Theories of History
Individual people and/or small groups of people, through the power of their character or intellect, determine the course of history.
What is Great Man Theory?
Coping with a horrifying life of meaninglessness, hopelessness, and part of the lived reality of race.
What is nihilism?
Name one of the major crops grown by slaves
What is sugar cane/tobacco/cotton?
The movie Birth of a Nation followed the story of which famous revolutionary?
Who is Nat Turner?
What is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time?
What is Climate Change?
The world is shaped by the efforts of ordinary people, not small elite groups or individuals.
What is Everyman Theory?
The false idea that the United States is the best country in the world.
What is American exceptionalism?
The imperial power that initiated the slave trade
What is Portugal?
The Movie Crash showed the current consequence of what historic age?
What is The Age of Exploration AKA. The Age of Exploitation?
The ability to attribute mental states- beliefs, intents, desires, pretending, knowledge, etc.
What is Theory of Mind?
The natural environment is a major determinant of history, determining the potential and needs of groups of people?
What is Geographic Theory?
Three aspects of racism.
What is dominative, aversive, metaracism?
Three reasons why black slaves replaced the natives as slaves
What are cheap, plentiful, and easily identifiable?
What is the current consequence of slaves not being able to own land?
What is economic inequality?
The mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values?
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
History is the story of the struggle between different social classes: powerful groups that control wealth and resources, and the powerless groups who struggle to survive.
What is Marxist Theory?
What were the Jim Crow laws about?
What is segregation?
Name one difference between slavery in Africa and slavery in Europe
What is they had rights/not lifelong/not morally crippling/not destructive of family ties/not without hope?
Who said of slavery that "you can make $257 profit on every Negro in a year and only spend $12 or $13"
Who is James Madison?
Change that is in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
What is Evolution?
Name these two historical theories:
I: History repeats itself; There is no real progress.
II: History is about progress; The world is constantly improving.
What is Cyclical Theory & Linear Theory?
The subjugation of one group by another to perform work or services without pay or compensation
What is slavery?
The Compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This was the height between decks on the typical slave ship
What is eighteen inches?
“The problem of the 20thcentury is the problem of the color-line.”
What is the Color-Line?