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(3.1A) List the two major protections promised to all US citizens, under the Fourteenth Amendment.

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(3.1B) Briefly describe ONE effect of the ratification of the 15th Amendment on American society?

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(3.4A) Briefly describe TWO ways in which southern legislatures sought to suppress the vote of African Americans during and/or shortly after the Reconstruction era.

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(3.8B) Describe at least two ways that Black women promoted the advancement of African Americans.

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(3.9A) Describe two ways in which African Americans promoted the economic stability and well-being of their communities in the early 20th century?

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(3.9A) Identify at least one unique historical accomplishment of Madame C.J. Walker.

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(3.10A) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, HBCUs emphasized two education models for learning and professional training across a range of careers; list them both?

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(3.12A) Describe the 1900 Paris Exposition titled "The Exhibit of American Negros"; you must include the name of the person who created the exhibit and at least one important aspect of the exhibit.

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(3.13A) Name one major contributor to the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance.

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(3.1A) List the two major protections promised to all US citizens, under the Fourteenth Amendment.

What was the primary objective of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

Equal Protection

Right to Vote

Granting Citizenship

Abolition of Slavery

When first ratified in 1870, what did the15th Amendment guarantee?

Equal protection under the law

The Abolition of slavery

The right to vote for all male citizens of the United States

The right to vote for all citizens of the United States

What was the ultimate aspiration of the Reconstruction Era?

Reestablish and reintegrate Southern states into the Union and protect the formerly enslaved

Furtherance of slavery practices

Immediate universal suffrage implementation

Penalizing Southern states for secession

Why were Black Codes enacted during the Reconstruction era?

To help African Americans vote

To provide legal support for freed slaves

To restore the social controls of earlier slave codes

To promote racial equality

What was the long-term effect of the revocation of General William T. Sherman's Special Order No. 15?

Immediate integration of African-Americans

African Americans were evicted from confiscated lands or shifted into sharecropping contracts

Swift rebuilding of Southern infrastructure

Immediate economic boom caused by the return of southern democratic rule

Who profited most from convict leasing in the Southern United States?

Northern Industries

Churches

Southern Plantations

Southern Prisons

What was accomplished by instituting Jim Crow laws?

They created separate public spaces for different races

They ended slavery

They eliminated racism

They established equal rights for all American citizens

Which of the following is considered a major impact of the Election of 1876?

Restored Civil Rights to all US citizens

It initiated the Progressive Era

It led directly to the Gilded Age

It ended Reconstruction in the South

Which Supreme Court ruling legally validated racial segregation policies?

Marbury v. Madison

Plessy v. Ferguson

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Brown v. Board of Education

The Great Migration of African Americans in the early to mid-20th century was largely a response to which factor?

Jim Crow laws and racial violence in the South

The completion of the transcontinental railroad

The spread of the Ku Klux Klan in the North

Industrial expansion in the South

African American Studies scholars refer to the period between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of World War II as the...?

Nadir

Jim Crow Era

The Plessy Period

Klan era

How did Ida B. Wells seek to combat racism and discrimination?

By running for political office

By founding a college

Through journalism and advocacy

Through military action

(3.1B) Briefly describe ONE effect of the ratification of the 15th Amendment on American society?

(3.4A) Briefly describe TWO ways in which southern legislatures sought to suppress the vote of African Americans during and/or shortly after the Reconstruction era.

Why was the summer of 1919 nicknamed "Red Summer"?

Red was associated with communism

Due to the bloodshed during a proliferation of racial violence 

It was extremely hot

A poet named it because of the intense heat the caused increased social tension

In which of the following writings does poet Claude McKay, in response to the Tulsa Race Massacre, encourage African Americans to preserve their dignity and fight back against anti-Black violence and discrimination?

"If We Must Die"

"America"

"The Lynching"

"Harlem Shadows"

What terrible act that occurred in 1955, demonstrates the longevity of lynching as a tactic of white supremacist violence well beyond the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre?

The Arrest of Rosa Parks

The murder of Emmett Till

The bombing of the 14th Street Baptist Church

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What is the 'Veil' concept as argued by Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois in 'The Souls of Black Folks'?

Symbol of how religious worship helped African Americans survive the discrimination of the Jim Crow South

Symbol of African Americans’ separation from full participation in American society and struggle for self-improvement due to discrimination

Symbol of wealth in the Greenwood community before the events of the Tulsa Race Massacre

African tribal symbol for forced separation between African Kingdoms

What did Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois argue is the 'double-consciousness' for African-Americans in 'The Souls of Black Folks'?

The internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in an oppressive society

Only identifying as African without accepting the assimilation forced upon Africans in America

Feeling neither American nor African in a country that never fully accepted Blacks as Americans

Only feeling American; forgetting the origin of a people

Each chapter of "The Souls of Black Folk" opens with verses of spirituals, which Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois calls...?

"Freedom Verses"

"Sorrow Songs"

"Spirituals"

"Soulful Songs"

Who is the author of the poem 'We Wear the Mask', which represents the false emotions a person might "wear" in front of other people?

Maya Angelou

Robert Frost

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Langston Hughes

What did educators and activists call for to promote greater inclusion of Black women in American society?

Women’s education and suffrage

For women to accept their primary role as wife and mother

Women's pursuit of careers in service industries

For women to become leaders in local communities before entering politics

Which of the following writings was produced by Nannie Helen Burroughs in 1900 to encourage church leaders to accept the idea of leadership roles for women in the church?

"How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping"

"The Feminine Mystic"

"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

"The Women They Could Not Silence"

What did African American literature, poetry, and music, such as the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” encourage African Americans to do?

Protest racial injustice everywhere it existed

Join the NAACP and support non-violent direct action efforts

Take pride in their heritage and cultural achievements

Run for political office to directly affect changes in American laws

Which of the following does Booker T. Washington suggest in "The Atlanta Exposition Address," at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition in 1895, that led Ida B. Wells to label him an "accommodationist"?

Armed rebellion against white supremacy in the South

Blacks should remain in the South and focus on industrial education and training before seeking equal rights

Blacks should protest and boycott for immediate political equality in America

Civil disobedience is the only way African Americans can achieve equality

(3.8B) Describe at least two ways that Black women promoted the advancement of African Americans.

(3.9A) Describe two ways in which African Americans promoted the economic stability and well-being of their communities in the early 20th century?

Which establishment is regarded as the pioneering Black Christian denomination in U.S history?

Baptists Convention

African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Roman Catholic Church

Black Pentecostal Church

Why did the Black Church become a political and social center for African Americans in United States history?

Only religious events were held

It provided a safe space for Black organizing, and cultural expression

Black people were not allowed elsewhere so they created their own churches

It was mandated by the government that black churches existed as a result of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision

(3.9A) Identify at least one unique historical accomplishment of Madame C.J. Walker.

Which of the following HBCUs, founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was the first university fully owned and operated by African Americans?

Howard University

Fisk University

Bethune-Cookman College

Wilberforce University

When were the majority of Historically Black Colleges and University's established?

Following the Emancipation Proclamation

Immediately after African Americans returned from serving in France during World War I

After the American Civil War

During the Antebellum period to educate enslaved Africans who escaped the South

(3.10A) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, HBCUs emphasized two education models for learning and professional training across a range of careers; list them both?

In which of the following ways did the creation of HBCUs in the United States impact the educational and professional lives of African Americans nationally and internationally? Select all that apply.

It guaranteed admission to African American students regardless of academic performance at the secondary school level

Transformed African Americans’ access to higher education and professional training

Allowed African Americans to rise out of poverty and become leaders in all sectors of society

Required all members of the United Nations to accept the academic credentials of African American students

What was the name of the HBCU student choir that introduced the religious and musical tradition of African American spirituals to the global stage during their international tours?

Fisk Jubilee Singers

The Morehouse College Glee Club

The Howard University Gospel Choir

The Tuskegee University Golden Voices Choir

What was a primary goal of the New Negro Movement?

To Boycott South African goods due to the practice of Apartheid

To get African Americans to support repatriation to Africa

To define their own identity and to advocate for themselves politically 

Freedom from United States rule

In which of the following ways did African Americans use visual media in the 20th century to enact social change?

To attack politicians who failed to support their cause

To counter racist representations of African Americans

To show the benefits of segregation to protect Black interest in the North

To attract more African Americans to migrate South to keep cultural traditions alive

(3.12A) Describe the 1900 Paris Exposition titled "The Exhibit of American Negros"; you must include the name of the person who created the exhibit and at least one important aspect of the exhibit.

Some Harlem Renaissance poets explored the relationship between Africa and African American identity and heritage through...?

Negro Spirituals

Slave Narratives

Newspaper columns

Personal reflection

(3.13A) Name one major contributor to the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance.

Which of the following explains why New Negro renaissance writers, artists, and educators strove to research and disseminate Black history to Black students?

To increase the percentage of Black students who stay in school and graduate

They believed U.S. schools reinforced the idea that Black people had made no meaningful cultural contributions and were thus inferior

To strengthen the academic curriculum during Black History Month observances

To increase the coverage of women of color in history classrooms

Which of the following African American educators became the founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and is credited with creating what is now called Black History Month?

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

Mary McCloud Bethune

Carter G. Woodson

What school, that began in the late 18th century, provided an education to the children of enslaved and free Black people in New York, and helped prepare early Black abolitionists for leadership?

The Carlisle School

The Penn Center

Tuskegee Institute

The African Free School

What sociologist and activist's research and writings produced some of the earliest sociological surveys of African Americans?

Arturo Schomburg

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

Mary McCloud Bethune

What book by Zora Neale Hurston is considered an example of the use of Colloquialisms in writing?

Moses, Man of the Mountain

Seraph on the Suwanee

Barracoon

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Which of the following were key motivation factors behind the Great Migration? Select all that apply.

Low cost of living made the north a more affordable place for poor African Americans

Environmental factors, such as floods, boll weevils, and spoiled crops, had left many Black Southerners impoverished

The Labor Strike of 1917

Labor shortages in the North during World War I and World War II increased job opportunities

Which of the following was the most influential African American newspaper in the United States during the period of the Great Migration?

Chicago Defender

The Liberator

New York Post

Wall Street Journal

Which of the following was a major impact of the Great Migration on the cities that received a large influx of African Americans?

Unemployment rates in major factories increased

The frequency of Labor Strikes increased in industrial areas

Racial tensions increased

More money was spend on housing developments in the poorer areas of the state

What was the primary objective of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

Equal Protection

Right to Vote

Granting Citizenship

Abolition of Slavery

When first ratified in 1870, what did the15th Amendment guarantee?

Equal protection under the law

The Abolition of slavery

The right to vote for all male citizens of the United States

The right to vote for all citizens of the United States

What was the ultimate aspiration of the Reconstruction Era?

Reestablish and reintegrate Southern states into the Union and protect the formerly enslaved

Furtherance of slavery practices

Immediate universal suffrage implementation

Penalizing Southern states for secession

Why were Black Codes enacted during the Reconstruction era?

To help African Americans vote

To provide legal support for freed slaves

To restore the social controls of earlier slave codes

To promote racial equality

What was the long-term effect of the revocation of General William T. Sherman's Special Order No. 15?

Immediate integration of African-Americans

African Americans were evicted from confiscated lands or shifted into sharecropping contracts

Swift rebuilding of Southern infrastructure

Immediate economic boom caused by the return of southern democratic rule

Who profited most from convict leasing in the Southern United States?

Northern Industries

Churches

Southern Plantations

Southern Prisons

What was accomplished by instituting Jim Crow laws?

They created separate public spaces for different races

They ended slavery

They eliminated racism

They established equal rights for all American citizens

Which of the following is considered a major impact of the Election of 1876?

Restored Civil Rights to all US citizens

It initiated the Progressive Era

It led directly to the Gilded Age

It ended Reconstruction in the South

Which Supreme Court ruling legally validated racial segregation policies?

Marbury v. Madison

Plessy v. Ferguson

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Brown v. Board of Education

The Great Migration of African Americans in the early to mid-20th century was largely a response to which factor?

Jim Crow laws and racial violence in the South

The completion of the transcontinental railroad

The spread of the Ku Klux Klan in the North

Industrial expansion in the South

African American Studies scholars refer to the period between the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of World War II as the...?

Nadir

Jim Crow Era

The Plessy Period

Klan era

How did Ida B. Wells seek to combat racism and discrimination?

By running for political office

By founding a college

Through journalism and advocacy

Through military action

Why was the summer of 1919 nicknamed "Red Summer"?

Red was associated with communism

Due to the bloodshed during a proliferation of racial violence 

It was extremely hot

A poet named it because of the intense heat the caused increased social tension

In which of the following writings does poet Claude McKay, in response to the Tulsa Race Massacre, encourage African Americans to preserve their dignity and fight back against anti-Black violence and discrimination?

"If We Must Die"

"America"

"The Lynching"

"Harlem Shadows"

What terrible act that occurred in 1955, demonstrates the longevity of lynching as a tactic of white supremacist violence well beyond the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre?

The Arrest of Rosa Parks

The murder of Emmett Till

The bombing of the 14th Street Baptist Church

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What is the 'Veil' concept as argued by Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois in 'The Souls of Black Folks'?

Symbol of how religious worship helped African Americans survive the discrimination of the Jim Crow South

Symbol of African Americans’ separation from full participation in American society and struggle for self-improvement due to discrimination

Symbol of wealth in the Greenwood community before the events of the Tulsa Race Massacre

African tribal symbol for forced separation between African Kingdoms

What did Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois argue is the 'double-consciousness' for African-Americans in 'The Souls of Black Folks'?

The internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in an oppressive society

Only identifying as African without accepting the assimilation forced upon Africans in America

Feeling neither American nor African in a country that never fully accepted Blacks as Americans

Only feeling American; forgetting the origin of a people

Each chapter of "The Souls of Black Folk" opens with verses of spirituals, which Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois calls...?

"Freedom Verses"

"Sorrow Songs"

"Spirituals"

"Soulful Songs"

Who is the author of the poem 'We Wear the Mask', which represents the false emotions a person might "wear" in front of other people?

Maya Angelou

Robert Frost

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Langston Hughes

What did educators and activists call for to promote greater inclusion of Black women in American society?

Women’s education and suffrage

For women to accept their primary role as wife and mother

Women's pursuit of careers in service industries

For women to become leaders in local communities before entering politics

Which of the following writings was produced by Nannie Helen Burroughs in 1900 to encourage church leaders to accept the idea of leadership roles for women in the church?

"How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping"

"The Feminine Mystic"

"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

"The Women They Could Not Silence"

What did African American literature, poetry, and music, such as the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” encourage African Americans to do?

Protest racial injustice everywhere it existed

Join the NAACP and support non-violent direct action efforts

Take pride in their heritage and cultural achievements

Run for political office to directly affect changes in American laws

Which of the following does Booker T. Washington suggest in "The Atlanta Exposition Address," at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition in 1895, that led Ida B. Wells to label him an "accommodationist"?

Armed rebellion against white supremacy in the South

Blacks should remain in the South and focus on industrial education and training before seeking equal rights

Blacks should protest and boycott for immediate political equality in America

Civil disobedience is the only way African Americans can achieve equality

Which establishment is regarded as the pioneering Black Christian denomination in U.S history?

Baptists Convention

African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Roman Catholic Church

Black Pentecostal Church

Why did the Black Church become a political and social center for African Americans in United States history?

Only religious events were held

It provided a safe space for Black organizing, and cultural expression

Black people were not allowed elsewhere so they created their own churches

It was mandated by the government that black churches existed as a result of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision

Which of the following HBCUs, founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was the first university fully owned and operated by African Americans?

Howard University

Fisk University

Bethune-Cookman College

Wilberforce University

When were the majority of Historically Black Colleges and University's established?

Following the Emancipation Proclamation

Immediately after African Americans returned from serving in France during World War I

After the American Civil War

During the Antebellum period to educate enslaved Africans who escaped the South

In which of the following ways did the creation of HBCUs in the United States impact the educational and professional lives of African Americans nationally and internationally? Select all that apply.

It guaranteed admission to African American students regardless of academic performance at the secondary school level

Transformed African Americans’ access to higher education and professional training

Allowed African Americans to rise out of poverty and become leaders in all sectors of society

Required all members of the United Nations to accept the academic credentials of African American students

What was the name of the HBCU student choir that introduced the religious and musical tradition of African American spirituals to the global stage during their international tours?

Fisk Jubilee Singers

The Morehouse College Glee Club

The Howard University Gospel Choir

The Tuskegee University Golden Voices Choir

What was a primary goal of the New Negro Movement?

To Boycott South African goods due to the practice of Apartheid

To get African Americans to support repatriation to Africa

To define their own identity and to advocate for themselves politically 

Freedom from United States rule

In which of the following ways did African Americans use visual media in the 20th century to enact social change?

To attack politicians who failed to support their cause

To counter racist representations of African Americans

To show the benefits of segregation to protect Black interest in the North

To attract more African Americans to migrate South to keep cultural traditions alive

Some Harlem Renaissance poets explored the relationship between Africa and African American identity and heritage through...?

Negro Spirituals

Slave Narratives

Newspaper columns

Personal reflection

Which of the following explains why New Negro renaissance writers, artists, and educators strove to research and disseminate Black history to Black students?

To increase the percentage of Black students who stay in school and graduate

They believed U.S. schools reinforced the idea that Black people had made no meaningful cultural contributions and were thus inferior

To strengthen the academic curriculum during Black History Month observances

To increase the coverage of women of color in history classrooms

Which of the following African American educators became the founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), and is credited with creating what is now called Black History Month?

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

Mary McCloud Bethune

Carter G. Woodson

What school, that began in the late 18th century, provided an education to the children of enslaved and free Black people in New York, and helped prepare early Black abolitionists for leadership?

The Carlisle School

The Penn Center

Tuskegee Institute

The African Free School

What sociologist and activist's research and writings produced some of the earliest sociological surveys of African Americans?

Arturo Schomburg

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

Mary McCloud Bethune

What book by Zora Neale Hurston is considered an example of the use of Colloquialisms in writing?

Moses, Man of the Mountain

Seraph on the Suwanee

Barracoon

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Which of the following were key motivation factors behind the Great Migration? Select all that apply.

Low cost of living made the north a more affordable place for poor African Americans

Environmental factors, such as floods, boll weevils, and spoiled crops, had left many Black Southerners impoverished

The Labor Strike of 1917

Labor shortages in the North during World War I and World War II increased job opportunities

Which of the following was the most influential African American newspaper in the United States during the period of the Great Migration?

Chicago Defender

The Liberator

New York Post

Wall Street Journal

Which of the following was a major impact of the Great Migration on the cities that received a large influx of African Americans?

Unemployment rates in major factories increased

The frequency of Labor Strikes increased in industrial areas

Racial tensions increased

More money was spend on housing developments in the poorer areas of the state

According to this unit, in which of the following ways did southern whites take drastic steps to keep their Black labor force in the face of massive departures during the Great Migration.

Lynched any African American attempting to leave the south

Unjustly arrested African Americans attempting to leave the south

Increased the use of iron-clad sharecropper contracts to prevent African Americans from leaving the south

Outlawed African Americans from purchasing tickets on trains leaving southern stations

What African American artist created a series of art titled "The Migration Series," chronicling African Americans’ hopes and challenges during the Great Migration?

Langston Hughes

Jacob Lawrence

Bob Ross

William Johnson

Which of the following describes the reasons for the increase in Black Caribbean migration to the United States during the first half of the 20th century? Select all that apply.

Decline of Caribbean economies during World War I

Desire for American industrialist to procure cheap sources of human labor

Expansion of U.S. political and economic interests in the region

They came to the United States to escape communism

How did Afro-Caribbean intellectuals contribute to the radicalization of Black thought in the 20th century?

By bringing recipes unique to Caribbean culture

By teaching American scholars how to successfully communicate with white European scholarly communities  

By infusing their experiences of Black empowerment and autonomy into the radical Black social movements of the time

By sharing the practices of civil rights protests learned from centuries a fighting European colonialists

According to Marcus Garvey, what was a major goal of the Universal Negro Improvement Association?

To achieve Black unity and Black liberation from colonialism across the African diaspora

To inspire all African Americans to unify forces against the United States government

To convince African Americans to embrace segregation as a way to focus on Black unity

To cause a global rebellion of all people of African Descent

What was the name of the most influential African American newspaper in the United States that encouraged the northward migration of African Americans?

Chicago Defender

Negro World

Black Star

North Star