US African American History Test 2

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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

What was 13th Amendment?

A) Ended slavery 1865

B) Voting rights

C) Income tax

D) Prohibition

Question 2

What was the Middle Passage?

A) river trip

B) slave voyage to Americas

C) trade fair

D) freedom road

Question 3

Who had Dream speech?

A) Malcolm X

B) Rosa Parks

C) Martin Luther King Jr.

D) John Lewis

Question 4

What was Voting Rights Act?

A) Farm aid

B) Tax law

C) Housing only

D) 1965 ballot protection

Question 5

What were Black Codes?

A) Limiting laws

B) Voting rights

C) Farm aid

D) City laws

Question 6

Which 1964 law was Civil Rights Act?

A) Education

B) Ended segregation in public places

C) Housing

D) Voting rights

Question 7

Who was "Underground Railroad conductor"?

A) the first Black Supreme Court justice

B) Frederick Douglass

C) Harriet Tubman

D) W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 8

Provide the definition of Civil Rights Act:

A) Voting only

B) Farm aid

C) Tax law

D) 1964 equality law

Question 9

Identify Frederick Douglass.

A) Escaped slave and abolitionist

B) Confederate spy

C) Union general

D) President

Question 10

Name the person who were Buffalo Soldiers.

A) scouts

B) Black frontier troops

C) miners

D) cowboys

Question 11

Which person was W.E.B. Du Bois?

A) Founded Tuskegee

B) Led UNIA

C) Co-founded NAACP

D) Wrote Invisible Man

Question 12

Which person was first Black president?

A) MLK

B) Jesse Jackson

C) Colin Powell

D) Barack Obama

Question 13

Name Ida B. Wells.

A) Anti-lynching journalist

B) Suffragist

C) Civil rights lawyer

D) Abolitionist

Question 14

Provide the definition of Emancipation:

A) Law 1865

B) 1863 freedom order

C) Speech only

D) No order

Question 15

Provide the definition of Brown v. Board:

A) Segregation approval

B) Busing ban

C) 1954 desegregation

D) Prayer approval

Question 16

Name the person who were Tuskegee Airmen.

A) infantry unit

B) navy crew

C) nurses

D) Black WWII pilots

Question 17

Which of the following best defines Great Migration?

A) Black move north

B) White flight

C) Farm return

D) Suburb rush

Question 18

When exactly did slavery start US?

A) 1492

B) 1619 Virginia

C) 1776

D) 1800

Question 19

What best defines Middle Passage?

A) Pleasure cruise

B) Fur route

C) Slave ocean crossing

D) Gold run

Question 20

What best defines Harlem Renaissance?

A) sports league

B) political party

C) church split

D) 1920s Black arts flowering

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