Introduction to African American Culture Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Introduction to African American Culture explores the historical, social, and artistic contributions of African Americans from the colonial era to the present day. The course examines the development of key cultural expressions including music, literature, visual arts, religion, and social movements while considering the influence of race, identity, and systemic challenges on African American life. Through interdisciplinary readings, discussions, and media, students gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics that have shaped and continue to influence African American culture and its enduring impact on American society as a whole.
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African American Odyssey The Combined Volume 5th Edition by Darlene Clark Hine
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Chapter 1: Africa
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Q1) Most West Africans in the early sixteenth century made a living as ___________.
Answer: farmers
Q2) In the hierarchal society of West Africa, slavery
A) had no place and never existed until white Europeans (the Portuguese) introduced it.
B) was a permanent condition - the children of African slaves were also always slaves.
C) functioned as a means of assimilation into West African societies.
D) was introduced by the Greeks and Romans.
Answer: C
Q3) Women in West African society generally
A) were dominated by older women and had some formal governmental offices and posts.
B) were considered the free and independent individuals.
C) had more sexual freedom than women in Europe.
D) generally were responsible for nothing other than the care of children.
Answer: D
Q4) Most of the northern third of the African continent is made up of the ___________ Desert.
Answer: Sahara
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Chapter 2: Middle Passage
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Q1) Which European country took the lead in exploration and colonization in the early 1400s?
A) Portugal
B) France
C) England
D) Switzerland
Answer: A
Q2) The Spanish and Portuguese dominated the early slave trade with the Africans. Which nation ousted them from this status in the early seventeenth century?
A) Holland
B) England
C) France
D) Germany
Answer: A
Q3) Sometimes slaves were sold at auctions; at other times, however, they were sold in the ________, where buyers rushed into a pen to rope or grab the slaves they wanted.
Answer: scramble
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Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America
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Q1) What area did slaves see as an escape from slavery during the early 1700s?
A) the North
B) Spanish Florida
C) any area west of the Mississippi
D) Canada
Answer: B
Q2) Which word or phrase best describes the status of black people in early Virginia?
A) ambiguous
B) completely subordinate
C) independent
D) set in stone
Answer: A
Q3) What colonies made up the "low country"?
A) Virginia and Maryland
B) Carolina and Georgia
C) Georgia and Florida
D) all the southern colonies, from Virginia southwards
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the
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Q1) Which scholar/philosopher was an influence on Enlightenment thought in Europe?
A) John Locke
B) Andrew Jackson
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Socrates
Q2) Why did many Quakers take the lead in abolitionism?
A) Quakers had strong African roots.
B) Quaker ideology had long stressed principles of brotherhood of man and nonviolence.
C) Quaker church members served with blacks in the army during the American Revolution, and had seen first hand their bravery and commitment to liberty.
D) Quakers had never owned slaves, and therefore had no economic interest.
Q3) For what is Benjamin Banneker well known?
A) He was renowned for his knowledge of chemistry.
B) He was the first black civilian employee of the American government.
C) He was a well-known minister in the Boston area.
D) He was a military leader who led black troops into battle during the American Revolution.
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Q1) Which of the following was not a difficulty faced by early black schools?
A) There were threats of violence against them by whites.
B) They never had sufficient enrollment.
C) African-American parents thought that schools were useless.
D) Funding was a constant problem, as many African Americans had little money.
Q2) What were the earliest separate institutions formed?
A) churches
B) newspapers
C) civil rights organizations
D) mutual aid societies
Q3) Regarding black military service during the War of 1812, what had white Americans practically forgotten?
A) Haiti's revolution
B) blacks' heroism and service during the American Revolution
C) the violence of Gabriel's revolution and the Louisiana Revolution
D) the origins and development of slavery and blacks' desire for freedom
Q4) What was the name of the first governing document of the United States of America?
Q5) Which slave led a rebellion in Virginia in 1800?
Q6) What was the name of the first anti-slavery society in the world?
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Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom
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Q1) What crop did most agricultural slaves tend?
A) cotton
B) potatoes
C) hemp
D) rice
Q2) Why did slaves prefer even dirty, menial industrial labor to plantation work?
A) They were paid steady, high wages.
B) There was less freedom in industrial work, but they could socialize more with friends.
C) Generally, they had more autonomy on the job.
D) They could enjoy the repetition of the work, and not worry about advancement.
Q3) What health problem did Europeans have to worry about, but African Americans were generally immune to?
A) food poisoning
B) lactose intolerance
C) dysentery
D) malaria
Q4) Who was the most famous of the animal tricksters found in African-American folktales?
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Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America
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Q1) What generalization can be made about New England and the middle states and the enfranchisement of black men?
A) Because racism was strong in the North as well as the South, all of these states disenfranchised black voters.
B) All of these states allowed all black men to vote.
C) All of these states limited black men and women's voting in some way.
D) Generalizations are impossible: Some states forbid black voting, some continued to allow it, and some merely limited it in some way.
Q2) What types of laws did Indiana, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin pass regarding black citizens in their states?
A) They all allowed blacks to vote, and banned segregation.
B) They all pushed for women's rights well before the beginning of the national women's rights movement.
C) They banned all blacks from the state in their constitutions.
D) They tried to bring slavery into their states, but failed.
Q3) What black institution continued to be the center of black communities?
Q4) What party brought about the repeal of Ohio's black laws?
Q5) Which African-American singer earned the nickname "The Black Swan"?
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Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery
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Q1) Who was the most prominent black advocate of black migration to Africa during the early 1800s?
Q2) What was one way women could enter the public sphere in nineteenth-century America?
A) through church and benevolent society activities
B) through running for public office
C) through speaking in public on whatever subject they wished
D) through secretly distributing books on politics
Q3) What role did white southerners think that free blacks played in slave revolts?
A) White southerners thought that free blacks were incapable of independent thought, and therefore would not have a role in revolts.
B) White southerners thought that free blacks were an extremely dangerous element, and responsible for inciting slaves to rebellion.
C) White southerners mainly thought that foreigners, not free blacks, had the main role in slave revolts.
D) White southerners thought that free blacks played a minimal role, since they realized that slaves were unhappy in slavery and would try to get out of it.
Q4) Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?
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Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance
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Q1) How did the New York Liberty Party interpret the Constitution?
A) They felt that it supported slavery and should be replaced or amended.
B) They felt that it outlawed slavery throughout the entire country.
C) They thought that it provided a justification for outlawing slavery in the territories.
D) They felt it should be abolished and replaced with a semi-communistic system.
Q2) What was the usual destination of the slaves on the underground railroad?
Q3) How did whites justify racism in the 1830s and 1840s?
A) Many whites actually began to denounce racism in this time period.
B) Scientists argued that racial differences were permanent, and indicated people's status in the world.
C) Scientists at that time argued that race was the product of environment.
D) Scientists argued that non-whites actually began the human race, but didn't benefit it technologically.
Q4) What was the name of Frederick Douglass's influential newspaper?
Q5) Why did some black abolitionists become increasingly militant during the 1840s?
A) They were inspired by various slave rebellions and mutinies on ships.
B) They were unable to organize in any way because of racism.
C) They were extremely angry about whites continuing to subordinate women.
D) Historians do not yet understand this phenomenon.
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Q1) What eventually happened to the Crafts?
A) Like all other slaves found under the Fugitive Slave Act, they were returned to their former owner and severely punished.
B) They were killed as they tried to return to the South to retrieve their children.
C) They escaped to England with the help of abolitionists in Boston.
D) They fled to Cuba.
Q2) The Wilmot Proviso, if it had been passed, would have
A) allowed slavery in any area of the United States.
B) gained Canada from the British.
C) prohibited slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico, to reserve them specifically for whites.
D) made Mexicans and Native Americans slaves alongside blacks, in the territory acquired from Mexico.
Q3) What did John Brown want to accomplish with his army during 1859?
A) to keep the United States together during the Civil War
B) to establish a separate, independent black nation within the United States
C) to bring Texas into the union
D) to invade the South and end slavery
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Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
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Q1) Who was the Confederate officer in charge of the Fort Pillow massacre?
Q2) How did blacks react to Lincoln's plan to abolish slavery by compensating owners?
A) They would have preferred immediate abolition, but thought his idea was a good compromise, since it would free the slaves.
B) They approved of this idea, as it was what they had forced on him.
C) They were never informed of the idea, and therefore had little reaction.
D) They were vehemently against the idea, as it seemed to recognize slaves as property, rather than as human beings.
Q3) Which black unit was involved in the assault on Battery Wagner in July of 1863?
Q4) Which of the following slave states was never a member of the Confederacy?
A) Virginia
B) Delaware
C) Tennessee
D) North Carolina
Q5) What Union commander began the policy of accepting runaway slaves as "contraband"?
Q6) What Union victory preceded Lincoln issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
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Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction
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Q1) Which black man was selected from South Carolina to participate in the 1864 Republican National Convention?
A) Frederick Douglass
B) Earl Little
C) Robert Smalls
D) Booker T. Washington
Q2) What form did the violence in the South take?
A) only against individuals, when whites saw blacks "stepping out of line"
B) generally, only with mobs of whites lynching black men
C) generally, with significant provocation from the black victim before murders took place
D) violence was widespread, and took any form and any level of brutality
Q3) What was not a common feature of many sharecropping agreements?
A) Most of the time, landowners accepted a share of the crop for rent.
B) Sharecropping agreements spelled out blacks rights to vote and certain constitutional rights.
C) Landowners sometimes made requirements about what crops could be planted and raised.
D) Laborers could not quit or strike.
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Chapter 13: The Meaning of Freedom: the Failure of Reconstruction,
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Q1) Who were the carpetbaggers and the scalawags?
A) Carpetbaggers were Republicans from the North; scalawags were white southerners who supported the Republicans.
B) Scalawags were Republicans from the North; carpetbaggers were white southerners who supported the Republicans.
C) Carpetbaggers were black Democrats from the South; scalawags were white northerners who supported the Republicans.
D) Carpetbaggers were Democrats from the North; scalawags were black southerners who supported the Republicans.
Q2) Which of the following statements is not true about black officeholders during Reconstruction?
A) They were always well-qualified for their office.
B) Only a small minority had attended college.
C) Some had been free before the war; some had been slaves.
D) Farmers and workers were well represented.
Q3) ______________ College was the first historically black state university, founded in 1872.
Q4) Where was the KKK founded?
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Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African
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Q1) What problem did farmers not face during the later nineteenth century?
A) They had to depend on banks for loans, since they weren't self-sufficient any longer.
B) Businessmen, not farmers, dominated economic life in America.
C) They had easy access to railroads at very cheap prices.
D) Farmers faced very few problems during the late nineteenth century.
Q2) Who was the last black man from the South to serve in Congress until Andrew Young in 1972?
A) George H. White
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Hiram Revels
D) Booker T. Washington
Q3) Which of the following was not a political organization for farmers?
A) the Grange
B) the Patrons of Husbandry
C) the Southern Farmers' Alliance
D) the American Farmers and Workers Party
Q4) What was the name of the case that upheld Louisiana's segregation laws?
Q5) What system did white southerners devise for convicts, which provided very cheap (and mostly black) labor for businessmen?
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Chapter 15: Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy
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Q1) Which of the following is true about blacks in business in the late nineteenth century?
A) Some blacks had the opportunity to move up in white-owned corporations.
B) In order to succeed in business, blacks generally had to cater to other blacks.
C) Many blacks were able to succeed with whites by being totally subservient.
D) Blacks actually had no businesses of their own during the late nineteenth century.
Q2) What was the Spanish-American War about?
A) America wanted to liberate Cuba from Spanish control.
B) America wanted to capture the Philippines.
C) America wanted portions of Canada, occupied at that time by the Spanish.
D) America was attempting to gain control of portions of Spanish Africa.
Q3) What was characteristic of ragtime music?
A) It had very complex rhythms, emphasized by drums and clapping.
B) It was actually an African type of music, imported to America in the early twentieth century.
C) It was performed on the piano, without lyrics.
D) Ragtime was a pre-civil war phenomenon that never had written music or lyrics.
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Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African
Americans in the Early Twentieth Century
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Q1) How did General John Pershing acquire the nickname "Black Jack"?
A) He had commanded black troops in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
B) He had segregated his troops by race during the Spanish-American War.
C) He had ordered several black soldiers shot for desertion.
D) He was an excellent poker player.
Q2) How did Booker T. Washington react to the Atlanta Riot of 1906?
A) He became an outspoken opponent of the use of violence by blacks.
B) He said that black resistance would only lead to more black deaths, and urged racial harmony.
C) He decided to support liberal arts education, as a way of preventing violence.
D) He advocated the use of self-defense and violence in the Atlanta Riot, since blacks had been attacked first.
Q3) Who was the most prominent black person associated with the NAACP in the early twentieth century?
A) Booker T. Washington
B) W. E. B. Du Bois
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Harriet Tubman
Q4) What was the first college sorority for black women?
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Chapter 17: African Americans and the 1920s
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Q1) What role did white women like Amy Spingarn and Charlotte Osgood Mason play in the Harlem Renaissance?
A) They were patrons, helping fund writers' works, but they also tried to direct their efforts.
B) They were racist young women, who attempted to find every way possible to stop blacks from writing.
C) They were competing authors, who generally beat out Harlem Renaissance artists for publishing opportunities.
D) They were wives of influential congressmen, who had black artists' works read in the White House.
Q2) What did authors like Jessie Fauset and W. E. B. Du Bois think the purpose of black literature should be?
A) to promote a positive image of blacks, and help resolve racial conflicts
B) to be very political, and stay away from fiction or imagined situations
C) that art should portray ordinary, even poor black people, with their good and bad sides
D) that art should be an expression of black nationalism, like Garvey was expressing
Q3) What organization was Randolph asked to lead in 1925?
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Q1) How was the Agricultural Adjustment Act unevenly implemented?
A) Control of AAA money was left to national boards.
B) White landlords often gave the money to more subservient blacks, rather than all their tenants.
C) White landlords sometimes evicted tenants from their land during the Great Depression.
D) Blacks were actually given first choice at AAA funding.
Q2) How did the Railway Labor Act amendments of 1934 affect the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
A) It completely destroyed the union, since it said that black people had no right to organize into unions.
B) Its provisions eventually forced the Pullman Company to recognize the union and bargain with it in good faith.
C) It had no effect on blacks, since it failed to include any provisions about unions.
D) It said companies had to bargain with unions, but was so weak it never had any real effect.
Q3) Who was the first black Democrat to ever win a House of Representatives seat?
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Chapter 19: Meanings of Freedom: Culture and Society in the 1930s
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Q1) Which of the following is true about the difficulties faced by black artists in the 1930s and the 1940s?
A) They were never allowed to include political views in their works.
B) Whites simply refused to accept black art or culture in any way..
C) They often had to depend on whites for the financial backing to publish their work.
D) Black artists were actively associated with the Communist Party at this time.
Q2) What role did the WPA and the Federal Arts Project play in the development of black arts?
A) They played a critical role, funding black art projects that would not have existed otherwise.
B) Both agencies discriminated against blacks, and did not assist with the development of black art.
C) Both merely funded academic studies, and had little effect on the arts.
D) No black art from the period would exist without the two agencies.
Q3) Who was not involved in the origins of the early Nation of Islam faith?
A) Elijah Muhammad
B) Wali Farad
C) Timothy Drew
D) Father Major Jealous Divine.
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Chapter 20: The World War Ii Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1936-1948
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Q1) Who led the Dixiecrat Party revolt in 1948?
Q2) What statement did Paul Robeson make that particularly infuriated anti-communists in the United States?
A) Robeson advocated that all blacks move immediately to the Soviet Union.
B) Robeson declared that he would not be drafted to fight in the Cold War.
C) Robeson could not understand why blacks should go to war for a country that denied them their civil rights.
D) Robeson made public comments stating that he thought HUAC had been infiltrated by communists.
Q3) What was not a War Department policy change during World War II?
A) The War Department began to put out propaganda to emphasize contributions of black soldiers.
B) The Marine Corps began accepting black members.
C) African Americans began to be trained as officers and fight in combat roles.
D) African American women began to be accepted in some minimal combat roles.
Q4) What area saw the most dramatic increase in black population during World War II?
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Chapter 21: The Freedom Movement
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Q1) How did Kennedy react to the actions of Ross Barnett and George Wallace?
A) He approved of their decisions to allow students to attend universities.
B) He acted decisively, sending in or federalizing troops to ensure black students were admitted to universities.
C) He refused to do anything, allowing them to deny admission to black students.
D) He told them verbally he supported their actions, disappointing his black supporters.
Q2) What was the ultimate outcome of the Albany Movement?
A) It was a complete success-with King's assistance, they desegregated the entire town.
B) Blacks were able to make some limited gains, like desegregating the lunch counters.
C) Blacks were appointed to several political offices by the mayor to prevent further violence.
D) It was a complete failure-although the city initially agreed to compromises, they quickly refused to implement any changes.
Q3) Who was responsible for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers?
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Q1) How did King feel about the Vietnam War after 1966?
A) He became more supportive of the war as the United States began beating the communists there.
B) He never made a public statement about the war.
C) He was increasingly critical of the war as well as the idea that blacks should fight for a country that wouldn't guarantee or protect their civil rights.
D) He vacillated constantly over the war, and never really came to a firm position before his death.
Q2) Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Communists in 1945 and after?
A) Kim Il Sung
B) Ho Chi Minh
C) Vo Nguyen Giap
D) Nguyen Minh
Q3) Who was the first black woman to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list?
Q4) Which of the following was not a Great Society program?
A) Community Action Programs
B) Head Start
C) Social Security Act
D) Volunteers in Service to America
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Chapter 23: African Americans at the Millennium
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Q1) What rap artist emerged to counter the images of women presented by gangsta rap artists?
Q2) Regarding health around the turn of the twenty-first century,
A) African Americans continue to have lower infant mortality rates.
B) Life expectancy has declined slightly since the 1950s.
C) Although many African Americans are healthier, they often distrust the health-care system.
D) Skin cancer has become a leading problem among African Americans.
Q3) Why have some blacks criticized gangsta rap?
A) It is generally too loud, and damages the eardrums of children.
B) Its lyrics are often anti-women, violent, and offensive.
C) It advocates having blacks in subordinate positions to whites in society.
D) It is generally only copying other musicians' creative efforts.
Q4) How was the cultural flowering of the 1980s and 1990s different from that in the 1960s and 1970s?
A) The art included more political flavor than before.
B) Literature was mainly aimed toward poetry in languages other than English.
C) Film began to be used as a political tool and art form.
D) The 1980s and 1990s included women, especially novelists, to a greater degree.
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Q1) How did the Rodney King verdict show differences between whites and blacks regarding American justice?
A) Blacks and whites actually came together to support the verdict.
B) Blacks saw the acquittal of the police officers as an example of continued injustice while whites saw it as preserving law and order.
C) Blacks and whites actually came together to oppose the verdict.
D) Blacks saw the fact that Rodney King was released as evidence that the American court system favored whites.
Q2) What was the effect of trickle-down economics under Reagan?
A) Middle-class people and lower class people's incomes went up, and more jobs were created.
B) Wealthy people's incomes rose significantly, but unemployment went up.
C) Black people gained in status, especially economically.
D) The United States became the wealthiest industrialized nation in the world.
Q3) What significant first did Ronald Brown achieve?
A) He was the first black man to run for the presidency.
B) He became the first black man to lead a major national political party.
C) He was the first black man to be elected mayor of a predominantly white city.
D) .He was the first black man to be selected to the US Supreme Court.
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