African American History Final Exam Questions
and Answers
Henry Smith was accused of what crime? - -murdering a four-year-old child
-What does denounce mean? - -to publicly declare something as evil
-Paul is an election official in the South who is asked to create a flyer sent to African
America homes that lists an incorrect location for the next election. Democrats would often
change polling places or block the roads to polling places to stifle the Black vote. What were
these efforts called? - -voter manipulation
-As a free Black in the South, you had the right to enter the sharecropping system, which
could have been a reliable way to make money when crops were sold. However, many
Black sharecroppers did not get what was due to them. Why was that? - -They couldn't
read the contract so they had to agree to whatever the land owner gave them.
-What were many African Americans who migrated out of the rural South trying to escape?
- -poverty
-What did the Plessy v. Ferguson case address? - -a legal challenge to segregation
-What had President Lincoln advocated for in 1862 as part of his Preliminary
Emancipation plan that finally came to be in the late 1870s? - -migration of slaves back to
Africa
-During Reconstruction, what did white Southerners work to do? - -reestablish clear
boundaries between Blacks and whites
-What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 declare? - -Discrimination in hotels, trains, and
other public places was unconstitutional.
-While many parts of everyday life—schools, churches, and neighborhoods—were
segregated, why were African Americans particularly outraged about the segregation of the
public transportation system? - -Without it they could not get to jobs.
-Many Blacks migrated to Africa or to the Western territories to escape unbearable
conditions in the South. - -True
-What was the first legal challenge to segregation? - -Plessy v. Ferguson
-African Americans who left the rural South for larger cities did so because of what
economic benefit? - -City workers were paid regularly instead of at the end of the season.
, -Crop liens happened when loans were made to the farmer by a shop owner in exchange
for a specified percentage of the final crop profits. - -True
-It wasn't just racism that caused states to fill their jails and prisons with Black men in the
early 1900s. Why else were they eager to have more Black prisoners? - -States made a
profit by leasing the convicts as laborers.
-Progress for African Americans was a straight line from slavery to equality. - -False
-What is Social Darwinism? - -a theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest
-What does accommodation refer to? - -accepting and working within the system
-What is the Croix de Guerre? - -France's highest military honor
-What do Fisk University, Talladega College, and Tuskegee Institute have in common? - -
They are historically Black colleges.
-The war meant a huge demand for war materials that created many of what type of job? -
-factory workers
-What did white people who believed in scientific racism, which argued that races could be
weakened by "inferior" races, point to as an example of this threat? - -immigrants in
Northern Europe
-What did the Morrill Acts accomplish? - -gave states land-grants for colleges
-What does the A&M stand for in the following schools: Florida A&M and Texas A&M? - -
agricultural and mechanical education
-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909
and by 1920 had how many members? - -90,000
-In August 1914, Europe began what became known as World War I. At first, America
wanted nothing to do with the fighting and declared neutrality. What does neutrality
mean? - -not supporting either side of a war
-Before the Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan focused only on the supremacy of whites over
Blacks, however when the new version emerged in the 1920, which other group(s) did they
also target? - -Jews and Catholics
-What were the 1950s known as? - -the Jazz Age
-What was the 1920s creative arts and cultural movement called that centered on the
contributions of African Americans? - -Harlem Renaissance
and Answers
Henry Smith was accused of what crime? - -murdering a four-year-old child
-What does denounce mean? - -to publicly declare something as evil
-Paul is an election official in the South who is asked to create a flyer sent to African
America homes that lists an incorrect location for the next election. Democrats would often
change polling places or block the roads to polling places to stifle the Black vote. What were
these efforts called? - -voter manipulation
-As a free Black in the South, you had the right to enter the sharecropping system, which
could have been a reliable way to make money when crops were sold. However, many
Black sharecroppers did not get what was due to them. Why was that? - -They couldn't
read the contract so they had to agree to whatever the land owner gave them.
-What were many African Americans who migrated out of the rural South trying to escape?
- -poverty
-What did the Plessy v. Ferguson case address? - -a legal challenge to segregation
-What had President Lincoln advocated for in 1862 as part of his Preliminary
Emancipation plan that finally came to be in the late 1870s? - -migration of slaves back to
Africa
-During Reconstruction, what did white Southerners work to do? - -reestablish clear
boundaries between Blacks and whites
-What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 declare? - -Discrimination in hotels, trains, and
other public places was unconstitutional.
-While many parts of everyday life—schools, churches, and neighborhoods—were
segregated, why were African Americans particularly outraged about the segregation of the
public transportation system? - -Without it they could not get to jobs.
-Many Blacks migrated to Africa or to the Western territories to escape unbearable
conditions in the South. - -True
-What was the first legal challenge to segregation? - -Plessy v. Ferguson
-African Americans who left the rural South for larger cities did so because of what
economic benefit? - -City workers were paid regularly instead of at the end of the season.
, -Crop liens happened when loans were made to the farmer by a shop owner in exchange
for a specified percentage of the final crop profits. - -True
-It wasn't just racism that caused states to fill their jails and prisons with Black men in the
early 1900s. Why else were they eager to have more Black prisoners? - -States made a
profit by leasing the convicts as laborers.
-Progress for African Americans was a straight line from slavery to equality. - -False
-What is Social Darwinism? - -a theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest
-What does accommodation refer to? - -accepting and working within the system
-What is the Croix de Guerre? - -France's highest military honor
-What do Fisk University, Talladega College, and Tuskegee Institute have in common? - -
They are historically Black colleges.
-The war meant a huge demand for war materials that created many of what type of job? -
-factory workers
-What did white people who believed in scientific racism, which argued that races could be
weakened by "inferior" races, point to as an example of this threat? - -immigrants in
Northern Europe
-What did the Morrill Acts accomplish? - -gave states land-grants for colleges
-What does the A&M stand for in the following schools: Florida A&M and Texas A&M? - -
agricultural and mechanical education
-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1909
and by 1920 had how many members? - -90,000
-In August 1914, Europe began what became known as World War I. At first, America
wanted nothing to do with the fighting and declared neutrality. What does neutrality
mean? - -not supporting either side of a war
-Before the Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan focused only on the supremacy of whites over
Blacks, however when the new version emerged in the 1920, which other group(s) did they
also target? - -Jews and Catholics
-What were the 1950s known as? - -the Jazz Age
-What was the 1920s creative arts and cultural movement called that centered on the
contributions of African Americans? - -Harlem Renaissance
