RANDOM 1
What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and early 1930s?
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
What was the most long-lasting impact of the Freedman’s Bureau?
PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND HBCUS
What was the first serious uprising among slaves took place in 1739 and resulted in passage of the Negro Act, which placed restrictions on the ability of slaves in South Carolina to assemble and move freely?
STONO REBELLION
Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961, forcing US Marshals to escort him to class?
JAMES MEREDITH
Who left a wealthy slave-owning family in South Carolina to become an Abolitionist?
GRIMKE' SISTERS
Which goods did Europeans trade for slaves in Africa in the triangular trade system?
OVERSEERS
During the age of slavery in America, the U.S. constitution counted every slave as ________ of a person.
3/5
What tactic did MLK use?
nonviolence
Plantation owners in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because ________.
Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?
MADAM CJ WALKER
How did many Americans became aware of the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement?
TV news programs
What did the Executive Order 9981 do?
desegregated the military
After an early childhood spent in Barbabos and a successful career as a teacher, she was elected to the New York Assembly. She then became the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress where she worked for 13 years. Name her.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Mansa Musa's country of Mali was also rich in resources like.....
GOLD AND SALT
Which of the following groups challenged laws to bring about change during the Civil Rights Movement?
NAACP
In 1961 groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips in the South to test desegregation of buses and restaurants. By what name was this group known?
FREEDOM RIDERS
Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting freed slaves from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited the movement of the freed slaves?
BLACK CODES
What section of New York City became the capital of urban Black American culture?
HARLEM
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
MIDDLE PASSAGE
Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?
What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?
TUSKEGEE
What White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to join the attack on Harper‟s Ferry?
JOHN BROWN
Laws passed by southern states soon after the Compromise of 1877. These laws legalized segregation between whites and blacks to use separate facilities.
Jim Crow LAWS
Where did the “sit-in” movement begin?
GREENSBORO, NC
Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
THURGOOD MARSHALL