African American Experience Through Reconstruction Final

Where was Phyllis Wheatley born?

Africa

Wheatley is most known for her ability to…

write poetry

What about Wheatley made her life itself a critique against the system of white supremacy?

Challenging the stereotype that people of African descent were stupid, couldn’t think on a high level, had no intellectual property, people did not think she could write her own poems

The idea that there are certain rights that ever person is born with is called __ rights

natural

African Americans were unaware of the debates about freedom and liberty that were being discussed by whites in the Revolutionary era

False

Who was the first person to die for American Independence?

Crispus Attucks

Explain the dilemma African Americans found themselves in when the Revolutionary War broke out

British offered them freedom to fight with them but the Americans were fighting for freedom so they wondered what decision would get them their freedom.

The ___ ____ compromise is a part of the Constitution that gave southern slaveholders a significant amount of political power.

Three Fifths

what year did the haitian revolution begin?

1791

Who led the plot for a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800?

Gabriel

What effect did the Haitian Revolution have on African Americans?

Spread ideas about freedom and inspired African Americans to violently resist against slavery, maybe flee to Haiti, created an atmosphere of anxiety among the white population because they were afraid another Haitian revolution would take place in America which would lead to more restrictions on African Americans.

_____ ____ founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the year ____

Richard Allen; 1816

What incident in the Methodist church caused Richard Allen to lead Black congregants out of the church?

Black congregates were forced into their own segregated black congregate section.

An unfortunate belief among most enslaved African American Christian was that God supported slavery

false

What was the name of the organization, founded, in 1816 that was designed to transport free African Americans back to Africa?

American Colonization Society

What do you think some African Americans rejected the mission of transporting free African Americans to Africa?

saw it as a plot to make other enslaved people more vulnerable to the system of slavery because they were unable to help free them from slavery

The African Americans Spiritual entitled “Wade in Water” was used by enslaved Africans to refer to:

Baptism, Instructions for escape

“wade in water”: if you are running and bloodhounds are behind you, wade into the water because the bloodhounds won’t be able to find you

What state did Denmark Vesey’s insurrection take place?

South Carolina

What year was Vesey’s insurrection plot schedules for

1822

____ Appeal was written in _____ and advocated for a violent revolt among Black people

Walker’s, 1829

Jarena Lee is most notable for her

preaching in the black methodist church

richard allen supported her

____ is the cash crop that would cause an explosive rise in the enslaved population during the early 19th century

cotton

founded in 1827, _____ ______, was the first black anti slavery newspaper

freedom’s journal

William Lloyd Garrison was a radical abolitionist responsible for the time in history referred to as Bleeding Kansas

False it was John Brown

Define Drapetomania

when slaves want to run away from their enslavers, a mental illness for wanting to be free

explain the significance of the 1850 fugitive slave act. what is it? how did white northeners respond?

if anyone found a runaway slave, she had to return them or be charged with treason. white people in the north were angry and upset about this, made them be involved and saw it as hostile legislation

what is the political principle known as popular sovereignty? what is the context of its popular use in American history?

Popular sovereignty means people get to decide what the rules are. the context of its popular use in american history is legalizing slavery in new states.

what previous legislation did the Kansas Nebraska Act repeal?

Missouri compromise

which individual was a significant figure in what is known as “Bleeding Kansas”?

John Brown

______ wrote the novel entitled Blake in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel called ______

Martin Delany, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Who is Margaret Garner and why is she a significant figure in African American History?

Margaret Garner escaped in Cincinnati, and due to the fugitive slave act, she was being forced to go back, and she tried to kill her children and successfully killed one so they wouldn’t have to be enslaved. abolitionists used her story to show how bad slavery was.

_____ first state to secede in the year ______

south carolina, 1860

what did the vice president of the confederate states of America say the foundation of the confederacy was based on?

black people were inferior and not equal to whites and their natural state was slavery

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed all enslaved people living in the Union territory.

false

give the name and an explanation of the system that developed immediately after emancipation that would be called “slavery by another name”

sharecropping which is when freed African Americans went back to their original owners for work and they were constantly kept in debt by their owners.

who was the first african american to serve on the US congress

Hiram revels

in the wake of white terrorism in the south, african americans began migrating to this state shortly after emancipation.

Kansas