Early African American History
What term describes a person who is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years, typically of European descent.
Indentured Servant
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13 Amendment
Where is Harlem?
New York
What Supreme Court case desegregated schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
True or false: The Black Panther Party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality
True
What term describes a system of human enslavement where one person owns another person and their offspring as property?
Chattel Slavery
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Name three art forms that flourished in the Harlem Renaissance.
Poetry, prose, painting, sculpture, jazz, swing, opera, and dance
Who led large-scale, nonviolent protests against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the social movement dedicated to fighting racism and anti-Black violence, especially police brutality?
Black Lives Matter
What portion of the Triangular Trade refers to the part of the voyage taken by enslaved Africans?
The Middle Passage
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave African American men the right to vote.
Name two push factors that played a role in the Great Migration.
Racial violence and Jim Crow Laws
Name 3 forms of resistance during the 1950s-1960s civil rights movement.
Sit-ins, boycotts, protest marches, freedom rides, and lobbying government officials for legislative action
What year did BLM form?
2013
True or False: A majority of enslaved people in the US were born into slavery.
True
What government agency provided assistance (food, education, and legal aid) to newly freed African Americans?
The Freedman's Bureau
Name two pull factors that played a role in the Great Migration.
Who believed that Black people should practice self-defense in response to white racial violence. He claimed that violence was a right, but he never advocated for initiating violence.
Malcolm X
What incident led to the formation of the BLM movement?
The killing of Trayvon Martin and the exoneration of his killer.
Name at least 3 ways that enslaved people resisted their enslavement.
Running away to freedom, rebellions, breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage.
What is the term for the set of state and local laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the US from the 1880s to the 1960s?
Jim Crow Laws
Who originally sang the song "Strange Fruit"?
Billie Holiday
Who coined the phrase “Black Power” and had an approach to civil rights that was increasingly militant.
Stokely Carmichael
Name one of the founders of The Black Panther Party.
Bobby Seale or Huey P. Newton