US African American History Test 8

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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 Frederick Douglass?

A) Escaped slave and abolitionist

B) Confederate spy

C) Union general

D) President

Question 2

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

A) Military campaign

B) Black cultural flowering in 1920s

C) Economic boom

D) Political movement

Question 3

What were Negro Leagues?

A) boxing clubs

B) football teams

C) Black baseball leagues

D) choirs

Question 4

Who was Malcolm X?

A) SNCC

B) SCLC

C) NAACP

D) Nation of Islam

Question 5

Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?

A) SCLC leader, I Have a Dream

B) Nation of Islam

C) SNCC

D) Black Panther

Question 6

Which of the following best defines 13th Amendment?

A) Voting rights

B) Ended slavery 1865

C) Income tax

D) Prohibition

Question 7

Which of the following best defines Civil Rights Act?

A) Voting only

B) Farm aid

C) 1964 equality law

D) Tax law

Question 8

Which term means "1896 separate equal"?

A) the Harlem Renaissance

B) the Middle Passage

C) Harlem Renaissance

D) Plessy

Question 9

Which of the following best defines the Middle Passage?

A) slave voyage to Americas

B) river trip

C) trade fair

D) freedom road

Question 10

Name Rosa Parks.

A) Led boycott

B) Refused bus seat 1955

C) Wrote speech

D) Founded NAACP

Question 11

Who was "Barack Obama"?

A) the first Black Supreme Court justice

B) Harriet Tubman

C) first Black president

D) Frederick Douglass

Question 12

Which person was Ida B. Wells?

A) Suffragist

B) Civil rights lawyer

C) Abolitionist

D) Anti-lynching journalist

Question 13

Which of the following best defines Emancipation?

A) 1863 freedom order

B) Law 1865

C) Speech only

D) No order

Question 14

Which of the following best defines Brown v. Board?

A) Segregation approval

B) 1954 desegregation

C) Busing ban

D) Prayer approval

Question 15

Which of the following best defines Voting Rights Act?

A) Farm aid

B) Tax law

C) 1965 ballot protection

D) Housing only

Question 16

Name Louis Armstrong.

A) Rock singer

B) Movie star

C) Ball player

D) Jazz trumpeter

Question 17

In which year did slavery start US?

A) 1619 Virginia

B) 1492

C) 1776

D) 1800

Question 18

Which term means "Slave ocean crossing"?

A) the Harlem Renaissance

B) Middle Passage

C) the Middle Passage

D) Harlem Renaissance

Question 19

Name first Black VP.

A) Ferraro

B) Palin

C) Kamala Harris

D) No woman

Question 20

Name the first Black Supreme Court justice.

A) Hugo Black

B) Clarence Thomas

C) John Marshall

D) Thurgood Marshall

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