African-American History first semester midterm exam review.

Question 1

How many African Americans were elected to state and national offices?

Accepted Answer

2,000

Question 2

What New York City area, became the Mecca of African-American culture, a Renaissance of life.

Accepted Answer

Harlem

Question 3

What import from the South, became the most recognizable original American art form, globally?

Accepted Answer

jazz

Question 4

What was the law called that made it legal for African Americans to fight in combat roles?

Accepted Answer

Militia Act

Question 5

Richard Allen was a preacher in Philadelphia, who was a pioneer who

Accepted Answer

Both A and C

Question 6

What Constitutional Amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law?

Accepted Answer

14th

Question 7

Where was the Children's March held, where thousands of school children were arrested?

Accepted Answer

Birminham

Question 8

Mansa Musa brought Islam and great riches, to what great West African medieval kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Mali

Question 9

What Civil Rights leader was assassinated by the Nation of Islam, who had converted in prison?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 10

What percentage of prisoners live in the United States?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 11

What famous Civil Rights leader Marched on Washington, and shared his Dream with America?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 12

Approximately, how many slaves were transported to the United States?

Accepted Answer

500,000

Question 13

When Black voters became a full voting person, what terrorist group reemerged ?

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 14

Who became the first African-American president in American history?

Accepted Answer

Barack Obama

Question 15

How many lynchings a week, occurred in the New South, at the end of the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

three

Question 16

The kingdom of Axum, in present-day Ethiopia, was located near what region of Africa?

Accepted Answer

the Horn of Africa

Question 17

She was the leading muckraker, journalist, the loudest voice speaking out against lynchings.

Accepted Answer

Ida B. Wells

Question 18

Who captained a Confederate ship, to a Union location, at the beginning of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Robert Smalls

Question 19

Plessy vs. Ferguson promoted what Supreme Court catchphrase_____, regarding the Jim Crow South?

Accepted Answer

Separate but Equal

Question 20

Rosa Parks was arrested in what Southern city, sparking a boycott on the buses for 18 months?

Accepted Answer

Montgomery

Question 21

During the Second Middle Passage, approximately how many slaves were displaced in the South?

Accepted Answer

1 million

Question 22

Queen Nzinga resisted colonial Portuguese rule in present-day

Accepted Answer

Angola

Question 23

What is another name for Middle Passage

Accepted Answer

All of the answers apply

Question 24

Her nickname was Black Moses, and she returned 13 times to the South to free others.

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 25

What famous abolitionist was abandoned at six, a slave for fourteen years, and an author?

Accepted Answer

Frederick Dougalss

Question 26

Which law was part of the Compromise of 1850, along with California becoming a free state?

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 27

How many African-American soldiers died in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

40,000

Question 28

What was Ronald Reagan's policy, which greatly affected prisons and their populations?

Accepted Answer

War on Drugs

Question 29

The first African-American/doctorate degree from Harvard University, Dubois believed ________.

Accepted Answer

All of the answers apply

Question 30

About how many slaves lived in the United States just before the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

4 million

Question 31

Most of the slaves who came to the American South were from

Accepted Answer

Angola or the Kongo

Question 32

He was a former slave who promoted that the Blacks should remain in the South, economic growth.

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 33

Ancient Egypt was located along which river?

Accepted Answer

Nile

Question 34

What Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal, in 1865?

Accepted Answer

13th

Question 35

What Constitutional Amendment gave the right to vote to Black men?

Accepted Answer

15th

Question 36

What important book brought many White Americans to the Abolitionist Movement?

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 37

What was Bill Clinton's policy which greatly affected prisons and their populations in America?

Accepted Answer

Three Strikes and You're Out

Question 38

Jackie Robinson integrated what professional sport?

Accepted Answer

baseball

Question 39

Where were four girls killed attending Sunday school?

Accepted Answer

Birmingham

Question 40

The 54th Regiment of _______________, was the subject of the movie Glory, Civil War heroes.

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts

Question 41

Stokley Carmichael made the phrase Black Power popular in the 1960s, represented by a

Accepted Answer

panther

Question 42

Approximately how many Africans were kidnapped from Africa, during this event?

Accepted Answer

12-15 million

Question 43

In 1965, protesters in Selma, marched for what specific right, which they had been denied?

Accepted Answer

civil and voting rights

Question 44

Which of the following were border states, who stayed loyal to the Union, in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland

Question 45

Where did former slave Benjamin Montgomery run a successful plantation after the war?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi

Question 46

At Fort Monroe in Virginia, Benjamin Butler refused to return the escaped slaves, calling them

Accepted Answer

contraband

Question 47

What European power built the first slave forts in Africa?

Accepted Answer

the Portuguese

Question 48

At the 1900 Paris World Fair, what was the exhibition of photos about?

Accepted Answer

500 pictures of elegant African-Americans

Question 49

About what percentage of slaves never made it to the New World?

Accepted Answer

20%

Question 50

During what time period were most of the Africans kidnapped, called the Middle Passage?

Accepted Answer

1500 - 1800 C.E.

African-American History first semester midterm exam review.

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