US African American History Test 4

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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 Harriet Tubman?

A) Underground Railroad conductor

B) Union spy

C) Nurse

D) Abolitionist writer

Question 2

Who was Rosa Parks?

A) Led boycott

B) Refused bus seat 1955

C) Wrote speech

D) Founded NAACP

Question 3

Who was Marcus Garvey?

A) SNCC

B) NAACP

C) Back-to-Africa movement

D) SCLC

Question 4

Who was Louis Armstrong?

A) Rock singer

B) Movie star

C) Ball player

D) Jazz trumpeter

Question 5

What was Middle Passage?

A) Slave ocean crossing

B) Pleasure cruise

C) Fur route

D) Gold run

Question 6

Which person was Langston Hughes?

A) Novelist only

B) Harlem poet

C) Musician

D) Painter

Question 7

Which term means "1964 equality law"?

A) the Harlem Renaissance

B) the Middle Passage

C) Civil Rights Act

D) Harlem Renaissance

Question 8

Which of the following best defines Underground Railroad?

A) Real train

B) Road

C) River

D) Escape network

Question 9

Which of the following best defines Plessy?

A) 1896 separate equal

B) Desegregation

C) Busing approval

D) Prayer approval

Question 10

Which person were Buffalo Soldiers?

A) scouts

B) Black frontier troops

C) miners

D) cowboys

Question 11

Name W.E.B. Du Bois.

A) Founded Tuskegee

B) Led UNIA

C) Co-founded NAACP

D) Wrote Invisible Man

Question 12

Name first Black president.

A) MLK

B) Jesse Jackson

C) Colin Powell

D) Barack Obama

Question 13

Which term means "1863 freedom order"?

A) Emancipation

B) the Harlem Renaissance

C) the Middle Passage

D) Harlem Renaissance

Question 14

Which person was Booker T. Washington?

A) Led UNIA

B) Founded Tuskegee Institute

C) Founded NAACP

D) Wrote Souls of Black Folk

Question 15

Which of the following best defines Motown?

A) car factory

B) church

C) Detroit Black music label

D) baseball team

Question 16

Which person were Tuskegee Airmen?

A) infantry unit

B) navy crew

C) nurses

D) Black WWII pilots

Question 17

Provide the definition of Great Migration:

A) Black move north

B) White flight

C) Farm return

D) Suburb rush

Question 18

Which term means "Segregation laws"?

A) the Harlem Renaissance

B) Jim Crow

C) the Middle Passage

D) Harlem Renaissance

Question 19

Who was "Kamala Harris"?

A) the first Black Supreme Court justice

B) Harriet Tubman

C) first Black VP

D) Frederick Douglass

Question 20

Who was "Thurgood Marshall"?

A) Harriet Tubman

B) Frederick Douglass

C) W.E.B. Du Bois

D) the first Black Supreme Court justice

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