Unit 1
Historians, storytellers, and musicians who maintained and shared the stories, traditions, and cultural practices of a community.
What are griots?
These regions were considered the most favorable areas for emigration because they had large populations of colored people, shared histories, and a promising climate.
What is Central and South America?
The rebuilding of a Southern society after war, mainly centered on replacing a society built on slavery.
What is Reconstruction?
A movement that promoted self-determination, defended violence as a strategy, and strove to emphasize cultural pride
What is the Black Power Movement?
A persuasive technique that uses logic and moral arguments to influence people to behave in a certain way
What is moral suasian?
The causes of the Bantu expansion across the African continent.
What are technological and agricultural innovations?
The free and enslaved Africans familiar with Iberian culture and language who journeyed with Europeans on their explorations to the Americas.
What are Ladinos?
The student choir that introduced religious and musical tradition of African American spirituals to the global stage during their tours
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
The bill designed to provide funds for college tuition, low-cost homes mortgages, and low-interest business startup loans for American veterans
What is the G.I. Bill?
The book written by Ida B. Wells that exposed lynching as a tool of white supremacy
What is The Red Record?
This empire is best known for their large stone architecture.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
The name of the inhabited island in Africa that was turned into a Portuguese colony.
What is São Tomé?
A new federal agency that provided relief, food, shelter, and education to newly freed people
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?
The "Big Four" civil rights organizations
What is the NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, and CORE?
The first Black Christian denomination in the U.S.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)?
An iconic example of women's leadership in ancient Africa and the first iyoba of the Kingdom of Benin.
Who is Queen Idia of Benin?
This event occurred on September 9, 1739, a group of enslaved people led by Jemmy burned plantations and marched towards sanctuary in Spanish Florida. A colonial militia caught up to them and decapitated some of the rebels, making them a warning to those who thought of escaping.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
An immigrant from Jamaica and led the most significant political movement to come out of the Harlem Renaissance. Led the largest pan-African movement
Who is Marcus Garvey?
The Black Panther Part for Self-Defense’s program that called for freedom from oppression and imprisonment, access to housing, healthcare, education, and employment opportunities
What is the Ten-Point Program?
The "mother of the Civil Rights Movement"
Who is Ella Baker?
The first African society to adopt Christianity.
What is the Aksumite Empire?
When Harriet Tubman liberated around 150 enslaved people and became the first American woman to lead a major military operation.
What is the Cambahee River Raid?
Where Southern prisons profited by hiring out African American men imprisoned for minor charges to landowners and corporations
What is convict leasing?
The order that banned discrimination in defense industries and government jobs
What is Executive Order 8802 (1941)?
The 9 contemporary regions where Africans were forcibly taken for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
What are Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, and Mozambique?