Unit 1
This 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire made his legendary pilgrimage to Mecca that showcased his immense wealth and established his reputation as one of the richest individuals in history
Mansa Musa
With less oversight, some enslaved people found the autonomy to maintain linguistic practices and dances like the ring shout, such as in this group that developed in the Carolina Lowcountry.
Gullah
What rights were gained from the Reconstruction Amendments? What number Amendment goes with each?
13th - Abolished Slavery
14th - Voting
15th - Citizenship
Name two ways that neighborhoods segregation was enforced
Redlining, Restrictive Covenants, limiting home loans, White Citizens Councils, racial violence...
Wade in the Water, I shall not be moved, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Kendrick Lamar, MJ, etc...
In West African societies, these storytellers and oral historians are known for passing down the history, legends, and cultural heritage through their captivating narratives and music.
Griots
This was a White-led organization that drove earlier attempts to colonize parts of Africa in order to relocate free Black people from the U.S.
American Colonization Society
This organization was responsible for managing property abandoned and confiscated during the Civil War, but its primary function was to assist formerly enslaved people as they transitioned into American citizens.
Freedmen's Bureau
Name two influential Black Muslims
Muhammad Ali, Malcom X, WD Fard
Name four cash crops
Indigo, cotton, sugar, tobacco
Found within the archaeological complex of [THIS SOCIETY], this remarkable stone structure stands out as the largest single ancient building in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Great Zimbabwe
The emancipation from slavery offered by Spanish Florida to slaves fleeing the British colonies inspired this rebellion in South Carolina in 1739. Led by Jemmy, an enslaved man from the Angola region, nearly 100 enslaved African Americans set fire to plantations and marched toward sanctuary in Spanish Florida.
Stono Rebellion
Union General William Sherman issued Special Order No. 15 which redistributed about 400,000 acres in South Carolina and Florida to newly freed people assigned in small parcels. This gave rise to which phrase?
40 Acres and a Mule
This literary genre imagines a reality in which systemic racism has been eradicated
Afrofuturism
This author was inspired by the murder of 3 of her friends to begin recording examples of lynchings in a book called The Red Record.
Ida B Wells
This 15th-century African ruler, renowned for her fierce resistance against Portuguese colonial forces and her strategic diplomacy, is a symbol of African resistance and leadership.
Queen Nzinga
What person sued and began the court case which decided African Americans were not citizens so they could not have the rights as free people?
Dred Scott
This hair care entrepreneur and innovator preached Black economic advancement and promoted giving away money to local Black communities.
These two movements were inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, but took place in the Caribbean and Europe
Negritude and Negrismo
This marks the end of slavery in the last state of rebellion—Texas. It commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed that they were free by Major-General Gordon Granger’s reading of General Order No. 3. This order was the first document to mention racial equality through “an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.”
Juneteenth
This term, often observed in religion and culture, describes the blending or reconciliation of different beliefs, practices, or traditions into a harmonious and unified whole.
Syncretism
This 17th-century law, defined a child’s legal status based on the status of its mother and held significant consequences for enslaved African Americans.
Partus Sequitur Ventrum
The Greenwood district in Tulsa, destroyed in the massacre in 1921, is better known as this.
Black Wall St
This sprinter demolished world records at the Berlin Olympics in front of Hitler
Jesse Owens
This American tennis player, often regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time, has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
Serena Williams