Duplicate of Duplicate of Afircan Amerian History Final

Question 1

Abolitionist whose raid on the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859 made him a marty to the antislavery cause

Accepted Answer

John Brown

Question 2

What organization did Malcolm X found?

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The Organization of Afro-American Unity

Question 3

Shirley Chisholm became ____.

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the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress

Question 4

Marcus Garvey led a movement to

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create new African American homelands in Africa

Question 5

also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work

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Peonage

Question 6

The Ku Klux Klan effective in achieving their goals, because they

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used violence to intimidate republican voters and freedmen

Question 7

How long was Malcolm X in jail?

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6 1/2 years

Question 8

How did Malcolm X and his ideas impact the Black Power movement?

Accepted Answer

He believed that violence in response to violence was justified.

Question 9

Malcolm X's parents were...

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Earl and Louise Little

Question 10

Malcolm X's teacher told him...

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He shouldn't be a lawyer

Question 11

How did the SCLC impact the civil rights movement?

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They helped arrange the Bus Boycott, Helped create the Civil Rights Act of '64 and the Voting Rights Act of '65

Question 12

Who is WEB Dubois

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Civil Rights leader and founder of NAACP

Question 13

Thurgood Marshall was:

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the first African American in the Supreme Court

Question 14

Which book did Carter G. Woodson write?

Accepted Answer

The Mis-education of the Negro

Question 15

a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955

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Emmett Till

Question 16

Who is James Van Der Zee?

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A Photographer

Question 17

What was The Brown Vs The Board of Education Mostly About?

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The First Step in the Desegregation of America’s Schools

Question 18

one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices for civil and voting rights, from the Mississippi Delta

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Question 19

Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black cultural movement known as what?

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The Harlem Renaissance

Question 20

The FBI program known as COINTELPRO was designed to

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Disrupt Black and liberal protest groups

Question 21

How was Emmett Till identified?

Accepted Answer

His ring

Question 22

Who coined the term "The New Negro" that described the proud, spirited Afr-Amer youth?

Accepted Answer

Alain Locke

Question 23

born into slavery and rose to become a leading African American intellectual of the 19 century, founding Tuskegee

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Booker T. Washington

Question 24

who were the Tuskegee Airmen

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first black pilots to serve in the Airforce

Question 25

Who killed Emmitt Till?

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Donham’s husband and brother-in-law

Question 26

Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine

Accepted Answer

Plessy V. Ferguson

Question 27

a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations.

Accepted Answer

Convict Leasing

Question 28

When was the Ku Klux Klan founded?

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Shortly after the Civil war

Question 29

What was Emmitt Till accused of?

Accepted Answer

cat-calling the wife of a white grocery store owner

Question 30

What organization was Malcolm X the spokesperson for

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Nation of Islam

Question 31

Who founded Black History Month?

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Carter G. Woodson

Question 32

Who was Martin Luther King, Jr. ?

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a minister who worked for equality

Question 33

What did the "New Negro" represent for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance?

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a radical break with a past of discrimination

Question 34

who were the black panthers?

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a political party that was created during the civil rights movement

Question 35

Who was Thurgood Marshall?

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A lawyer who fought in the case Brown v. Board of Education

Question 36

Who founded the Black Panther Party

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Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton

Question 37

Where was Malcolm X born?

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Omaha, Nebraska

Question 38

In th Nation of Islam, the "X" stands for

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Unknown

Question 39

The Black Panther Party's "Survival Programs" provided ______ to black communities

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Free sickle cell anemia testing, Free ambulance services, Free breakfast for children, Adult education

Question 40

Why is Fannie Lou Hamer significant?

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Driving force in the MS Civil Rights Movement

Question 41

What was the name of Marcus Garvey's organization?

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United Negro Improvement Association

Question 42

Who was the leader of the Nation of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Elijah Muhammed

Question 43

Who were the men who killed Emmitt Till

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Roy Bryant and JW Milam

Question 44

the development of the ________ neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 45

1957 - What does SCLC stand for?

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 46

Why were African Americans leaving the south during the Great Migration?

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Jim Crow

Question 47

A case in which the Court decided that Blacks who were descendants of slaves were not citizens of the United States

Accepted Answer

Dredd Scott V Sanford

Question 48

WEB DuBois believed that...

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African Americans needed to be educated and involved in politics.

Question 49

The Ku Klux Klan

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used terror and violence to intimidate African Americans

Question 50

What was Langston Hughes known for?

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being a writer and thinker who shaped literature and politics

Question 51

The most famous of the Harlem Renaissance poets

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Hughes

Question 52

Who did Malcolm X recruit to the nation of Islam

Accepted Answer

Muhammad ALi

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