African American History Study Guide Flashcards

Flashcards based on the African American History Study Guide, covering topics from ancient Africa to the early 20th century.

The second largest continent, comprised of 54 countries, is .

Africa

According to the Out-of-Africa Model, all humans descend from a woman in approximately 200,000 years ago.

Africa

_, which emerged in the Nile Valley around 3100 BCE, was known as the 'Gift of the Nile' due to its fertile soil.

Ancient Egypt

writing and the use of were significant achievements of Ancient Egypt.

Hieroglyphic, papyrus

is located between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers.

Mesopotamia

emphasized the Black African roots of Egypt and African contributions to civilization.

Afrocentrism

The West African kingdom of _ was founded by the Soninke and gained wealth through the gold-salt trade.

Ghana

made a famous hajj to Mecca and significantly impacted Cairo's economy with gold.

Mansa Musa

The Songhai Empire fell in 1591 to _ invaders.

Moroccan

converted to Christianity and opposed the Portuguese slave trade in the Kongo kingdom.

Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I)

The were the first to participate in the African slave trade; others included Spanish, British, and Dutch.

Portuguese

The was the Atlantic journey endured by enslaved Africans, characterized by brutal conditions and high death rates.

Middle Passage

During the '' period in the Caribbean, enslaved people were trained for plantation labor.

Seasoning

_ wrote about his kidnapping and voyage into slavery.

Olaudah Equiano

__, in New England, was small-scale and mostly domestic.

Slavery

__ became a landowner in Virginia after being formerly enslaved.

Anthony Johnson

Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation offered what to enslaved people who joined the British?

Freedom

The ___ freed slaves in Confederate states still in rebellion.

Emancipation Proclamation

The ___ was created in 1865 to aid freedpeople with education, legal support, and other services.

Freedmen’s Bureau

After emancipation formerly enslaved people used to find lost relatives.

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The __ race riot in Atlanta, GA (1906) was triggered by false accusations of Black men attacking white women.

Atlanta

The race riot in Springfield, IL (1908) led to the founding of the __.

NAACP

In Houston, TX (1917), Black soldiers retaliated after __.

police brutality

In Chicago, IL (1919), __ was stoned to death for crossing a 'segregation line' at the beach.

Eugene Williams

The Greenwood District, also known as "__", was burned in Tulsa, OK (1921).

Black Wall Street

__ promoted vocational education and accepted segregation (Atlanta Compromise).

Booker T. Washington

__ advocated for immediate civil rights and co-founded the NAACP.

W.E.B. DuBois

The term _ refers to property and was commonly used to describe enslaved people.

Chattel

The _ was a federal agency assisting freedpeople after the Civil War.

Freedmen’s Bureau