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AA History Exam Review 25

Total questions: 58

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and organized nonviolent protests for civil rights?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Huey Newton

2.

Which organization was youth-led and focused on sit-ins, freedom rides, and grassroots organizing?

a)

NAACP

b)

NOI

c)

SNCC

d)

BPP

3.

What was the main focus of the Black Panther Party?

a)

Promoting vocational education

b)

Advocating for African American rights and self-defense against police brutality

c)

Organizing nonviolent protests

d)

Promoting Black empowerment and separation

4.

Who was a former enslaved person and a powerful speaker against slavery?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Jackie Robinson

5.

Which leader helped enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Malcolm X

6.

Who was the co-founder of the NAACP and fought for higher education for Black Americans?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Huey Newton

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Jackie Robinson

7.

What is Martin Luther King Jr. famous for?

a)

Founding the Tuskegee Institute

b)

"I Have a Dream" speech

c)

Co-founding the Black Panther Party

d)

Breaking the color line in baseball

8.

Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Jackie Robinson

d)

Booker T. Washington

9.

In what year did the murder of Emmett Till occur, which galvanized the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

1954

b)

1955

c)

1956

d)

1957

10.

What event did Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 spark?

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

Little Rock Nine

11.

Which Supreme Court decision in 1954 declared segregated schools unconstitutional?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Roe v. Wade

d)

Miranda v. Arizona

12.

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides in 1961?

a)

To integrate lunch counters

b)

To challenge bus station segregation

c)

To protest voting rights

d)

To support labor rights

13.

In which year was the Civil Rights Act, banning segregation and employment discrimination, passed?

a)

1963

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1966

14.

What did Washington advocate for in terms of progress for Black Americans?

a)

Immediate demand for civil rights

b)

Gradualism and economic success

c)

Violent protest

d)

Complete separation from white Americans

15.

What was a similarity between Washington and Du Bois in their approach to improving the status of African Americans?

a)

Both believed in immediate demand for civil rights

b)

Both advocated for violent protest

c)

Both worked to improve the status of African Americans

d)

Both supported complete separation from white Americans

16.

What was one of the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1950s?

a)

The end of World War II

b)

The repeal of segregation (Brown v. Board of Education)

c)

The start of the Vietnam War

d)

The establishment of the United Nations

17.
During World War II, how did the NAACP help African Americans?
a)
They challenged individual segregation cases in court 
b)
They fought for equal opportunity for African Americans in housing and employment 
c)
They helped African Americans register to vote
d)
all of the above
18.
Which United States president called in federal troops to support African American students at Little Rock Central High School?
a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Dwight Eisenhower 
c)
Lyndon Johnson
d)
Harry S. Truman  
19.
What legal action helped to end segregation in public schools?
a)
Brown v. Board of Education
b)
Hernandez v. Texas 
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson 
d)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
20.
The Montgomery Improvement Association was created in ___________ to support the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
a)
1947
b)
1955  
c)
1965
d)
1896
21.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by ___________________
a)
African Americans to fight for Civil Rights
b)
White Americans to end integration laws
c)
the federal government to fight for Civil Rights 
d)
The state government to end integration laws
22.
An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.
a)
affirmative action
b)
de facto segregation
c)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 
d)
National Organization for Women 
23.

What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?

a)

Southern Peace Corps

b)

NAACP

c)

SNCC

d)

Black Panthers

24.
What West African trade good was used to preserve meat prior to refrigeration? (a)  
Choose from the below words
Ivory
Salt
Gold
Ice
25.

A belief in multiple Gods

(a)  
Choose from the below words
patrilineal
polytheism
animism
Eve hypothesis
26.

The earliest civilization in Africa, which emerged in the Nile River valley in the fourth millennium BCE

(a)  
Choose from the below words
Egypt
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
27.

Supports the out of Africa model, suggest all modern humans are descended from a single African woman

(a)  
Choose from the below words
homo erectus
trickster tale
Eve hypothesis
animism
28.

The area of West Africa that extendes along the Atlantic coast from Senegambia to the former kingdom of Benin

a)

frorest region

b)

trickster tale

c)

ancient Egypt

d)

homo erectus

29.

Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgramage to Mecca and established trade route to the Middle East

a)

Mansa Musa

b)

Mohammad Ali

c)

Sundiata

d)

Askia Muhammad Toure

30.

African-American scientist who taught himself calculus and trigonometry. He also helped design the capitol in Washington D.C.

a)

Benjamin Banneker

b)

Peter Salem

c)

Venture Smith

d)

Lemuel Hays

31.

Killed in Boston Massacre, black laborer, only African-American person killed in Boston Massacre.

a)

Crispus Attucks

b)

Peter Salem

c)

Prince Hall

d)

Ralph Henry

32.

laws passed in 1767 that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea

a)

Townsend Acts

b)

Sugar Act

c)

Sister Act

d)

Proclamation Act

33.

The slave of Patrick Henry who escaped and fought for the British during the American Revolution

a)

Ralph Henry

b)

Prince Hall

c)

James Forten

d)

Phillis Wheatley

34.

Royal governor of Virginia who issued a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in Virginia who joined the British army

a)

Lord Dunmore

b)

George Washington

c)

Alexander Hamilton

d)

Aaron Burr

35.

How did an African become enslaved?

a)

A town or village was conquered by another African army

b)

European army raided the African interior searching for people

c)

Africans sold themselves voluntarily

36.

What steps did the Europeans take to reduce the risk of rebellion at the slave factories in Africa?

a)

Slaves were kept drugged and shackled with heavy chains

b)

Families and ethnic groups were separated

c)

Men and women were separated into separate trading towns

37.

What do we learn from the story of John Newton, a British slave ship captain?

a)

Some devoutly Christian people never saw a contradiction between their jobs trading human cargo and their religious beliefs

b)

Christians could be cruel, harsh slavers

c)

Ships' captains filled their ships with slaves quickly, usually in one stop at an African trading center

38.

"Seasoning " is the term used to describe:

a)

the acclimation process of brutalizing and humiliating enslaved Africans to their new life

b)

the process developed by enslaved Africans to preserve food.

c)

the process by which planters separated house servants and field workers

39.

The middle passage was:

a)

the voluntary emigration of Africans to America.

b)

the transporting of captives from Africa to England.

c)

the voyage of African captives from Africa to the

Americas.

d)

the voyage that took rebellious Africans back to Africa

40.

The enslaved Africans:

a)

accepted their plight passively

b)

couldn't rebel because the slave crew had guns

c)

rebelled while boarding the ships and in the open seas

d)

waited until the ships landed and tried running away

41.
What is the Middle Passage?
a)
Water Route Through North America
b)
European slave trade with India
c)
European Slave trade with North America
d)
European slave trade with the Americas
42.

What happen to the slaves when they got to the markets?

a)

Traded or sold for goods

b)

Beaten

c)

Chained and Whipped

d)

Packed on ships

43.

Captains carried as many slaves as their ship could hold-> many died on voyage.

a)

Loose packing

b)

tight packing

44.

Captains took fewer slaves in hope to reduce sickness and death....this is called...

a)

Loose packing

b)

Tight packing

c)

Wrap packing

45.

The humiliation of enslaved Africans continued once they ashore, where they were

a)

allowed to rest from the long Atlantic trip before being sold

b)

washed down, greased up and place on the auction block

c)

kept with their tribe and sold as a group

d)

trained how to be a good slave before being sold

46.

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

a)

scramble

b)

sea dogs

c)

factories

d)

slavers

47.

Fortified structures in which slaves were held in preparation for transport to the Americas

a)

factories

b)

seasoning

c)

middle passage

d)

New Africans

48.

The group of male slaves who did the heavy work of planting and harvesting

a)

great gang

b)

drivers

c)

slavers

d)

indentured servants

49.

The personal property of particular person, in the case of a slave, his or her master

a)

chattel

b)

drivers

c)

planters

d)

Brooks

50.

Slaves who had just survived the middle passage

a)

New Africans

b)

chattel

c)

slavers

d)

great gang

51.

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

a)

Odaudah Equiano

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Kunta Kinte

52.
Which of these sources would be the MOST RELIABLE for finding out "how did people experience the Middle Passage"?
a)
A Portuguese history textbook from 1994
b)
An autobiography written by a former slave in 1789
c)
The journal of a slave ship captain written in 1732
d)
An American history textbook published in Georgia in 1850
53.
According to both the slave ship doctor (Falconbridge) and the former slave (Equiano), what happened to slaves who refused to eat?
a)
They were mercilessly punished (burned or beaten)
b)
They were thrown overboard to the sharks
c)
They starved to death & avoided working in America
d)
They were given twice as much to eat the next day
54.
Which of these details does the slave ship doctor (Falconbridge) tell that the former slave (Equiano) leaves out?
a)
Slaves who refused to eat were punished
b)
The slave ships smelled very awful (loathsome or disgusting)
c)
Slaves were tied or shackled to each other in groups
d)
The disease that killed many slaves was called "the flux"
55.
Which of these details does the former slave tell but that the doctor leaves out?
a)
Slaves who refused to eat were punished
b)
The slave ships smelled very awful (loathsome or disgusting)
c)
Slaves were tied or shackled to each other in groups
d)
The slave's experience was so bad that he wished for death ("the last friend")
56.

Failed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia's tobacco-planting elite

a)

fictive kin relationships

b)

indentured servants

c)

gang system

d)

Bacon's rebellion

57.

A word for escaped slaves derived form the Spanish word cimarron, meaning wild

a)

maroons

b)

negros

c)

Indians

58.

Individuals of mixed African and European ancestry

a)

negros

b)

slave codes

c)

maroons

d)

mulattoes