African American studies exam
Which of the following was true of Meroe?
It was Africa's first industrial center
The Nubians established and independent kingdom known as
Kush
How was work divided among slaves during the seasoning process in the West Indies?
Masters generally divided the slaves into several gangs
Which of the following prevented widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity before the 1730s?
Masters worried that conversion would be seen as a step toward freedom
Which of the following was the largest of the empires in western Sudan?
Songhai
__________ was the first European nation to actively colonize the Americas
Spain
Georgia was founded, in part, to serve as a buffer between South Carolina and ____________
Spanish Florida
The term habilis means
"tool using"
In 1487 ________ discovered the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
Which of the following was true of the low country by 1740?
Black slaves made up 90 percent of the population in vicinity of Charleston
The growth of the Atlantic slave trade was driven by demand for the products of the Americas in _________
Europe
Settled village life was the result of the emergence of ___________
agriculture
What disease was known to slave crew as "bloody flux" ?
dysentery
In the late twentieth century, Afrocentricists regarded ancient _______ as an essentially black civilization
egypt
In what century did the English become the dominant power in the Atlantic slave trade?
eighteenth
Most African Americans saw Bill Clinton as ____________
one of their own
Growing demand for _________ led to the expansion of the slave labor system in the Chesapeake
tobacco
How long did a typical crossing from Africa to the Americas take?
two to three months
What contributed the most to the high mortality rates among slaves making the crossing to the Americas?
unsanitary conditions
Anthony Johnson _____________
was a black man who became a planter and slave owner
During the colonial period, about ________ percent of southern female slaves were field workers
90
In West Africa, ______ conducted the Islamic slave trade.
Sudanese horsemen
Which of the following was the most important reason that the British abolished the Atlantic slave trade in 1807?
The British economy became less dependent on agriculture by the late 1700s
The crews of ________ slavers generally preferred to sell their slaves in Barbados.
English
What was true of ships' surgeons aboard slavers?
They were paid by the hour for their services
Most southern slaves used technologies closely associated with __________
cultivating and processing agricultural commodities
Under President Reagan, the executive branch sought to _____________
cut non-military spending and eliminate federal regulations
Maroon communities were made up of _________
escaped slaves
Once captured Africans reached the coast, they were taken to fortified structures called _________
factories
Before 1750, nearly all slaves were ________
field hands
Before the late eighteenth century, slaves' goal in resisting was to _________
force concessions from masters
The Sahel is a(n)
huge grassland
Miscegenation resulted in a(n)
mixed-race population
The term homo sapiens refers to __________.
modern humans
Which of the following was stipulated by slave codes passed in the Chesapeake between 1660 and 1710?
slaves could not marry
After 1750, vaccinations helped reduce the incidence of ________ on board slavers
smallpox
What created enormous demand for West African slaves in sixteenth-century Brazil?
sugar plantations
Rice cultivation encouraged the development of the ___________ system in the low country
task
The peoples of the forest region were particularly important in African-American history because they played a large role in _______
the Atlantic slave trade
The preservation of _________ created the foundation for African-American century
the West African extended family
Which of the following best explains the growth in the slave population in the low country before 1750?
the arrival of new slaves from Africa
What was the main reason colonial assemblies banned interracial marriages?
to keep white women from having mixed-race children
Why did slave traders seek to separate enslaved Africans who spoke the same langauges?
to lessen the possibility of shipboard conspiracies
Why did sailors on slavers string up nets on the side of the ship?
to prevent slaves from jumping overboard
Which of the following turned Jamestown into a profitable enterprise?
tobacco cultivation
Indentured servants who worked on Chesapeake tobacco plantations sold their freedom for a number of years in exchange for __________
transportation to North America
The major early roots of African-American culture lay in the civilizations that emerged in ________
west africa
Which of the following might help explain the frequency with which enslaved women on board slavers were sexually abused?
women were worth less at sale than men were and there were fewer on board
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
Beginning in the __________, historical records in Virginia suggest a tendency to view African Americans as slaves
1640s
During the voyage to the Americas, enslaved Africans were fed_______
African foods
Why did President Reagan give his approval to the Martin Luther King jr. holiday?
After pressure from the people
Africa is bounded by the ________ to the west
Atlantic ocean
Which of the following was the first Christina state in sub-Saharan Africa
Axum
Most of the British settlers who settled in Charleston in 1670 came from ___________
Barbados
Which of the following was the earliest civilization in Africa?
Egypt
Which of the following statements best characterizes the relationship between African Americans and American Indians during the colonial period?
Indians saw African Americans as their natural allies
__________ established England's claim to the east coast of North America
John Cabot
The term "affirmative action" was first used by President _________
John F. Kennedy
African styles of architecture were most common in _________
Maryland
Ancient Egyptian society was profoundly shaped by the
Nile River
In the early 1400s, the ______ began to explore the coastline of Africa
Portuguese
What was true of Barack Obama's victory in 2008?
Race is no longer a barrier to presidency
___________ was the first African American to seek the presidential nomination of a major political party
Shirley Chisholm
Which of the following was a consequence of Proposition 209?
There were two cases including the University of Michigan and the admission rate to the University of California dropped
Where did the majority of slaves in British North America live in 1750?
Virginia and Maryland
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
In March 1991 Rodney King was beaten by Los Angeles police after ________
a high-speed chase
The "scramble" was _________
a particularly horrible form of selling slaves
Many captive Africans believed that the Europeans they encountered on the West African coast were ________
cannibals
John Newton began his involvement in the Atlantic slave trade as a(n)
indentured servant
The term miscegenation refers to _________
interracial sexual contact
Mali was _____ than Ghana
less centralized
Under chattel slavery, enslaved African Americans were the legal equivalents of _________
livestock
In the face of the consolidation of Republican power in the 1980s and early 1990s, black voters ____________
put their hopes in the Democratic party
Low-country plantations focused on the cultivation of _________
rice
What was a major component of the trans-Saharan trade?
slaves
Tabby was used in _________
the construction of houses
Which of the following played the largest role in the decline of Kush?
the decline of Rome
The journal kept by the Dutch slaver St. Jan documented _______ aboard such ships.
the poor and inadequate food supply
Historic Eric Williams has argued that __________.
the terrors of the Middle Passage have been exaggerated
