Unit 1
This trade route connected West Africa to North Africa and Europe.
Answer: What is the Trans-Saharan Trade Route?
The transatlantic journey of enslaved Africans to the Americas was called this.
Answer: What is the Middle Passage?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Answer: What is the 13th Amendment?
This post-Civil War military order proposed granting 40 acres of land to freed slaves.
Answer: What is Sherman’s Order 15?
This social justice movement, inspired by the death of Sandra Bland, seeks to amplify the stories of Black women who have been victims of police violence.
Answer: What is the Say Her Name movement?
This empire was founded by Sundiata Keita in the 13th century.
Answer: What is the Mali Empire?
This legal compromise counted enslaved individuals as three-fifths of a person for representation purposes.
Answer: What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This organization was created to assist former slaves during Reconstruction.
Answer: What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This U.S. president opposed the 14th Amendment and had more lenient Reconstruction policies than Congress.
Answer: Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1990s rapper, known for his song Changes, used his music to highlight systemic racism, poverty, and police brutality, themes echoed in Stamped.
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Answer: Who is Tupac Shakur?
What country was the first to participate in the transatlantic slave trade?
Portugal
Phillis Wheatley achieved fame as the first African American to do this.
Answer: What is publishing a book of poetry?
This speech by Sojourner Truth advocated for gender and racial equality.
Answer: What is "Ain’t I a Woman?"
These three amendments to the U.S. Constitution aimed to abolish slavery, guarantee citizenship, and protect voting rights for African Americans.
Answer: What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This 2002 federal education policy, discussed in Stamped, aimed to improve education standards but disproportionately affected underfunded schools serving Black and Brown communities.
Answer: What is No Child Left Behind?
A Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
What is mercantilism?
These laws were enacted to maintain social control and enforce slavery.
Answer: What are Slave Codes?
This battle marked the start of the Civil War.
Answer: What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Answer: What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This phrase, popularized by Stokely Carmichael, symbolized pride in Black identity and the fight for self-determination during the 1960s.
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Answer: What is "Black Power"?
) God, Glory, Gold
What were the three G’s that motivated European exploration?
]These two arguments were used by Elizabeth Key in court to defend her freedom.
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Answer: What are "She was baptized as a Christian" and "Her father was a free white man"?
After his heroic act of commandeering a Confederate ship during the Civil War, this man served five terms in the U.S. House of Representativesand this man became the first African American U.S. Senator during Reconstruction.
Answer: Who is Robert Smalls and Hiram Revels
Known as the "Moses of her people," this woman played a major role in the Underground Railroad, helping enslaved individuals escape to freedom.
Answer: Who is Harriet Tubman?
This act outlawed discriminatory voting practices in 1965.
Answer: What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?