The African Diaspora
Journey to and through America
Antebellum Period
Civil War, Reconstruction, & Jim Crow
Racial Uplift
100

Most people chose areas to create settlements based on what?

Access to fresh water

100

Men were shackled below deck and women and children were kept above deck on these vessels.

Slave Ships
100

Inability to marry, possess weapons, and gather in large groups are all examples of what?

Slave codes

100

Name one way African American soldiers were discriminated against in the Union Army.

Pay, jobs, medical care, rank

100

Which group of people were fighting for equality on multiple fronts?

Black women

200

The most common factor that led to the rise of empires was what?

Trade

200

This was the root cause of the increase in the domestic slave trade.

Production of cotton

200

These Underground Railroad used these religious songs as secret messages to help enslaved people escape.

Spirituals

200

Self-liberated slaves who escaped the north and joined the Union army were known as what?

Contraband

200
During this movement, Black communities aimed to reidentify themselves and take the portrayal of the Black community into their own hands.

New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance

300

Architecture, such as structural walls designed to protect cities, was an attribute of which African kingdom?

Great Zimbabwe

300

This Supreme Court case decided the fate of Africans involved in a slave ship rebellion.

U.S. v. Amistad

300

Some enslaved people who were able to escape formed or joined free, independent Black communities known as what?

Maroon societies
300

This type of voting restriction required African Americans to pay a fee in order to vote.

Poll tax

300

The idea that Black people should leave America because government and society would never truly accept them was supported by which Black leader?

Marcus Garvey

400

Mansa Musa was able to expand the Kingdom of Mali by doing what?

Converting to Islam

400

Fill in this sentence describing the southern and northern economies. The north was more _________, while the south was more ________.

1. industrial

2. agrarian/agricultural

400

This successful revolt resulted in the creation of the first Black Republic and served as inspiration for revolts in other regions of the world.

Haitian Revolution

400

During this time period, racial violence was at an all time high in both the North and South, resulting in lynchings, mob fights, and the revival of the KKK

Red Summer/Nadir

400

Name a push factor for Afro-Caribbeans

Political instability in newly independent countries, unstable economies

500

Voodoo, regla de ocha, and the Kongo are all examples of which concept?

Religious syncretism

500
After the Elizabeth Kay case, the Commonwealth of Virginia developed this law, which stated that a person's social status was determined by the status of the mother.

Partus sequitur ventrem

500

This slave revolt, inspired by the establishment of Fort Mose, was the largest in the history of the American colonies.

Stono Rebellion

500

Name 3 policies that were implemented in the South following Reconstruction to limit the rights and opportunities of Black people.

Black codes, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, sharecropping, crop liens, convict leasing

500

The Greenwood District, which was destroyed during the Tulsa Massacre, was also known as what?

Black Wall Street