Fall 2019 AAH Midterm

What year had the United States outlawed the Atlantic slave trade?

1807

The Confederates killed __________ black troops in the Fort Pillow Massacre.

300

Which is NOT of the three major societies in West Africa?

Abyssinian

Many places in which people of African descent that are living outside of the continent of Africa

African Diaspora

What aspect(s) of African history might help explain the role Africans played in the slave trade with Europe and the Americas?

Africans were middlemen that captured Africans of enemy tribes and sold/traded them to European slavers

The rebellions of Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vessey, and Nat Turner all led to

All of the above

Africa is bounded by the __________ to the west.

Atlantic Ocean

Although the Transatlantic Slave Trade had been abolished in the United States by 1807, all were ways that southern states met their demand for slave labor EXCEPT

Buying slaves from Mexico

Who led the slave revolt aboard the slave ship, La Amistad?

Cinque'

All were important to enslaved and free blacks in America EXCEPT

Clothes

Which of the following was one of the questions Chief Justice Roger Taney sought to resolve in his decision in the Dred Scott case?

Could an African American sue in federal court?

A blend of different cultures is

Creole

Which is NOT a geographic zone of Africa?

Eastern-Artic

Which book of the Bible was prohibited for slaves to preach from in slave churches?

Exodus

This African led a group of maroons in present-day Veracruz, Mexico against the Spanish to gain freedom and their own settlement led by blacks in the New World

Gasper Yanga

Slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture that would lead the colony to gain independence from France to become the first independent nation in the western hemisphere by blacks

Haitian Revolution

Which of the following was a result of the Three-Fifths Clause in the Constitution?

It increased the South's political power in the House of Representatives.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment accomplish?

It made all people born in the United States citizens.

What explains the fact that California was able to apply for statehood so quickly after becoming part of the United States?

Its population increased rapidly after gold was discovered.

This African American explorer establish an important pass through the Sierra Nevada Mountains

James "Jim" Beckwourth

Who was the first black doctor in America?

James Durham

This form of dance came from Africa to the Americas and would later evolve into tap dancing and stepping

Juba/Hambone

The Nubians established an independent kingdom known as __________.

Kush

American Colonization Society created a colony for free blacks in which West African country?

Liberia

Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of __________.

Livestock

Under the terms of the Missouri Compromise, __________ entered the Union as a slave state.

Maine

Members of runaway slave communities in the Caribbean and mainland Latin America

Maroons

What portion of the triangular trade carried human cargo?

Middle Passage

Sectional tensions came to a head when __________ applied for statehood in 1819.

Missouri

Establishing a slave society among native peoples in Mexico and Brazil proved difficult for all the reasons listed below EXCEPT:

Natives were immune to European diseases

Ancient Egyptian society was profoundly shaped by the __________

Nile River

Why did slave owners think a strong fugitive slave law was necessary in 1850?

Northern communities were increasingly unwilling to return escaped slaves.

What was one provision concerning slavery of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

Outlawed slavery in any new states formed in the territory

This African-American was the first to attempt to have African-Americans emigrate to Africa?

Paul Cuffee

West Africa's indigenous religions were __________.

Polytheistic

In the early 1400s, the __________ began to explore the coastline of Africa

Portuguese

Which of the following was a major component of the trans-Atlantic trade?

Slaves

Which of the following was true of slavery in West Africa?

Some slaves owned property and held positions of power.

Black delegates were a majority in which state's constitutional convention?

South Carolina

______________ were songs that held secret messages that helped to lead slaves to freedom and told of slaves joys and sorrows

Spirituals

Which of the following created enormous demand for West African slaves in sixteenth-century Brazil?

Sugar plantations

_____________________________ culture blended elements of African & Arabic life

Swahili

Which of the following occurred shortly after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Tens of thousands of slaves liberated themselves

Which of the following helps explain why the 32 people of African descent who arrived in Jamestown in the early seventeenth century were not considered slaves?

The English did not have a law establishing slavery.

Which is NOT true of the Underground Railroad?

The Underground Railroad was an actual railroad that helped runaway slaves travel easier to the North for freedom

Why did Richard Allen and others end their association with St. George's Church?

The white congregation discriminated against them.

How did free African Americans in the North respond to the outbreak of war?

They offered their service to the Union.

How did the men of the 54th Massachusetts protest race discrimination?

They said they would accept no pay unless it was equal to white men's pay.

What major West African city rose to prominence as a result of its creation of a university?

Timbuktu

What was the name of the trade route between the Americas, Africa, and Europe called that traded natural resources, manufactured goods, and human cargo?

Triangular Trade

Hiram Revels was elected __________ in Mississippi.

U.S. Senator

All were ways that blacks could gain their freedom EXCEPT

Vote for emancipation

The major early roots of African-American culture lay in the civilizations that emerged in __________.

West Africa

Which statement best characterizes the power and status of women in ancient Egypt?

Women held a relatively high status, could own property, and be public officials.

Which of the following helps explain why slavery was less extensive in the northern colonies than the southern colonies?

a cooler climate in the North

Under sharecropping, what did laborers receive in exchange for their work?

a portion of the crop

Which of the following was included in the Compromise of 1850 to appease southerners?

a stronger fugitive slave law

The 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act provided funds for __________.

agricultural and mechanical college

Black politicians pushed for laws to protect the interests of __________.

agricultural laborers and small farmers

For most of the seventeenth century, __________.

black and white people worked side by side in tobacco fields in the Chesapeake colonies.

In early 1862, Lincoln sought to convince leaders in the border states to accept __________.

compensated emancipation

Increased __________ cultivation in the late eighteenth century strengthened slavery in the United States.

cotton

Crispus Attucks was killed __________.

during the Boston Massacre

Former slaves understood that __________ was inseparable from freedom

education

Phillis Wheatley believed that black people should __________.

embrace Christianity

The term "contraband" was used to refer to __________.

escaped slaves

During the American Revolution, African Americans __________.

fought on both sides

Benjamin Banneker's abilities as a __________ led to employment with the federal government.

mathematician

Griots were __________.

oral historians in Africa

The Fifteenth Amendment __________.

protected voting rights of black men

Eli Whitney's cotton gin made it easier to __________

remove seeds from cotton bolls

As soon as slavery ended, many ex-slaves __________.

set out to find family members who had been sold

The first draft of the Declaration of Independence denounced __________.

slavery

The westward expansion of slavery was accelerated by _________.

the Louisiana Purchase

The preservation of __________ created the foundation for African-American culture.

the West African extended family

Uncle Tom's Cabin appealed to __________.

the emotions of northern readers

What was John Brown's target in Harper's Ferry, Virginia?

the federal arsenal

What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

to help newly freed slaves transition to freedom

Mali was __________ than Ghana.

wealthier

In exchange for Democratic support in the constitutional crisis created by the disputed outcome of the election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes ________.

withdrew the last federal troops from the South