AAMS Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions 2025

AAMS Final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions 2025 Jim Crow ANSWER A gradual development; laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government Racial etiquette ANSWER strict rules of behavior expected from blacks in the presence of whites; a way white southerners maintained dominance after slavery Booker T. Washington ANSWER Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881 W. E. B. Du Bois ANSWER ; born and raised in a largely white New England town; believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediately; founded the NAACP Anna Julia Cooper ANSWER ; African American scholar was known for covering issues of race and gender in the American south in the late 1800s. She also argued men should not fear women attaining more education Niagara Movement ANSWER (1905) W.E.B. Du Bois and other young activists, who did not believe in accommodation, came together at Niagara Falls in 1905 to demand full black equality. Demanded that African Americans get right to vote in states where it had been taken away, segregation be abolished, and many discriminatory barriers be removed. Declared commitment for freedom of speech, brotherhood of all peoples, and respect for th