Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

African-American History > Deck 1 > Flashcards

Deck 1 Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
AP® U.S. History flashcards World History 101 flashcards European History 101 flashcards AP® European History flashcards AP® World History flashcards World History 102 flashcards U.S. History 101 flashcards U.S. History 102 flashcards
1
Q

Which Egyptian dynasty is taharka associated with?

A

25th dynasty, the last African dynasty

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Who is taharka supposed to have helped according to your text

A

Helped Israelites fight the Assyrians

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Where was ancient Nubia located

A

Present day northern Sudan and southern egypt

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Nubia’s history can be traced back to what time

A

3100 bce

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Why was king ezana of Axum important

A

1st to convert to Christianity which made Ethiopia the oldest Christian civilization in the world

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

According to your reading what were the books of instruction

A

Advice to ensure personal success. Truth telling and fair dealing served as a teaching text for school to teach morals.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Explain the mysteries schools six of them. Explain three

A

Heavens, lands, depths, secret word, pharaoh, teachers of wordsHeavens deals with astrology and astronomyLands deals with geographyDepths deals with geology

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

According tithe article what was the advice about speaking

A

Only talk when you know your subject and wise words are rarer than precious stones

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

An important text is the instruction of ptahhotep. What virtue does ptahhotep rate above all

A

Fair dealing higher than learning. you may tell a noble man by his good deeds

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

What was the job of scribes

A

Scribes recorded history and taxes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Why did schooling in ancient Egypt look different from schooling for children today

A

Schooling consisted more of trades rather than academics and reading. Also, one had to be privileged to go to school in Egypt.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

What did education in Egypt cover for girls? For boys?

A

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.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

teachers of the mystery schools

A

hersetha

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

what are the names of three great west african empires

A

ghana, mali, songhay

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

how did ghana become known as the “Land of Gold”

A

Ghana was the middle point where gold and salt was traded so it became very rich

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

who was mansa musa

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

what happened to abubakari

A

he disappeared in the ocean currents while exploring the niger river

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

where was the university of sankore located

A

mali

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

where were other universities established

A

timbuktu, gao, and jenne

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

which ruler seized power from mali

A

sunni ali the Great

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

under whose rule in songhay were improvements made

A

askia mohammed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

where was the city of timbuktu located? of what accomplishments could it boast?

A

in songhay, and timbuktu boasted a university and a large population

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Wo were the moors

A

A North African people who settled in morocco and was credited with getting Europe out of the dark ages

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Who was Gabriel Tarik

A

Tarik invaded the Iberian peninsula with 7000 soldiers and took over Spain and Portugal

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Describe schooling for the moorish people

A

Schooling was universal and there were 800 public schools, 70 libraries, and seventeen universities

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

What were some of the advances they brought to Spain and Portugal

A

Silk industry, paved streets, street lights, rice, strawberries, ginger, dates, libraries and mosques

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

What was found in Mexico

A

Huge stone heads resembling African people as well as clay sculptures and pictures of black warriors

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

How was the age of artifacts determined

A

Carbon dating was used as well as carvings of dates on artifacts

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

What is one theory how Africans got to America

A

The natural circular currents of the Atlantic could have brought Africans and abubakari to America

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

We’re ere eye witnesses or other evidence of Africans in America

A

Columbus talks about Africans in America in his journal, skeletal bones resemble Africans more than Americans, plants in America were native to Africa

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Learning center of Africa today

A

Cairo

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

At al-azhar how long long did a course of study last

A

12-14 years

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

Who tells us that that the first African immigrants to the Jamestown colony were referred to as servants, not slaves

A

Lerone Bennett

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

Discrimination was based on blank not blank in Europe

A

Class not color

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

First state to legalize slavery

A

Massachusetts in 1641

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

One of the first Europeans t enslave Africans

A

Portuguese

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

European slave trade was also called the blank trade

A

Triangle

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

A famous revolt was led by this man in French ruled Haiti in 1791

A

Toussaint L’Ouverture

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

Three ways to get freed from slavery

A

Buy freedom, voluntarily be granted freedom, escape to freedom

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

Benjamin Banneker wrote a what

A

An almanac

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

Two ways to resist

A

Violence and non violence

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
42
Q

Three violent protestors against slavery

A

Nat turner., John brown, Gabriel prosser

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
43
Q

Most famous non violent protestor of slaavery

A

Frederick Douglass

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
44
Q

How was Harriet Tubman freed

A

Escaped

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
45
Q

Organization designed to serve African community

A

Free African society

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
46
Q

african man and former slave who was the first death in the Boston Massacre

A

Crispus Attucks

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
47
Q

African soldier who was singled out for special commendation for his bravery in the Battle of Bunker Hill

A

Salem Poor

48
Q

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

A

Matthew Perry

49
Q

blank of 1787 which prohibited slavery northwest of the Ohio River

A

Northwest Ordinance

50
Q

An African troop led by this man captured The Planter which was a Confederate gunboat

A

Robert Smalls

51
Q

How many africans received Medal of Honor during civil war

A

16

52
Q

how many africans received Medal of Honor from spanish american war

A

four

53
Q

This act of 1865 gave millions of acres of land to whites who went west

A

homestead act

54
Q

The Great Debate was between these two people over college curriculum for blacks

A

w.e.b. dubois and booker t washington

55
Q

Because of what amendments were african americans elected to office

A

13, 14, 15

56
Q

this required a payment that was usually more than the poor could afford to vote

A

poll tax

57
Q

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

A

grandfather clause

58
Q

these laws were a way of life in the South and remained until the civil rights movement of the 1960s

A

Jim Crow

59
Q

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

A

howard lewis latimer

60
Q

Who said that public education for all at. Public expense was, in the south, a negro idea?

A

W.e.b. dubois

61
Q

Blacks began establishing private schools between what years

A

1860-1862

62
Q

A slave who learned how to read while hiding in the back of his master’s store

A

Thomas H. Jones

63
Q

armstrong felt that the white race was mentally and morally blank but blacks were mentally blank but morally blank

A

strong, strong, feeble

64
Q

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

A

field work, black

65
Q

Founder of the Tuskegee Institute

A

Booker T Washington

66
Q

the Freedman’s Bureau

A

Samuel Chapman Armstrong

67
Q

Main criticism of Hampton Institute came

A

W.E.B DuBois

68
Q

organized a march on Washington that never took place

A

A. Phillip Randolph

69
Q

Opened up the frontier and protected settlers from Native Americans

A

Buffalo Soldiers

70
Q

Two big white vs. black riots that broke out around the time of WWI were located where?

A

Tulsa, OK and Rosewood, FL

71
Q

African American soldiers in WWI that was named the 369th Regiment had soldiers that became known as the blank

A

Hellfighters

72
Q

Needham Roberts and Sergeant Johnson who were black recieved this honor which is the highest military honor in France

A

Croix de Guerre

73
Q

African American settlers who hitched up their wagons and headed West in the late 1870s

A

exodusters

74
Q

This African American man was renowned for his ability to ride a bronco.

A

Nat Love

75
Q

This man opposed the Tuskegee Institute model and published many pieces of literature as well as helped founding the NAACP

A

W.E.B. DuBois

76
Q

An African American who betrays his people to please whites

A

Uncle Tom

77
Q

Who got to determine educational policies in the U.S.?

A

states/colonies

78
Q

a lot of black blank were established even before the Freedman’s bureau was created

A

schools

79
Q

ex slaves viewed literacy and education as blank and blank

A

liberation, freedom

80
Q

rich people who donated lots of money to various causes

A

philanthropists

81
Q

a philanthropist who wanted to build schools but didn’t think blacks were on the same level as whites

A

Booker T. Washington

82
Q

this opened in 1901 in Buffal, NY and it was a showcase that highlighted new inventions like the use of electric lights

A

Pan-American Exposition

83
Q

This African American woman protested that the exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition did not include the work by important African Americans

A

Mary B. Talbert

84
Q

The assassination of which president happened at the Pan-American Exposition?

A

William McKinley

85
Q

The African American man who captured McKinley’s assassin?

A

James Parker

86
Q

in 1919, this stood for the numerous race riots that took place in the U.S.

A

Red Summer

87
Q

One of the first labor organizations for blacks was the blank

A

colored national labor union

88
Q

The two countries that went to war over the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria.

A

Austria and Serbia

89
Q

a U.S. president who was considered to be racist by many people.

A

Woodrow Wilson

90
Q

This man had similar philosophies as Martin Delaney

A

Marcus Garvey

91
Q

The military reconstruction acts applied to this time period

A

1860-1870

92
Q

The first black cowboy movie

A

Harlem on the Prairie

93
Q

The slave that went with Lewis and Clark and Sacajewea and saved them from the Native Americans

A

York

94
Q

How many wars to wipe out Seminole Indians

A

three

95
Q

One of the greatest cowboys that lived who was black.

A

Bill Pickett

96
Q

When did the majority of African Americans stop voting for Republicans?

A

During the Great Depression

97
Q

A very influential member of the “Black Cabinet”

A

Mary McLeod Bethune

98
Q

African American cook who was aboard the battleship Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and received the Navy Cross

A

Dorie Miller

99
Q

The most famous African Americans that served in the air force during WWII

A

Tuskegee Airmen

100
Q

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

A

Red Ball Express

101
Q

The first director of the blood plasma project of the American Red Cross in 1941

A

Charles Drew

102
Q

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

A

Jesse Owens, Joe Louis

103
Q

the first Greek-letter organization for African American men on a college campus

A

Alpha Phi Alpha

104
Q

a Supreme Court decision that was a turning point in the modern civil rights movement

A

Brown v. Board of Education

105
Q

The head of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s and preached non-violence

A

Martin Luther King Jr.

106
Q

This woman was known for the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 because she wouldn’t give up her front seat on a public bus.

A

Rosa Parks

107
Q

Three forms of non-violent protest

A

boycots, sit-ins, freedom rides

108
Q

The marchers who walked in protest with this man started the slogan of “black power”

A

James Meredith

109
Q

The Congress of the U.S. passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was the blank Amendment to the Constitution

A

24th

110
Q

the first “Black” cowboy

A

John Wayne

111
Q

Most notorious black outlaw in the West

A

Cherokee Bill

112
Q

A western black con man

A

Ben Hodges

113
Q

Exodusters settle in these three places

A

Langston, Taft, Nicodemus

114
Q

W.E.B. DuBois and advocated blacks to get any education they wanted and led to the NAACP

A

Niagara Movement

115
Q

One of Washington’s famous sayings

A

“Go along to get along”

African-American History (3 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions