US African American History Test 1

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History African American History (High School) High School (USA History, 9-12, AP) USA USA History Standards & AP

What is this test? for High School History (9-12, AP US History), USA — High School (USA History, 9-12, AP) level, USA.
For High School students (9-12) including AP History in the USA
Section: History African American History (High School) · Education: High School · Part: History African American History (High School) · Country: USA

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

Who was Langston Hughes?

A) Harlem poet

B) Novelist only

C) Musician

D) Painter

Question 2

What was Plessy?

A) Desegregation

B) 1896 separate equal

C) Busing approval

D) Prayer approval

Question 3

Who was first Black president?

A) MLK

B) Jesse Jackson

C) Barack Obama

D) Colin Powell

Question 4

What was Motown?

A) car factory

B) church

C) baseball team

D) Detroit Black music label

Question 5

When did slavery start US?

A) 1619 Virginia

B) 1492

C) 1776

D) 1800

Question 6

What was Freedmen's Bureau?

A) Bank

B) Aid agency

C) Army unit

D) School only

Question 7

What best defines 13th Amendment?

A) Voting rights

B) Income tax

C) Ended slavery 1865

D) Prohibition

Question 8

What best defines Civil Rights Act?

A) Voting only

B) Farm aid

C) Tax law

D) 1964 equality law

Question 9

Which person was Frederick Douglass?

A) Escaped slave and abolitionist

B) Confederate spy

C) Union general

D) President

Question 10

What best defines the Middle Passage?

A) river trip

B) slave voyage to Americas

C) trade fair

D) freedom road

Question 11

Who was "Co-founded NAACP"?

A) the first Black Supreme Court justice

B) Harriet Tubman

C) W.E.B. Du Bois

D) Frederick Douglass

Question 12

Provide the definition of the Harlem Renaissance:

A) Military campaign

B) Economic boom

C) Political movement

D) Black cultural flowering in 1920s

Question 13

Identify Ida B. Wells.

A) Anti-lynching journalist

B) Suffragist

C) Civil rights lawyer

D) Abolitionist

Question 14

What best defines Emancipation?

A) Law 1865

B) 1863 freedom order

C) Speech only

D) No order

Question 15

What best defines Brown v. Board?

A) Segregation approval

B) Busing ban

C) 1954 desegregation

D) Prayer approval

Question 16

What best defines Voting Rights Act?

A) Farm aid

B) Tax law

C) Housing only

D) 1965 ballot protection

Question 17

Which term means "Black move north"?

A) Great Migration

B) the Harlem Renaissance

C) the Middle Passage

D) Harlem Renaissance

Question 18

Name Malcolm X.

A) SNCC

B) Nation of Islam

C) SCLC

D) NAACP

Question 19

Which of the following best defines Middle Passage?

A) Pleasure cruise

B) Fur route

C) Slave ocean crossing

D) Gold run

Question 20

Which of the following best defines Harlem Renaissance?

A) sports league

B) political party

C) church split

D) 1920s Black arts flowering

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