Misc. Category
This song was written originally as a poem by Poet, James Weldon Johnson, and later put to music by his brother and became what is known as "The Negro National Anthem"
What is Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
This term or "2nd leg of the trade" refers to the brutal journey enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is "The Middle Passage"
She was known as "Moses" for leading enslaved people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman
These 3 amendments are often known as the "Reconstruction Amendments"
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
This term describes the cultural, artistic, and social explosion among African-Americans during the 1920s and earlier.
What is the Harlem Renaissance (Duval Renaissance *Cough*)
Images that were created to shape certain perspectives of the "Negros" behavior in the 1800-1900s were called
What are caricatures
European powers exchanged these goods for enslaved Africans.
What are guns and textiles?
This network helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
During Reconstruction, this agency was established to assist freedmen.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
This magazine, published by the NAACP, became a platform for Harlem Renaissance writers.
What is The Crisis
This mineral that is commonly used in food was once more valuable than even Gold in Africa
What is salt
This term specifically references the type of slavery that was created in the United States
What is Chattel Slavery
This document declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This compromise ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877
This man wrote the book, "Souls of Black Folk" which coined the term "Double Consciousness"
Who is WEB Dubois
This religion spread across Western Africa through trade and influenced the region's culture.
What is Islam?
Enslaved Africans primarily worked on these types of plantations in the Americas.
What are sugar and cotton plantations?
This rebellion in Virginia was led by an enslaved man in 1831.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion
This group, founded in 1866, used terror to suppress African Americans during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
This intellectual and activist coined the term "The New Negro" during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Alain Locke
This musical style, born in New Orleans, thrived during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Jazz
This act, passed by Britain in 1807, outlawed the transatlantic slave trade.
What is the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ultimately denied citizenship to African Americans even if they moved to a free state.
What is Dred Scott vs Sanford
What laws were developed to keep African-Americans suppressed during the Reconstruction and promote segregation?
What are the Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes
This nightclub became a famous venue for jazz and blues during the Harlem Renaissance, but it had a whites-only audience policy.
What is the Cotton Club