US African American History Test 1

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History Test 1 (African American History) K-12 to University (USA History) USA — African American History USA History Standards & AP

What is this test? for History practice (US/World/State), USA — K-12 to University (USA History) level, USA — African American History.
For all levels (Elementary to University) studying History in the USA
Section: History Test 1 (African American History) · Education: K-12 to University · Part: History Test 1 (African American History) · Country: USA · Region: USA — African American History

Knowledge of history is essential for understanding the vast accumulation from past to present and for establishing cause-and-effect relationships among historical events.

This test will help you develop chronological thinking and prepare for history questions on your exams.

By solving this test of 20 questions, you can both test your knowledge and identify the topics you need to improve.

Question 1

What was Great Migration?

A) Black move north

B) White flight

C) Farm return

D) Suburb rush

Question 2

Which 1954 case was Brown v. Board?

A) Plessy

B) Ended school segregation

C) Dred Scott

D) Miranda

Question 3

Who was Marcus Garvey?

A) NAACP

B) SNCC

C) Back-to-Africa movement

D) SCLC

Question 4

Who was Frederick Douglass?

A) Confederate spy

B) Union general

C) President

D) Escaped slave and abolitionist

Question 5

What was Motown?

A) Detroit Black music label

B) car factory

C) church

D) baseball team

Question 6

Who was the first Black Supreme Court justice?

A) Clarence Thomas

B) Thurgood Marshall

C) John Marshall

D) Hugo Black

Question 7

Identify Martin Luther King Jr..

A) Black Panther

B) Nation of Islam

C) SCLC leader, I Have a Dream

D) SNCC

Question 8

Identify W.E.B. Du Bois.

A) Led UNIA

B) Wrote Invisible Man

C) Founded Tuskegee

D) Co-founded NAACP

Question 9

Identify Louis Armstrong.

A) Jazz trumpeter

B) Rock singer

C) Movie star

D) Ball player

Question 10

Which term means "Black cultural flowering in 1920s"?

A) the Middle Passage

B) the Harlem Renaissance

C) Motown

D) Middle Passage

Question 11

Who was "Refused bus seat 1955"?

A) the first Black Supreme Court justice

B) Harriet Tubman

C) Rosa Parks

D) Frederick Douglass

Question 12

Identify first Black VP.

A) Ferraro

B) Palin

C) No woman

D) Kamala Harris

Question 13

Which of the following best defines Freedmen's Bureau?

A) Aid agency

B) Bank

C) Army unit

D) School only

Question 14

Provide the definition of 13th Amendment:

A) Voting rights

B) Ended slavery 1865

C) Income tax

D) Prohibition

Question 15

Provide the definition of Underground Railroad:

A) Real train

B) Road

C) Escape network

D) River

Question 16

Name the person who were Tuskegee Airmen.

A) navy crew

B) infantry unit

C) nurses

D) Black WWII pilots

Question 17

What best defines Voting Rights Act?

A) 1965 ballot protection

B) Farm aid

C) Tax law

D) Housing only

Question 18

Which term means "1964 equality law"?

A) the Harlem Renaissance

B) Civil Rights Act

C) the Middle Passage

D) Harlem Renaissance

Question 19

What best defines Brown v. Board?

A) Segregation approval

B) Busing ban

C) 1954 desegregation

D) Prayer approval

Question 20

What best defines Harlem Renaissance?

A) church split

B) political party

C) sports league

D) 1920s Black arts flowering

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