Pre-Colonial Africa
This continent; credited as the birthplace of humanity as a species, consists of 54 countries and 2000 different active languages.
What is Africa?
This ship brought the first enslaved Africans to North America.
What is the White Lion?
This man hacked to death at least 8 individuals with a broad sword, all for the "crime" of supporting slavery.
Who is John Brown?
This amendment formally ended slavery in the United States (except as punishment for a crime).
What is the 13th Amendment?
Segregation was commonly called this, taking it's name from a popular song that was performed by White actors in blackface at that time.
What is the era of Jim Crow? (Or Jim Crow Laws)
This African King was the richest man in the world while alive, and is potentially the richest human in all of history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This is the name given to the leg of the Triangular Trade that trafficked human beings.
What is the Middle Passage?
This man led a violent uprising in Virginia which resulted in the deaths of at least 55 white people... and an estimated 100–200 Black people in retaliation.
Who is Nat Turner?
This action freed the slaves in States that seceded from the Union.. but did not end slavery in the United States completely.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Anansi the Trickster takes the form of this creature in the popular folk tales about his adventures in the Ashanti tradition.
What is a Spider?
This religion was very important to the Kingdom of Kongo.
What is Christianity?
Raw materials from the New World were sent to Europe to be used in manufacturing, manufactured goods were sent to Africa and the New World, and enslaved human beings were sent from Africa to the New World and Europe in what system?
What is the Triangular Trade? (Or Columbian Exchange)
Black people were not, and could not ever be citizens of the United States according to the precedent set in this Supreme Court case.
What is the Dred Scott Decision? (Or Sanford V. Scott)
This Amendment made it so you could not deny the right to vote based on race.. but didn't stop one from denying another the right to vote based on any other criteria.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Araminta (Minty) Ross is the birth name of what well known woman?
In the Mali culture, history is typically passed down to the next generation through this tradition.
What is the Oral tradition?
This system ensured that children born to enslaved mothers would also be enslaved, ending the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, but not the institution of slavery itself.
What is Chattel Slavery?
This woman not only personally escorted more than 70 families North to freedom, she also was one of only a few women to ever lead United States troops in combat, taking part in the Combahee River Raid that rescued an additional 700 enslaved people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This amendment granted citizenship to every person born in the United States and guaranteed them equal protection of their rights by the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Segregation was considered legal because of this court case, and this majority opinion.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson and the "Separate but Equal" response to the 14th Amendment?
This term is used to describe the voluntary and involuntary movement of Africans and their descendants to various parts of the world during the modern and pre-modern periods.
What is the African Diaspora?
This country imported the most enslaved Africans during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade period.
What is Brazil?
This woman was born into slavery, yet made a name for herself as a nurse during the Civil War, and a teacher for freed blacks after the war.
Who is Susie King Taylor?
This agency was created to help house, educate, and assist newly freed black people in the United States.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
These two drugs, and these two groups, were targeted specifically by the Nixon government as part of the War on Drugs for political reasons.
Who are Anti War Protestors and Marijuana, and Black people and Heroin?