6 British South Asia
This Indian leader promoted passive resistance and wrote Hind Swaraj in 1909.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This revolution, led by formerly enslaved people, overthrew French rule in Saint-Domingue.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This term refers to the forced westward migration of tribes like the Cherokee, who walked the "Trail of Tears".
What is forced removal?
This young woman challenged her enslavement in colonial Ghana in a historic 1876 court case.
Who is Abina Mansah?
This author introduced the concept of double-consciousness in The Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Gandhi argued this type of resistance, based on truth and nonviolence, was more powerful than armed revolt.
What is satyagraha or civil disobedience?
He was the former slave who became the main military leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1881 book exposed over a century of U.S. treaty violations with Native tribes.
What is A Century of Dishonor?
This key commodity, used in soap and machinery, became central to British trade in West Africa.
What is palm oil?
Booker T. Washington’s famous 1895 speech promoted economic self-help over civil rights and was known by this name.
(Hint: It's named after the largest city in the state Georgia.)
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
This industry, symbolized by the spinning wheel, was central to Gandhi’s vision of village-based economics.
What is hand-spun cloth or khadi?
In The Black Jacobins, historian C.L.R. James argues that these people—not abolitionists—were the true agents of emancipation.
Who are enslaved Africans?
In 1893, this famous historian argued that the frontier experience shaped American democracy.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
Abina and the Important Men takes place in this British colony, now known as Ghana. (Hint: It's named for an important raw material.)
What is the Gold Coast?
This post-slavery government program aimed to assist freed people with education and legal support.
(Hint: It's two words. The first word is a term for formerly enslaved men. The second word is the "B" in FBI.)
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Gandhi opposed modern civilization for prioritizing this kind of welfare over moral and spiritual needs.
What is bodily welfare or material comfort?
This French slogan exposed contradictions when applied to colonies still practicing slavery.
What is “All men are born free and equal”?
This U.S. law broke up tribal lands and aimed to assimilate Native Americans by offering private property.
What is the Dawes Act?
This British legal strategy claimed to oppose slavery but often ignored it to maintain colonial relationships.
What is selective or inconsistent enforcement of anti-slavery laws?
Du Bois called the system of racial laws in the post-Reconstruction South by this name.
(Hint: It's three words. The first two are named after a stereotypical blackface character. The last word is "segregation".)
What is Jim Crow segregation?
According to Gandhi, Indians would end up with 'English rule without the Englishman' if they didn't learn to do this.
This 1790 revolt led by Vincent Ogé demanded rights for free people of color but ended in his execution.
What is the Vincent Ogé uprising?
Frederick Jackson Turner claimed that American character was shaped by this disappearing national boundary.
What is the frontier?
The book’s courtroom section is based on this kind of document, a verbatim (word-for-word) record of a real trial.
What is a court transcript?
Du Bois used this metaphor to describe the separation and misunderstanding between white and Black Americans.
What is the Veil?