to reduce the risk of rebellion at the slave factories in Africa?
Slaves were kept drugged and shackled with heavy chains
Families and ethnic groups were separated
Men and women were separated into separate trading towns
What do we learn from the story of John Newton, a British slave ship captain?
Some devoutly Christian people never saw a contradiction between their jobs trading human cargo and their religious beliefs
Christians could be cruel, harsh slavers
Ships' captains filled their ships with slaves quickly, usually in one stop at an African trading center
"Seasoning " is the term used to describe:
the acclimation process of brutalizing and humiliating enslaved Africans to their new life
the process developed by enslaved Africans to preserve food.
the process by which planters separated house servants and field workers
The middle passage was:
the voluntary emigration of Africans to America.
the transporting of captives from Africa to England.
the voyage of African captives from Africa to the
Americas.
the voyage that took rebellious Africans back to Africa
The enslaved Africans:
accepted their plight passively
couldn't rebel because the slave crew had guns
rebelled while boarding the ships and in the open seas
waited until the ships landed and tried running away
What happen to the slaves when they got to the markets?
Traded or sold for goods
Beaten
Chained and Whipped
Packed on ships
Captains carried as many slaves as their ship could hold-> many died on voyage.
Loose packing
tight packing
Captains took fewer slaves in hope to reduce sickness and death....this is called...
Loose packing
Tight packing
Wrap packing
The humiliation of enslaved Africans continued once they ashore, where they were
allowed to rest from the long Atlantic trip before being sold
washed down, greased up and place on the auction block
kept with their tribe and sold as a group
trained how to be a good slave before being sold
Sometimes slaves were sold at auctions; ago other times they were sold in the_________, where buyers rushed into a pen to top or grab the slaves they wanted
scramble
sea dogs
factories
slavers
Fortified structures in which slaves were held in preparation for transport to the Americas
factories
seasoning
middle passage
New Africans
The group of male slaves who did the heavy work of planting and harvesting
great gang
drivers
slavers
indentured servants
The personal property of particular person, in the case of a slave, his or her master
chattel
drivers
planters
Brooks
Slaves who had just survived the middle passage
New Africans
chattel
slavers
great gang
Writer and antislavery activist who was born in 1745 in Nigeria, captured and enslaved when he was ten years old, and wrote about his experiences as a slave after he purchased his own freedom
Odaudah Equiano
Barack Obama
Kunta Kinte
Failed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia's tobacco-planting elite
fictive kin relationships
indentured servants
gang system
Bacon's rebellion
A word for escaped slaves derived form the Spanish word cimarron, meaning wild
maroons
negros
Indians
Individuals of mixed African and European ancestry
negros
slave codes
maroons
mulattoes
