African american history exam review

Although euro-american thinkers reclassified egyptians caucasian people starting in the 19th century, ancient Greek writers described the egyptians this way

Black skinned with wooly hair

When about was Nubia settled

8000 B.C.E.

Nubia’s relationship with Egypt can best be described as____

complex

What technologies emerged among the Nok people of Nigeria as early as 500 B.C.E

iron smelting and forging technology

What people’s migration pattern may have been shaped by climate change along the Sahara

Bantu

Which of the following resources was in ample supply in Nubia

Gold

Which Nubian king is the first to be mentioned by name in any written documents

Alara

In the Nubian war with the Egyptians, Kashta pushed Nubia’s borders north and captured what major egyptian city

Thebes

In the 2nd century AD, the nubians changed over time using_______ to a new meroitic writing system

Egyptian Hirogrifics

What is the popular theory as to how the Kingdom of Kush came to an end

Axum invaded and captured Murow

The Kingdom of Benin has a monument showing a warrior standing triumph over

British Soldiers

Due to its location what city was conquered and contested numerous times in history

Djenne

What figure of what animal meant something bad was coming to a person in West Africa

Leopard

What was built under cliffs that helped preserve them and the food they stored

the granaries

Thousands of african artifacts are housed at the

British museum

Which religion was the primary choice of west africa’s commercial elite

islam

Most people in Africa lived in kingdoms of modest size city-states, or governed villages (also called_______)

Stateless Societies

West africa societies placed wealth and power in what

people

How did african rulers use slaves to bolster their militaries

sale of slaves to purchase

What kinds of crimes in west africa could result in someone being sentenced to slavery

adultry, sorcery, and murder

Europeans had little knowledge of the African coast south of what

Cape of bojador

The portuguese were able to navigate the dangerous winds along the African coast due to what ships

Karacks and parables

The expeditions into africa by what country marked the start of atlantic slave trade

Portugual

How did the portuguese crown address the issues they were having in getting slaves from africa

negotiatied with african rulers

Which pope issued the decree that indians were rational beings and could be converted leaving africans as their sole source of slaves

pope paul II

By 1830 ________ was the only northern state that still had a significant number of slaves.

New Jersey

French writer Alexis de Tocqueville noted in 1831 that “prejudice of the race appears to be stronger in the states that have ___________ then those where it still exists”

abolished slavery

Which of the following is one of the 5 states that had Black Laws that discouraged or prohibited free blacks from settling in those states

Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois,and Ohio

The free blacks encountered economic discrimination while competing with working-class whites and ___________ for jobs

immigrants

During the 1840s and 1850s anti immigrant, anti-catholic “____________”won political offices in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania

Know nothings

In 1830 the first in a series of gatherings that became known as the “Black Convention Movement” occured in what city

Philadelphia

Most black newspaper needed what to survive

White wealthy people

Who wrote the book My bondage My freedom

Fredrick Douglass

What ex-slave from New York won her and her son’s freedom in court and became a lecturer, spiritualist, and preacher

sojourner truth

What man led the moral suasion wing of the abolitionist movement

william lloyd garrison

Which political party received a boost in popularity due to Texas being admitted to the Union as a slave state

liberty party

What was wilmot proviso

An unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the U.S congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican american war

Which supreme court case ruled personal liberty laws were unconstitutional

prigg v. pennsylvania

After the fugitive slave act of 1850 was passed _________ which had at one time been all black became increasingly interracial

vigilance commities

What congressman assisted in the defense of 3 white quakers and 35 blacks who were arrested for the death of a slave holder and his son in september of 1851

Thaddeus Stevens

After John Brown and his sons massacred five pro-slavery men, Kansas became known as” _________ Kansas”

Bleeding Kansas

John Brown at his trial: “Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, I ________”

submit

How many slaveholding states did Abraham Lincoln win

0

Fredrick Douglass: “Mr lincoln is a genuine representative of American prejudice and Negro ________, and far more concerned for the preservation of slavery then for any principle of justice and humanity”

hatred

Which amendment to the Constitution banned slavery

13th amendment

Lincoln’s plan for reconstructing the south could best be described as

lenient

After lincoln’s assassination Andrew Johnson created a plan that was very similar to lincoln’s plan, How was it different

Excluded high ranking confederates and wealthy landowners

The 14th amendment

established former slaves as U.S citizens

How were tens of thousands of african americans lost during the war

they were fighting in the war

Which of the following is one of the schools created by african americans

fisk university, hampton institute,and howard university

Which of the following promised slaves 40 acres and a mule if they joined the union army

general sherman

Frustrated white southerners formed vigilante groups and violence to intimidate blacks, which of the following is one of those vigilante groups

KKK

Which of the following is a reason blacks escaped the south

violence, poverty, and lynchings

The US saw a large number of immigrants from europe in 1914. these numbers dropped in 1915 due to what world event

WWI

__________ clubs were common in the south, helping newcomers find a place to stay and pooled resources to help family members and friends move north

Migration

a majority of the blacks in america lived in the south until what decade

1960s

For many blacks their exit from the south reminded them of what biblical story

exodus;moses

What well known clubs were initiated by the Urban League to help black urban youth

Big brothers and Big sisters

Long established chicago churches like _________(the city’s oldest black church) reached out to black southern migrants to join their congregation

Quinn chapel AME

What services did the church provide the southern black families that relocated to chicago

Employment services, transport services, and helped find homes

How did the formal christian worship services that middle-class blacks were accustomed with change

More emotionally intense

How did packinghouse managers use black migrant workers in 1921

To replace striking workers

Who allowed local NAACP and national urban league to use their business space to hold their meetings and gatherings

black funeral directors

___________ provided jobs and an avenue for activism among black women in chicago

Beauty culture

At the start of WWI, blacks, made up 10% of the US population and ____% of the draftees

13%

Most black soldiers during WWI worked in support units responsible for doing what

loading and unloading supplies

What replaced guns in the combat training of black soldiers

shovels and pick axes

What award did the 369th regiment receive

croix de guerre

Who coined the phrase “red summer” describing the racial violence of 1919

James weldon johnson

What caused a white mob to attack detroit physician Ossian Sweet

moved his family into a white neighborhood

Chicago’s urban league was created during what event

riots 1919

How did James Weldon Johnson increase the membership of the NAACP

$1 membership

Marcus Garvey started what civil rights organization

UNIA

Which of the following was a writer during the Harlem Renaissance

Langston hughes, Claude Mckay, and Cullen

Which of the following was a jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance

Louis Armstrong, duke ellington, ma rainy