module 4b (textbook ch 3)

Question 1

(quiz) // question 1: The Convict Lease System was the blueprint for Private Prisons today.

Answer 1

true

Question 2

(quiz) // question 2: Who mostly attended lynchings?

Answer 2

School teachers, Mayors, Parents, Children, Police

Question 3

(quiz) // question 3: Approximately at what age does discrimination occur in schools?

Answer 3

preschool

Question 4

(quiz) // question 4: Slave patrols were the blueprint for U.S. Police Departments today.

Answer 4

true

Question 5

(quiz) // question 5: Food Racism or Food Oppression is a term discussed by Harriet Washington and means:

Answer 5

The targeting of poor communities and neighbors to sell high sugar, fat and chemically processed food

Question 6

white man’s burden

Answer 6

“we have to take care of these slaves…monkeys… etc.”

Question 7

Dr. James Marrion Simms

Answer 7

• physician in 1800s
• created first vaginal speculum
• used slaves to experiment on without anesthesia to fix (vaginal) obstetric fistula
• claimed black women can not feel pain

Question 8

textbook chapter story: riker’s island visit

Answer 8

author went to rivers island to talk to incarcerated men aging from 16-18 years old by the end of her presentation the inmates were excited.
this is because she respected them.

Question 9

crimes against humanity was the hardest chapter for our author to write

Answer 9

true

Question 10

maafa

Answer 10

the transatlantic slave trade, referred to as the middle passage or maafa.

swahili for DISASTER CALAMITY AND CATASTROPHE

Question 11

first enslaved african were captured and brought to____ in ____

Answer 11

portugal, 1444

Question 12

definition of “chattel”

Answer 12

defined as movable item of personal property

Question 13

virginia casual killing act of 1705 and unlawful assembly act of 1680

Answer 13

made it legal to kill a slave who raises a hand against any christian

Question 14

why would slave owners rape female slaves

Answer 14

because it was an act of physical violence designed to stifle black women’s will to resist and to remind them of their servile status.

Question 15

black codes

Answer 15

after emancipation proclamation.
made to regulate every party of a black person’s life.
prevented one from owning land, suing, voting etc.

Question 16

peonage

Answer 16

the unlawful pushing of blacks back into slavery through debt servitude.

Question 17

thirteenth amendment loophole

Answer 17

slavery is okay if it is a punishment for crime.

- created convict lease system

Question 18

convict lease system

Answer 18

modern day: privatized prisons

-began in Alabama, 1846
-soon replaced by chain gangs
instead of imprisoning convicts instead lease them to PLANTATION owners for the duration of their sentence.

when this was created black people were imprisoned for anything. white people would falsely claim they raped etc. just so blacks could go to prison.

Question 19

the white man’s burden

Answer 19

white people’s obligation to control, direct, and civilize all those they believed to be from inferior races.

Question 20

Jim Crow laws

Answer 20

separate, but “equal” –> plessy v. ferguson

not equal at all it was just discrimination
- 14th amendment: made African Americans citizens
- 15th amendment: allowed all black males to vote
Jim Crow stopped these two through registration laws and poll taxes.

Question 21

lynching is still

Answer 21

legal (smh this country)

Question 22

Greenwood/tulsa race riot

Answer 22

1921, white mob attacked “Black Wall Street”/Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma killing hundreds. the police helped the white mob kill the black people in this town after a black men was suspected of attempting to harm a white women and the mob could not kill him as the people of Greenwood protected him. Instead they killed even more innocent people.

Question 23

Tuskegee syphillis trials

Answer 23

U.S. government let hundreds of black men die (of 399 men) with syphilis despite being able to help them just to see what syphilis can do to the body. the men did not know this would happen as they were promised care.

Question 24

slave patrols..

Answer 24

paved the way for the american policing system

Question 25

black boys are seen as

Answer 25

older and less innocent than their white peers