African American Studies Midterm, True and False
W.E.B. DuBois
1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910
What was the Underground Railroad?
A network system hidden to get slaves to freedom
Significance of Berlin Conference in 1885?
Africa was divided among those countries involved in the conference.
Marcus Garvey
African American leader durin the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927. Father of black nationalism
Ida B. Wells
African-American journalist who led the fight against lynching
Anthony Johnson
African-American landowner in Virginia. Was at first an indentured servant. (1620) Tobacco farmer. Died in 1670.
What is the link between African American History and Africa?
Africans came to America which then brought over their culture
What was the impact of the European industrial revolution on colonial America?
Americas produce raw materials rapidly because of the industrial revolution. Cotton gin came along and made it easier to pick cotton.
What was the Arab influence in Africa?
Brought over the religion of Islam over to Africa, mosques were built, Arabic and Swahili were languages that came over.
What were the three religions in Africa?
Christianity , Islam, TAR
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
What were some early objectives of African American Studies?
Education of others on campus, teaching African experience with focus on culture. Creating knowledge for these politics.
Racial slavery
Enslaving people based only upon the color of their skin.
Why was African History Denied? (From Documentary)
Europeans did not want African Americans to be perceived as being capable of what they were capable of
Why did the British colonists enslave the Africans?
Free labor would be provided.
What is meant by Multidimensional?
Has many different experiences going beyond history. These include Psychology, Sociology and religion.
What constraints did African American students and faculty and community encounter in trying to establish the AA studies at OSU?
Jim Crow laws, no funding was wanted to be put out for it, no room for class to be held, fear of violence on campus with protests against the class being established.
What methods were used by slaves to resist slavery?
Jumping off ships, mutiny on ships, stealing farmers tools, rebellion against slave owners.
Why was "labor" needed on rural farms during slavery?
Kept economy going with the cotton picking so US could participate in triangle trade.
Booker T. Washington
Major black rights leader at the time, made first African American flight academy.
What was the "Civil Rights Movement"?
Movement for equal rights for both blacks and whites
What is Pan-Africanism?
Movement to unite all Africans
What was the terrible transformation?
Period where blacks were brought from Africa to be endangered servants.
What are the three approximate stages of African History?
Pre Slavery Civil Rights
How did college students play a part in the civil rights movement?
Protesting equal rights for black students. Including protests, sits ins, etc.
Why was slavery legal then?
Provided slave owners with free labor. Blacks were not thought of as one of us, they were alienated.
Why did African Americans convert to Christianity during the slavery era?
Slave owners wanted Christianity to be the celebrated religion among slaves.
What caused the civil war in America?
Slave states and anti slave states disagreeing. North had done away with slavery whereas south needed the labor to be able to pick Cotton. South disagreed on everything North wanted the rest of the Nation to go along with.
What are three (triple) heritages in Africa?
TAR Christianity Islam
What is African American Studies?
The critical and systematic study of African people of their past and current history
What was the "Middle Passage"?
The journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas
What was Reconstruction?
The period of rebuilding the South and getting them back in the Union.
Did Arabs participate in denying African History?
True/yes
Mary McLeod Bethune
United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)
What are the pre-slavery era civilizations/empires in Africa?
Venda Shuna Swahili
Ollaudah Equiano
Was one of first slaves able to read and write. Was able to escape the slave trade
Jemmy (The Angolan)
Was the leader of the Stono Rebellion
Can the characteristics of TAR be applied to Christianity and Islam?
Yes
Did the Underground Railroad pass through Ohio?
Yes
Were any African Americans involved in Science and Inventions?
Yes; Henry Blair, seed planter. John Parker, Garret Morgan - Belt Fastner. Granville T. Woods
