Final Exam

Question 1

Farm security administration

Answer 1

Part of the new deal in the u.s the FSA was an effort during the depression to combat American rural poverty.

Question 2

Civilian conservation corps

Answer 2

Public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed , unmarried men from the relief families as part of the new deal.

Question 3

Social security board

Answer 3

A government agency that was created in 1935 by Franklin Roosevelt, the SSA administers the social insurance programs in the United States.

Question 4

John Davis

Answer 4

American political diplomat and lawyer. Served as representative from West Virginia from 1911-1913.

Question 5

Tuskegee study

Answer 5

Infamous clinical study in 1932 and 1973 by the U.S Public Health Service to study the progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American men in Alabama. They were told that they were reviving free health care from the U.S government.

Question 6

Brown vs BOE

Answer 6

Landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court declared state laws establishing separate public schools from black and white students to be unconstitutional.

Question 7

Nation of Islam

Answer 7

Islamic religious movement founded in Detroit by Wallace Muhammad in 1930. Goals was to improve spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States.

Question 8

Elijah Poole

Answer 8

African American religious leader who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975. Mentor to Malcolm x.

Question 9

Malcolm X

Answer 9

American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. Indicted white Americans in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans.

Question 10

Tuskegee institution of Alabama.

Answer 10

Private historically black university located in Tuskegee Alabama established by Booker T Washington

Question 11

Promise land

Answer 11

Land north and out of slave states. Canada would also be part of the promise land

Question 12

John Rockefeller

Answer 12

American business magnate and philanthropist. He’s co founder of the standard oil company.

Question 13

George Peabody

Answer 13

American British entrepreneur and philanthropist and founder of the Peabody trust in Britain and Baltimore.

Question 14

American federation of labor

Answer 14

First federation of labor unions in the United States. Founded in Columbus Ohio in 1886.

Question 15

Niagara fall conference

Answer 15

A meeting of 29men on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls from July 11-14 1905. Led by web du bois

Question 16

NAACP

Answer 16

Organization formed in 1909 to ensure political , educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and discrimination.

Question 17

Red summer

Answer 17

The race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities during the summer of 1919. In most cases, whites attacking blacks.

Question 18

agricultural adjustment administration (AAA)

Answer 18

A United States federal law of the new deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant in part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefor effectively raise the value of crops.

Question 19

UNIA

Answer 19

Black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey.

Question 20

Marcus Garvey

Answer 20

Jamaican political leader who was a staunch proponent of the black nationalism and pan Africanism movements in which he founded the UNIA.

Question 21

Negro world

Answer 21

Weekly newspaper est. in 1918 in NYC that served the voice of the UNIA.

Question 22

Negro Zionism

Answer 22

Encouraged African descents to return to Africa homelands of their ancestors.