HILD 7A Midterm

 In this system, a person is deprived of his or her status as a human and reduced to being property/commodity

Chattel Slavery

This country begins to explore the West Coast of Africa in the 1400s

Portugal

Vast interconnectivity between peoples, societies, governments, and economies, from all corners of the world

Globalization

A line of slaves chained together for transport

Coffee

Slaves born in the Americas who taught the new arrivals how to act and labor of being a slave in work gangs

Atlantic creoles

The white abolitionist movement began with this group of people

Quakers

More than half of slaves who ran away a long distance headed to

Souther cities

With this proclamation during the American Revolution, the British Royal Governor of Virginia offered freedom to the enslaved people in Virginia who left “masters” to fight for the British

Dunmore Proclamation of 1775

Organization founded in 1816 that sought to abolish slavery gradually and send emancipated slaves to Liberia

American Colonization Society

Name three African American abolitionist and two White abolitionists

African American:

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Martin Delany

• James McCrummell

• Robert Purvis

• Maria Stewart

White:

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Lucretia Mott

The Emancipation Proclamation was enacted on Jan 1st of what year?

1863

What are the three periods of Reconstruction referred to as and who was in charge of overseeing each of them?

• War-time Reconstruction - Abraham Lincoln

• Presidential Reconstruction - Andrew Johnson

• Congressional/Radical Reconstruction - Congress

What was the common tactic used to disenfranchise African Americans?

Poll taxes

____ emerges as dominant form of black labor organization by early 1870s

Sharecropping

What year was the Ku Klux Klan founded?

1866

Name two economic push factors and two economic pull factors that prompted the Great Migration

• Push: lower wages, boll weevil, floods, Jim Crow

• Pull: higher wages, more jobs, labor shortages

Name of California town founded by an African American in 1908

Allensworth

This was the most popular New Deal program amongst African Americans

WPA (Work Progress Administration)

The African American unemployment rate is at approximately what percent in 1932

50%

What is the name of the song about lynching that Billie Holiday sang?

Strange Fruit

Which former slave wrote under the penance Linda Brent?

Harriet Jacobs

Frederick Douglass asserted that the Fourth of July holiday was ___ because of the existence of slavery

hypocritical

This individual encouraged African Americans to strive for economic rather than immediate social and political gains in his Atlanta Exposition Address

Booker T. Washington

What changes on the Gold Coast of Africa does Stephanie Smallwood describe as facilitating the growth of the slave trade?

• European firearms

• Rise of kingship states

• Increasing in state-building wars

• Atlantic trade

In the reading from Children of God’s by Conrad, a man named Baquaqua describes being captured and sent to ____

Brazil

What were three different types of resistance to slavery? Give an example of each from the readings

• Refusing to work

• Running away - Harriet Tubman

• Armed revolt - Nat Turner

• Covert (day-to-day)

• Legal resistance - Ida B. Wells