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2nd Exam MC Flashcards

1
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types of african stereotypes

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  • mammy
  • jezebel
  • jim crow
  • sambo
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mammy

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  • female house-slave
  • good cook
  • nurturer
  • breastfeeder
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jezebel

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-sexually promiscuous, immoral, uncontrolled lust

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jim crow

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  • an african american field hand
  • dressed in rags, battered hat, torn shoes
  • quick
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sambo

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  • very happy, usually laughing

- lazy, irresponsible, carefree

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coded items

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  • concealing religious artifacts, prayers, and symbolism through synchronized codes
  • used as a survival strategy by cuban african slaves to maintain religious beliefs
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historical trauma

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  • emotional and psychological wounding of an individual or generation
  • caused by a traumatic experience or event
  • refers to the past and present impact
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adaptation

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-finding a balance between the need of a population and the potential of its environment

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survival strategies

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-modes of dealing with conditions forced upon people

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multicultural revolutionary war

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-a lot of slaves were in it but are usually never depicted in photos

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abolitionist

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-a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution

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12
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townshend act definition

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  • 1767
  • tax on everything by the king
  • colonists just took bc they have no representation to have a say
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townshend act significance

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-they helped to reignite anger in the colonies against England

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divine right of kings

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  • kings derived their authority from God

- couldn’t be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament or the church

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misinformation

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-false info that spreads

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5Ws

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  • who made it
  • what was it made for
  • when
  • where
  • why
17
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crispus attucks

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-first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution

18
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age of enlightenment definition

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  • european historical time period where education, individualism, and social activities prospered
  • a time of rejection of faith
19
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age of enlightenment significance

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-led directly to the American Revolution

20
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what was women’s role in the new england area?

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  • women were more affluent; did more cultural practices; working class women were
  • women had to take care of children and cook
21
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working class women

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  • started to work to provide for family

- where the women standards started to break

22
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new england colonies

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  • closest to England culture

- most homogeneity bc everyone spoke english and had the same religion; conservative

23
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middle colonies

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  • most diverse
  • real people that were running away from Europe (wanted to better their lives) -wanted freedom of religion; personal freedom
  • most were trying to escape conditions in Europe
  • quakers were dominant
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southern colonies

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  • people were there to make business
  • English took control and they were dominant; production of all sorts of fabrics to export to Europe
  • cotton was the crop
  • this area was where they most thought of slaves as property
25
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what area was the most accepting of gender? and why?

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  • middle colonies

- more tolerant there

26
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just friends concept

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-refers to same sex relationships but considering them as just romantic or intimate friendships

27
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the american man

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  • was almost nothing like the traditional Englishman
  • known for being “bold, rugged, aggressive, unafraid of fighting, and comfortable asserting himself”
  • only rich white men can go to the militia at this time
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bartolome de las casas

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  • in an effort to help the indigenous people of the New world, the priest pleased with Prince Phillip II of Spain to stop the rampant massacre he was witnessing
  • he pointed out that 400,000 Arawak Indians sent to Hispaniola for labor had all died
  • he was responsible for the slave trade; he basically got the ball to start rolling with it
29
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syncretism definition during forced assimilation period

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-bc slaves’s culture was stripped, they had to create one that shared attributes so they created this one

30
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how did slaves use adaptation during the forced assimilation of religion period?

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-syncretism

31
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santeria religion

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-combined catholic and slave religion

32
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how did st barbara and chango have an impact on syncretism and slave adaption?

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-yoruba slaves coded st. barbara as a representation of their own religious deity

33
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how does misinformation relate to the paul revere’s “bloody massacre”?

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-bias

34
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disinformation

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  • defined as deliberately misleading or biased information

- propaganda

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