Origins of the African Diaspora
This is the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland
What is the African Diaspora?
This Kingdom in Africa willingly converted to Christianity because there were a lot of similarities with their own cosmologies and then they combined those cosmologies and beliefs with Christianity/Catholicism.
What is the Kingdom of Kongo?
What are work songs?
This revolt was led by Charles Deslondes. It was the largest revolt in the US, with 500 slaves participated. They marched toward New Orleans and shouted "Freedom or death.
What is the Louisiana Revolt of 1811?
She was the first woman millionaire in the U.S. She developed products that highlighted the beauty of Black people.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
This is the birthplace of Humanity and the ancestral home of African Americans
What is Africa?
This queen became the first queen mother in the Kingdom of Benin. She served as a political advisor to her son, the King. Described as a fierce warrior, she was known for being the first woman to lead a group to battle and return victorious.
Who is Queen Idia of Benin?
DAILY DOUBLE. The first time the word "save" appeared was in this amendment
What is the 13th amendment?
These places consisted of self-emancipated people and those born free in the community. Some lasted a few years while others lasted for a full century. They created autonomous spaces where African language and culture were fully embraced.
What are maroon communities?
Discrimination and Segregation in education led African Americans to found their own colleges, the majority of which were established after the Civil war.
What are HBCUs?
What is Negrismo?
These are the five primary climate ones on the African climate
What is Desert, Semiarid, Savanna grasslands, Tropical rainforests, and Mediterranean zone?
These Africans traveled with Europeans in their earliest explorations of the Americas and they were familiar with multiple languages, culutural norms, and commercial practicies.
Who are the Black Ladinos?
These were laws that deepened racial divides in American society by reserving opportunities for upward mobility for white people. These regulations manifested in slaveholding societies throughout the Americas, including the Code Noir and Codigo Negro in French and Spanish colonies.
What are the Slave codes?
DAILY DOUBLE. These were the five Indigenous Nations that had enslaved Africans
Who are the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole?
This movement encouraged African Americans to define their own identity and advocate for themselves politically in the midst of the nadir's atrocities.
What is the New Negro Movement?
In 1954, the supreme court ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in this decision. It repealed the "separate but equal" law established from the Plessy V. Ferguson. This outlawed segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
DAILY DOUBLE. This is where people grew kola trees and yams while also trading gold
What are tropical rainforests?
He was a conquistador born in the Kingdom of Kongo who moved to Lisbon Portugal. A free man, he came the first known African to arrive in North America when he explored present-day Florida during a Spanish expedition in 1513.
Who is Juan Garrido?
This amendment allowed Black men to vote briefly during reconstruction
This promoted Black unity, self-determination, pride, and self-sufficiency.
What is Black Nationalism?
This refers to the internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in an oppressive society. It gave African Americans a way to examine the unequal realities of American life. It resulted from social alienation created through racism and discrimination.
What is double-consciousness?
This organization was for in 1909 as an interracial organization that fought discrimination and racial violence primarily through legal campaigns.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This migration took place from 1500 BCE to 500 CE. This expansion was important because it led to a lot of linguistic diversity.
What is the Bantu Migration?
This was the journey from Africa to the Americas that transported slaves.
This 17th century law says that a child's legal status was based on their mother's status. Children were automatically seen as properity.
What is Partus sequitur ventrem?
These people saw abolition as a means to achieve the liberation, representation, and full integration of African Americans in society. They didn't believe they should have to leave the US. Frederick Douglas was one of them.
Who were the Anti-Emigrationists?
He led the largest pan-African movement in African American history as the founder of the UNIA, which aimed to unite all Black people and maintained thousands of members in countries throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. He popularized the Black to Africa movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
DAILY DOUBLE. She became known as the "mother of the civil rights movement" for her major impact on the NAACP, the SCLC, and the SNCC. She focused on grassroots and organizing and encouraged young people to contribute to social justice efforts that fought both racism and sexism.
Who is Ella Baker?
They are known for their terracotta sculptures, pottery, and stone instruments, which remain some of the best evidence of a complex, settled society.
What is the Nok Society?
DAILY DOUBLE. Europeans traded guns for gold which allowed African states to do what
What is expand?
This rule classified a person with any degree of African descent as Black.
What is the One-Drop Rule?
This was a covert network of Black and white abolitionists who provided transportation, shelter, and other resources to help enslaved African Americans fleeing the south resettle in free territories in the US.
What is the underground railroad?
DAILY DOUBLE. This was a flourishing of Black literary, artistic, and intellectual life that created a cultural revolution in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
In the 50s-60s, African American writers, leaders, and activists visited Africa to express solidarity and support for Africa'a decolonization.
What is Pan-Africanism?
This is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thoughts.
What is syncretic?
Staging hunger strikes, attempting to jump overboard rather than be enslaved, overcoming linguistic differences to form revolts, made the slave trade more expensive and dangerous, and led to changes in the design of slave ships
What is the resistance?
This organization was founded with the goal of sending free Black people back to Africa
This authorized local governments to legally kidnap and return escaped refugges to their enslavers.
What is the fugitive slave acts?
This was was one of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history. Six million African Americans relocated from the South to the North, Midwest, and western United States from 1910s to 1970s.
What is the Great Migration?
During the mid 60s, some african americans embraced Black Power, a movement that promoted self-determination defended violence as a viable strategy, and strove to transform Black consciousness by emphasizing cultural pride.
What is the Black Power movement?
This place is best known for its large stone architecture, which offered military defense and served a s hub for a long-distance trade.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
This is where enslaved people would be sold.
What are slave auctions?
This was the ONLY uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a French colonial, slaveholding government.
What is the Haitian revolution?
DAILY DOUBLE. He was the most photographed man of the 19th century.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
This was the first HBCU that was fully owned and operated by African Americans. It was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1856.
What is Wilberforce University?
He was a muslim minister and activist, who championed the principle of Black autonomy and encouraged African Americans to build their own social, economic, and political institutions instead of prioritizing integration. He not only encouraged African Americans to vote, but also to exercise the second amendment's right to keep and bear arms.
Who is Malcolm X?