AP AFAMS - Unit 1.1 + 1.2 Quiz

what is African-american studies? (4 parts)

1. History, art, literature from the people of africa

2. African Diaspora : where the African experience spread

3. How? : historians, writings, artists work (how we know)

4. continuation of African experience - where it’s going/will go

key questions

1. who are you? : where do I come from/where can i trace my history

2. what is your background?

countee cullen

harlem rennisance connections : poet/writer : “what is africa to me?”

Phyliss Wheatly

poet - kidnapped - american revloution icon - “shaped by” (shaped by where I came from)

John Russwurm

1st black newspaper - traced his own culture back to egypt/ethoipia

civil rights movement

movement of african americans to stand up for their rights against oppression - protest sand marches for freedom

black power movement

movement emegring w/ frustartion of civil rights movement - encoirged african americans to create their own instutuons and become economically independent - self determination + racial pride

black campus movement

black power movement applied to higher education (college) - creating black curriculum at college campuses - including white campuses - EX. san-fran state college 1968 : catalyst of black campus movement - origin of black studies @univeristy and student-led strikes

savannah grasslands

supports animal + plant life, almost ½ of africa is grassland, zebras, grains (wheat/flax), supports population growth (people,animals,plants)

dessert (sahara)

hot, camels = transport, sahara = largest desert, little vegetation (plats that do live here don’t require much water - cacti), little water sources

Mediterranean

moderate climate, not extreme, farming sustaiable, animal and plant life sustained, wet winters

tropical rainforests

rich in animal and plant life - very unique

semiarid/sahel

transition climate between dessert/savannah - flat and barren land, moisture

5 major climate zones

1. desert (saharah)

2. Medieteranian

3. savannah/grasslands

4. tropical rainforest

5. semiarid - sahel

river systems (5)

1. Nile river

2. Congo river

3. The Orange River

4. Niger River

5. Zambezi Rie=ver

oceans (2) surrounding

1. Indian ocean (right)

2. Atlantic Ocean (left)

other bodies of water (4 - 2 sea, 2 other)

1. medertarian sea

2. red sea

3. suez canal

4. lake victoia

deserts (3)

1. kalahari desert

2. Sahara desert

3. namib desert

mountains (2)

1. atlas mountains

2. west african mountains

TorF : descendants of africa generally come from one ethnic group

false

TorF : most modern day african americnas cannot trace their ancestry to specific group

True

TorF : the poem that phyliss wheatly wrote about her herritage is “let the cage bird sing”

False

TorF : russwurm created the first black newspaper

True

TorF : dispoaric africans traditionally embrace a transnational homeland and lineage

True

TorF : europeans in the past reffered to african as a “hidden gem”

false : the dark continent

TorF : africa is the largest continent

false

TorF : africa is unique b/c it lies in four different hemispheres

true

TorF : Christianity was not a religion practiced in africa

false

TorF : africa is number three in human habitation

false : it is number one