Midterm Review - African American Literature
20- LACC
[Midterm
Review Fall 2014- Tues. 10/21; Midterm Thurs. 10/23]
Dr.
Lisbeth Gant-Britton
Page
numbers are from Holt African American History. Page numbers may vary slightly,
depending on which edition of the book you have. Otherwise, material is from
class lectures. Please check website for
lecture items. (http://afamlit20.blogspot.com.)
Bring
two (2) new, uncrumpled Scantrons
and a pencil. Use pencil only.
- People from all races/ethnicities have been
enslaved, such as St. Patrick. (Lecture)
- Were any Africans sent to Europe as slaves? As
free blacks? (Lecture)
- Were any Europeans sent to Africa as slaves? (Lecture)
- Who were the Moors? (Lecture)
- In Ancient Egypt, Queens Nefertiti and Cleopatra
and standards of beauty (Lecture)
- What was the Middle Passage? (34-35)
- Did any Africans ever reach China? (Lecture)
- What was the Triangular Trade? (32-33, 37)
- What was chattel slavery? (40-42)
- What was abolitionism? (105-108)
- Who was Benjamin Banneker and what did he do in
science and for the nation’s new capitol? (75 and Lecture)
- Who was David Walker? (106)
- What was “the Underground Railroad”? (97-98)
- What was the Emancipation Proclamation? (122-125)
- What was the significance of the year 1863? (124)
- What was the 13th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution? (131)
- What was the 14th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution? (144)
- What was the 15th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution? (145)
- Who was Booker T. Washington? (176)
- Who was W.E.B. Du Bois? (177-178)
- What are HBCUs? (191-192)
- What institution is generally acknowledged to be
the first HBCU? (Lecture)
- Who was Marcus Garvey and what was the
significance of his organization? (212-213)
- What was the Harlem Renaissance and why did it
occur? (217-222)
- What was the Cotton Club? (220)
- Who was Josephine Baker? (Lecture)
- Who was Langston Hughes? (218)
- What economic opportunity occurred for many
working-class African Americans during World War I and World War II?
(209-211)
- What was blackface and what were the Minstrel
shows? (171)
- Who was James Baldwin? (297)
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