US African American History Test 3

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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

Which 1963 event was March on Washington?

A) I Have a Dream

B) Birmingham

C) Montgomery

D) Selma

Question 2

Who were Buffalo Soldiers?

A) scouts

B) Black frontier troops

C) miners

D) cowboys

Question 3

Who was Ida B. Wells?

A) Suffragist

B) Civil rights lawyer

C) Anti-lynching journalist

D) Abolitionist

Question 4

Who were Tuskegee Airmen?

A) infantry unit

B) navy crew

C) nurses

D) Black WWII pilots

Question 5

What was Jim Crow?

A) Segregation laws

B) Voting rights

C) Farm aid

D) City laws

Question 6

Who was "Harlem poet"?

A) the first Black Supreme Court justice

B) Langston Hughes

C) Harriet Tubman

D) Frederick Douglass

Question 7

Provide the definition of 13th Amendment:

A) Voting rights

B) Income tax

C) Ended slavery 1865

D) Prohibition

Question 8

Which term means "Escape network"?

A) the Harlem Renaissance

B) the Middle Passage

C) Harlem Renaissance

D) Underground Railroad

Question 9

Name Frederick Douglass.

A) Escaped slave and abolitionist

B) Confederate spy

C) Union general

D) President

Question 10

Provide the definition of the Middle Passage:

A) river trip

B) slave voyage to Americas

C) trade fair

D) freedom road

Question 11

Identify W.E.B. Du Bois.

A) Founded Tuskegee

B) Led UNIA

C) Co-founded NAACP

D) Wrote Invisible Man

Question 12

Identify first Black president.

A) MLK

B) Jesse Jackson

C) Colin Powell

D) Barack Obama

Question 13

Who was "Back-to-Africa movement"?

A) Marcus Garvey

B) the first Black Supreme Court justice

C) Harriet Tubman

D) Frederick Douglass

Question 14

Who was "Founded Tuskegee Institute"?

A) the first Black Supreme Court justice

B) Booker T. Washington

C) Harriet Tubman

D) Frederick Douglass

Question 15

Which term means "Detroit Black music label"?

A) the Harlem Renaissance

B) the Middle Passage

C) Motown

D) Harlem Renaissance

Question 16

Provide the definition of Voting Rights Act:

A) Farm aid

B) Tax law

C) Housing only

D) 1965 ballot protection

Question 17

What best defines Great Migration?

A) Black move north

B) White flight

C) Farm return

D) Suburb rush

Question 18

In what year exactly did slavery start US?

A) 1492

B) 1619 Virginia

C) 1776

D) 1800

Question 19

Provide the definition of Middle Passage:

A) Pleasure cruise

B) Fur route

C) Slave ocean crossing

D) Gold run

Question 20

Provide the definition of Harlem Renaissance:

A) sports league

B) political party

C) church split

D) 1920s Black arts flowering

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