FINALS THEME 3

Question 1

What happened in Virginia 1619?

Answer 1

The first 20-ish Africans arrived as slaves in the English colonies

Question 2

Where was the Stono Rebellion?

Answer 2

A couple miles outside Charleston, South Carolina

Question 3

Who led the Stono Rebellion?

Answer 3

Enslaved warriors from Congo

Question 4

What was the first act of the Stono Rebellion?

Answer 4

Burning a store and killing the store owners, leaving their heads on the porch

Question 5

What was the goal of the Stono Rebellion?

Answer 5

Reach Florida for freedom

Question 6

How was the Stono Rebellion put down?

Answer 6

South Carolina militia fought off the rebellion with firearms

Question 7

What was the aftermath of the Stono Rebellion?

Answer 7

The heads of the rebels were put on stakes along the highway to instill fear, enslaved people were banned from learning to read to decrease their power, and drumming was banned

Question 8

Where was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

Answer 8

Inside Virginia

Question 9

Who led Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

Answer 9

Nat Turner, a self-emancipated prophet who believed God had told him to slay his enemies

Question 10

Who was killed in Nat Turner’s Rebellion? How many?

Answer 10

Over 60 white men, women, and children

Question 11

Who put down Nat Turner’s rebellion?

Answer 11

The Virginia militia

Question 12

What was Nat Turner’s motive to start the rebellion?

Answer 12

He knew how bad slavery was, causing him to act extremely

Question 13

Was the Nat Turner Rebellion successful?

Answer 13

No, but they did succeed in sending a message

Question 14

What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

Answer 14

The forcible kidnapping of Africans and their sail to the Western hemisphere

Question 15

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 15

The journey of the slaves from Western Africa to the Americas

Question 16

What are HBCUs?

Answer 16

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Question 17

Define Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 17

The federal agency that provided vocational training, schooling, and marriage licenses to formerly enslaved and poor whites

Question 18

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Answer 18

Abolished slavery in the US, except as punishment for a crime

Question 19

What did the 14th Amendment include?

Answer 19

The Equal Protection Clause

Question 20

What did the Equal Protection Clause say? (4)

Answer 20

Everyone is to be treated equally before the law
Laws cannot affect only a certain group of people
What is available to one group must be available to all
Enabled birthright citizenship

Question 21

Define birthright citizenship

Answer 21

If you are born on American soil, you are a US citizen

Question 22

What did the 15th Amendment do?

Answer 22

Made it so that all Black men could vote

Question 23

Define Black Codes

Answer 23

Laws written in the aftermath of the Civil War that only applied to the formerly enslaved and other Black people with the intention of controlling them and denying their freedoms

Question 24

Define sharecropping

Answer 24

An economic system in which a land owner allows farmers to use their land in exchange for a share of the farmer’s crop

Question 25

What was the KKK?

Answer 25

A terrorist group with the goal of scaring African Americans into obedience

Question 26

Define Jim Crow

Answer 26

A racist caricature from minstrel shows that often used black face

Question 27

Define black/yellow/red face

Answer 27

The act of wearing black/yellow/red makeup in order to portray a character of a certain race, often in an incredibly racist way

Question 28

Define Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 28

The landmark US Supreme Court decision that made it legal to separate types of people as long as the groups of people were treated equally

Question 29

Define Harlem Renaissance

Answer 29

The explosion of Black culture in art, literature, and music based in Harlem, NY that began in the 1920s

Question 30

Define lynching

Answer 30

Terrorism in the form of extra-judicial punishment and vigilantism

Question 31

Define accommodation

Answer 31

The idea that Jim Crow should not be directly challenged and that African Americans should "prove" themselves worthy of equality

Question 32

Define confrontation

Answer 32

Challenging Jim Crow through legal actions, boycotts, protests, etc.

Question 33

Define separation

Answer 33

The idea that Jim Crow and white supremacy could not be defeated and that African Americans who wanted freedom should return to Africa

Question 34

Define apologist

Answer 34

Someone who defends something that is controversial or widely considered wrong

Question 35

Define literacy test

Answer 35

Impossible tests required for African Americans to be able to vote that were designed to confuse the test taker

Question 36

Define Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 36

The order issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate-held territories

Question 37

What was Brown vs. Board?

Answer 37

The major Supreme Court case that declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional and ordered the desegregation of schools