Freedmen Resistance
Enslaved Resistance
Cultural Expression
Terrible Twos
The Almighty Dollar
100
Provide a concrete example of how free African Americans organized against slavery.
Abolitionist newspapers; speeches; vigilance committees; underground railroad; etc.
100
What are some of the everyday acts of resistance used by enslaved people?
family; cultural preservation; breaking tools; slow working; feigning ignorance; etc.
100
Describe an example of African-American artistic expression that shows evidence of cultural syncretization.
For example: Spirituals; the Blues; Black Masking Indians; basket weaving techniques; banjos; quilting
100
What are two ways Black political rights were suppressed in the Jim Crow era.
pole taxes; grandfather clauses; literacy tests; threats and terrorism; etc.
100
What are some of the economic roles enslaved workers played (besides field work)?
domestic labor; musicianship; brickmaking; nailmaking; etc.
200
Provide a concrete example of how African Americans resisted Jim Crow segregation and terror in the period before the Civil Rights Movement.
street car boycotts (Mobile, e.g.); moving to Northern Cities; investigative journalism (Red Record, e.g.); etc.
200
What were some of the methods enslaved women used to resist sexual violence or commodified reproduction by their enslavers?
fighting back; running away; infanticide; inducing abortion; etc.
200
Describe traditional Freedom Days celebrations.
new clothes; parades; dances; singing spirituals; feasting
200
Name two of the Sudanic Empires. Which came first chronologically?
Ghana-->Mali-->Songhai
200
How did the sharecropping system work?
landowner: loan to tenant farmer; tenant farmer buys tools, seed, etc.; tenant farmer grows cash crops (esp. cotton); tenant farmer sells crop back to landowner (often at manipulated prices)
300
What is the difference between emmigratoinism, moral suasionism, and radical abolitionism?
Bonus: name a Black radical abolitionist
Emmigration - let's go somewhere free
Suasionism - appeal to whites' morals
Radical - abolition here by any means necessary
Bonus: Frederick Douglass (late career) Henry Highland Garnet
300
Name a slave rebellion, and name a leader of it.
Stono: Jemmy
Creole: Madison Washington
Nat Turner's Rebellion: Nat Turner
German Coast: Charles Deslondes
Denmark Veysey: Charleston Conspiracy
Haitian Revolution: Toussaint Louverture; Jean-Jacques Dessalines
300
The Nok culture is famous for iron smelting and producing sculptures made in what medium?
Terra cotta.
300
Name two women from from the pre-Civil Rights period who could be described as Black feminists. Why do they count?
Maria Stewart - first Black women to publish a political manifesto; early "intersectionality" analysis
Sojourner Truth - tied abolitionism to women's experiences (early "intersectionality" analysis)
Ida B. Wells - suffrage and anti-lynching
300
What were the economic effects of the transatlantic slave trade on West African states?
depopulation-->reduced productivity; dependance on exports to Europe/colonies; etc.
400
What are the Reconstruction Amendments, and what were their primary legal effects?
XIII: abolition of chattel slavery
XIV: birthright citizenship; equal protection;
XV: suffrage
400
Give a specific example of a Maroon community in the Western hemisphere.
Examples: Haitian; the Great Dismal Swamp; Jamaica (Queen Nanny); Quilombo dos Palmares (Brazil); 16th c. Panama (Bayano)
400
Name a specific literary works from before the Civil Rights period that challenge dominant narratives about Black people or African American culture?
Slave narratives: Frederick Douglass, etc.
Poems: Phyllis Wheatley "On Being Taken"; Claude McKay "If We Must Die"
Oratory: Douglass -- What to the Slave is the 4th of July; Garnet--Message to American Slaves; etc.
400
Describe two specific massacres of African Americans in the United States in the pre-Civil Rights Era.
New York Draft Riot, 1863: Chiefly Irish immigrants attacked and murdered Black New Yorkers, including burning down an orphanage
Wilmington, 1898: white mobs attacked Black people to seize control of the local government
Tulsa, 1921: white mobs attacked and burned down "Black Wall Street"
400
What economic development led to the "second middle passage"?
Bonus: How many people were transported as part of the second middle passage?
Cotton gin-->development of profitable cotton economy in the deep south
Bonus: One million
500
Roughly how many Black men served in the American armed forces during the Civil War?
Bonus: What percentage of them were previously enslaved?
200,000
Bonus: 75%
500
About how many people are estimated to have liberated themselves from slavery through the Underground Railroad?
30,000
500
This ivory mask was adopted as the symbol for the Second World Black Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977. Whose face does it depict?
Queen-Mother Idia of Benin
500
Name two Black women who commanded troops in battle. Bonus points if they come from different continents.
Africa: Queen-Mother Idia of Benin; Njinga of Ndongo-Matamba (against the Portuguese)
Americas: Harriet Tubman (US Army forces); Queen Nanny (maroon forces against the English in Jamaica)
500
What was the most profitable cash crop commonly grown on slave plantations during the 17th century?
Bonus: What was the most profitable European colony in the 18th century?
sugarcane
Bonus: Saint Domingue (Haiti)