African American History 4

Question 1

First black US marshal appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes. District of Columbia

Answer 1

Frederick Douglass

Question 2

Six thousand African Americans leave Louisiana and Mississippi for Kansas in what will be known as the Exodus. Henry Adams and ____ were major leaders

Answer 2

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

Question 3

Opens Tuskegee institute in central Alabama

Answer 3

Booker T. Washington

Question 4

Frederick Douglass is appointed minister of ____

Answer 4

Haiti

Question 5

Begins anti-lynching campaign with publication of Southern Horrors:Lynch Law and in All Its Phases and speech in New York City’s lyric hall

Answer 5

Ida B. Wells

Question 6

First African American to receive Ph.D. From Harvard university

Answer 6

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 7

Booker T. Washington delivers this address at Atlanta Cotton States Exposition–Negro problem would be solved by policy of gradualism and accommodation

Answer 7

Atlanta Compromise

Question 8

United States Supreme Court rules southern segregation laws and practices (Jim Crow) dont conflict with 13 and 14 amendments.

Answer 8

Plessey v. Ferguson

Question 9

Appointed director of agricultural research at Tuskegee institute . Advances peanut, sweet potato, and soybean farming.

Answer 9

George Washington Carver

Question 10

Only males whose fathers or grandfathers were qualified to vote on January 1, 1867 are automatically registered.

Answer 10

Grandfather Clause

Question 11

Composes Maple Leaf Rag. Introduces ragtime music to the United States

Answer 11

Scott Joplin

Question 12

Teddy Roosevelt holds meeting at White House with Booker T. Washington making him first black American to dine at White House

Question 13

Booker T. Washington’s autobiography

Answer 13

Up From Slavery

Question 14

Published on April 27. Du Bois rejects gradualism of Booker T. Washington, calling for agitation on behalf of African American rights

Answer 14

The Souls of Black Folks

Question 15

Created on July 11-13 by African American intellectuals and activists, led by Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter

Answer 15

Niagara Movement

Question 16

Formed on February 12 in New York City partly in response to Springfield Riot

Answer 16

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Question 17

Published “Memphis Blues” in Memphis

Answer 17

W.C. Handy

Question 18

African Americans from South to Northern cities begins

Answer 18

The Great Migration

Question 19

Oklahoma grandfather clause is overturned by ______

Answer 19

Guinn v. United States

Question 20

Founds New York Division of Universal Negro Improvement Association with 16 members. At height claims 2 million members.

Answer 20

Marcus Garvey

Question 21

Publishes “If We Must Die”. Considered one of first major examples of Harlem Renaissance writing

Answer 21

Claude McKay

Question 22

Decade of the 1920s. Remarkable period of creativity for black writers, poets, and artists including Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 22

Harlem Renaissance

Question 23

First African American to graduate from West Point

Answer 23

Henry O. Flipper