Deck 1 Flashcards
Which Egyptian dynasty is taharka associated with?
25th dynasty, the last African dynasty
Who is taharka supposed to have helped according to your text
Helped Israelites fight the Assyrians
Where was ancient Nubia located
Present day northern Sudan and southern egypt
Nubia’s history can be traced back to what time
3100 bce
Why was king ezana of Axum important
1st to convert to Christianity which made Ethiopia the oldest Christian civilization in the world
According to your reading what were the books of instruction
Advice to ensure personal success. Truth telling and fair dealing served as a teaching text for school to teach morals.
Explain the mysteries schools six of them. Explain three
Heavens, lands, depths, secret word, pharaoh, teachers of wordsHeavens deals with astrology and astronomyLands deals with geographyDepths deals with geology
According tithe article what was the advice about speaking
Only talk when you know your subject and wise words are rarer than precious stones
An important text is the instruction of ptahhotep. What virtue does ptahhotep rate above all
Fair dealing higher than learning. you may tell a noble man by his good deeds
What was the job of scribes
Scribes recorded history and taxes
Why did schooling in ancient Egypt look different from schooling for children today
Schooling consisted more of trades rather than academics and reading. Also, one had to be privileged to go to school in Egypt.
What did education in Egypt cover for girls? For boys?
Boys were taught by their fathers and were apprenticed out or could go into the army. Girls were taught by their mothers about domestic skills.
teachers of the mystery schools
hersetha
what are the names of three great west african empires
ghana, mali, songhay
how did ghana become known as the “Land of Gold”
Ghana was the middle point where gold and salt was traded so it became very rich
who was mansa musa
the ruler of mali during the 14th century who made pilgrimmages to mecca, the holy city for muslims, and gave away gold on the way which made it devalue
what happened to abubakari
he disappeared in the ocean currents while exploring the niger river
where was the university of sankore located
mali
where were other universities established
timbuktu, gao, and jenne
which ruler seized power from mali
sunni ali the Great
under whose rule in songhay were improvements made
askia mohammed
where was the city of timbuktu located? of what accomplishments could it boast?
in songhay, and timbuktu boasted a university and a large population
Wo were the moors
A North African people who settled in morocco and was credited with getting Europe out of the dark ages
Who was Gabriel Tarik
Tarik invaded the Iberian peninsula with 7000 soldiers and took over Spain and Portugal
Describe schooling for the moorish people
Schooling was universal and there were 800 public schools, 70 libraries, and seventeen universities
What were some of the advances they brought to Spain and Portugal
Silk industry, paved streets, street lights, rice, strawberries, ginger, dates, libraries and mosques
What was found in Mexico
Huge stone heads resembling African people as well as clay sculptures and pictures of black warriors
How was the age of artifacts determined
Carbon dating was used as well as carvings of dates on artifacts
What is one theory how Africans got to America
The natural circular currents of the Atlantic could have brought Africans and abubakari to America
We’re ere eye witnesses or other evidence of Africans in America
Columbus talks about Africans in America in his journal, skeletal bones resemble Africans more than Americans, plants in America were native to Africa
Learning center of Africa today
Cairo
At al-azhar how long long did a course of study last
12-14 years
Who tells us that that the first African immigrants to the Jamestown colony were referred to as servants, not slaves
Lerone Bennett
Discrimination was based on blank not blank in Europe
Class not color
First state to legalize slavery
Massachusetts in 1641
One of the first Europeans t enslave Africans
Portuguese
European slave trade was also called the blank trade
Triangle
A famous revolt was led by this man in French ruled Haiti in 1791
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Three ways to get freed from slavery
Buy freedom, voluntarily be granted freedom, escape to freedom
Benjamin Banneker wrote a what
An almanac
Two ways to resist
Violence and non violence
Three violent protestors against slavery
Nat turner., John brown, Gabriel prosser
Most famous non violent protestor of slaavery
Frederick Douglass
How was Harriet Tubman freed
Escaped
Organization designed to serve African community
Free African society
african man and former slave who was the first death in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
African soldier who was singled out for special commendation for his bravery in the Battle of Bunker Hill
Salem Poor
Africans served with this Naval Commodore during the War of 1812… this man was forced to admit the Africans’ bravery after his victory at the Battle of Lake Erie
Matthew Perry
blank of 1787 which prohibited slavery northwest of the Ohio River
Northwest Ordinance
An African troop led by this man captured The Planter which was a Confederate gunboat
Robert Smalls
How many africans received Medal of Honor during civil war
16
how many africans received Medal of Honor from spanish american war
four
This act of 1865 gave millions of acres of land to whites who went west
homestead act
The Great Debate was between these two people over college curriculum for blacks
w.e.b. dubois and booker t washington
Because of what amendments were african americans elected to office
13, 14, 15
this required a payment that was usually more than the poor could afford to vote
poll tax
this was a section of some voting laws that stated anyone who was able to vote in 1867 or was descended from someone who voted in 1867 did not have to pay the poll tax or pass the literacy test
grandfather clause
these laws were a way of life in the South and remained until the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Jim Crow
this man worked with alexander graham bell in 1876 and drew all the plans for the first telephone. He also invented the carbon filament for the light bulb that enabled it to burn for a long time
howard lewis latimer
Who said that public education for all at. Public expense was, in the south, a negro idea?
W.e.b. dubois
Blacks began establishing private schools between what years
1860-1862
A slave who learned how to read while hiding in the back of his master’s store
Thomas H. Jones
armstrong felt that the white race was mentally and morally blank but blacks were mentally blank but morally blank
strong, strong, feeble
the female teachers of the Hampton Institute had to do blank to internalize the value of hard work that they were supposed to transmit to their blank students
field work, black
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T Washington
the Freedman’s Bureau
Samuel Chapman Armstrong
Main criticism of Hampton Institute came
W.E.B DuBois
organized a march on Washington that never took place
A. Phillip Randolph
Opened up the frontier and protected settlers from Native Americans
Buffalo Soldiers
Two big white vs. black riots that broke out around the time of WWI were located where?
Tulsa, OK and Rosewood, FL
African American soldiers in WWI that was named the 369th Regiment had soldiers that became known as the blank
Hellfighters
Needham Roberts and Sergeant Johnson who were black recieved this honor which is the highest military honor in France
Croix de Guerre
African American settlers who hitched up their wagons and headed West in the late 1870s
exodusters
This African American man was renowned for his ability to ride a bronco.
Nat Love
This man opposed the Tuskegee Institute model and published many pieces of literature as well as helped founding the NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
An African American who betrays his people to please whites
Uncle Tom
Who got to determine educational policies in the U.S.?
states/colonies
a lot of black blank were established even before the Freedman’s bureau was created
schools
ex slaves viewed literacy and education as blank and blank
liberation, freedom
rich people who donated lots of money to various causes
philanthropists
a philanthropist who wanted to build schools but didn’t think blacks were on the same level as whites
Booker T. Washington
this opened in 1901 in Buffal, NY and it was a showcase that highlighted new inventions like the use of electric lights
Pan-American Exposition
This African American woman protested that the exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition did not include the work by important African Americans
Mary B. Talbert
The assassination of which president happened at the Pan-American Exposition?
William McKinley
The African American man who captured McKinley’s assassin?
James Parker
in 1919, this stood for the numerous race riots that took place in the U.S.
Red Summer
One of the first labor organizations for blacks was the blank
colored national labor union
The two countries that went to war over the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria.
Austria and Serbia
a U.S. president who was considered to be racist by many people.
Woodrow Wilson
This man had similar philosophies as Martin Delaney
Marcus Garvey
The military reconstruction acts applied to this time period
1860-1870
The first black cowboy movie
Harlem on the Prairie
The slave that went with Lewis and Clark and Sacajewea and saved them from the Native Americans
York
How many wars to wipe out Seminole Indians
three
One of the greatest cowboys that lived who was black.
Bill Pickett
When did the majority of African Americans stop voting for Republicans?
During the Great Depression
A very influential member of the “Black Cabinet”
Mary McLeod Bethune
African American cook who was aboard the battleship Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and received the Navy Cross
Dorie Miller
The most famous African Americans that served in the air force during WWII
Tuskegee Airmen
A unit of mostly African American soldiers who were charged with supplying ammunition and other supplies to the soldiers who were fighting on the front lines
Red Ball Express
The first director of the blood plasma project of the American Red Cross in 1941
Charles Drew
A track star named blank and a boxing star named blank were African Americans during the Roosevelt administration that resulted in pride for the black population
Jesse Owens, Joe Louis
the first Greek-letter organization for African American men on a college campus
Alpha Phi Alpha
a Supreme Court decision that was a turning point in the modern civil rights movement
Brown v. Board of Education
The head of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s and preached non-violence
Martin Luther King Jr.
This woman was known for the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 because she wouldn’t give up her front seat on a public bus.
Rosa Parks
Three forms of non-violent protest
boycots, sit-ins, freedom rides
The marchers who walked in protest with this man started the slogan of “black power”
James Meredith
The Congress of the U.S. passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was the blank Amendment to the Constitution
24th
the first “Black” cowboy
John Wayne
Most notorious black outlaw in the West
Cherokee Bill
A western black con man
Ben Hodges
Exodusters settle in these three places
Langston, Taft, Nicodemus
W.E.B. DuBois and advocated blacks to get any education they wanted and led to the NAACP
Niagara Movement
One of Washington’s famous sayings
“Go along to get along”
