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History 333 Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The walls at Hampton Institute were decorated with pictures of... | white benefactors and models of industrial progress |
| Booker T. Washington celebrated the value of | industrial (vocational) education and manual labor |
| The Talented Tenth | A term coined by WEB DuBois that the top ten percent of educated African Americans would provide leadership for the race |
| Why did DuBois believe Washington's program would fail? | It accepted segregation and disfranchisement and did not demand full civil and political rights |
| What was one of the differences that the Black soldiers faced that the white soldiers didn't? | Black soldiers faced segregation, discriminatory treatment, and limited opportunities for advancement |
| John E. Lewis's letter | was written to counter racist claims and coument the bravery and accomplishments of black soldiers in the war |
| Why did Henry Turner oppose U.S. intervention in the Philippines | He believed it was imperialistic and hypocritical for the U.S. to deny freedom to others while oppressing African Americans |
| What did Jim Crow restrictions prompt black people to do? | to create their own institutions and businesses within segregated communities |
| Why did Black-owned businesses often struggle? | Because they had limited access to capital and were resticted to a poor customer base due to segregation |
| What did Scott Joplin incorporate in his music? | Combined European classical music traditions and African rhythms to create ragtime |
| 19th century black schools | In late 19th century most African American children attended segregated schools |
| AA's between 1880-1900 | AA's advanced in literacy. education, and istiution building despite increasing segregation |
| Andrew Carnegie & BookerT. Washington | Carnegie showed support of Washington by financing construction of black schools and colleges |
| Who opposed the Tuskegee model | WEB DuBois |
| Why did black land grant colleges existed according to Thomas E. Miller? | To provide practical agricultural and industrial education to uplift the race |
| In 1890 what was the most popular denomination among southern AAs | Baptist Church |
| What did AAs expect of their ministeres | To be community leaders and spiritual guides |
| The Army Reorganization Act of 1869 | Established four permanent black regiments in the regular army |
| What country sparked the Spanish-American War | Cuba |
| Why did the War Department believe the black soldiers were fit for the Spanish-American War | thought blacks were accustomed to tropical climates |
| Social Darwinism | Was used to justify racial inequality and segregation |
| The Supreme Court Ruling of Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education | supported the legality of segregated and unequal public education |
| Why did most rural students attend school for fewer than 6 months per year | Because children were needed for farm labor and school funding was limited |
| Samuel Chapman Armstrong | white Union general and missionary educator |
| Hampton Institute created | teachers and industrial workers |
| Where did most black immigrants from the Caribbean come from | British colonies |
| What did the delegates at Niagara Falls in 1905 call for | full civil and political rights and an end to segregation and formed the Niagara Movement |
| Atlanta Compromise | A speech made by Booker T. Washington for racial accommodation and economic self-help at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta |
| BTW's relationship with Juluis Rosenwald | befriended white philanthropists to build black schools |
| What was a key source of BTW's political power | His influence with white political leaders and control over patronage |
| Who did BTW have political appointments with | President Theodore Roosevelt |
| Purpose of the Afro-American League | Challenged segregation and defend African Americans civil rights |
| DuBois's POV of AAs | they possessed a double consciousness |
| What did The Souls of Black Folk talk about | the psychological and social effects of racism, including double consciousness |
| Early years of the NAACP | was interracial and focused on legal challenges to segregation and discrimination |
| Who worked with the NAACP to pass an anti-lynching law | Congressman Leonidas Dyer |
| What was DuBois's primary focus in the NAACP | editing and writing for the Crisis magazine and promoting civil rights through scholarship and protest |
| National Urban League | focused on assisting black migrants in finding jobs and housing in northern cities |
| Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin | helped form the National Association of Colored Women |
| What blubs were named in honor of Phillis Wheatley | Phillis Wheatley |
| Anna Julia Cooper | An educator and black feminist |
| What inspired Shelby J. Davidson's inventions | his work in the U.S. Treasury Department |
| What did DuBois and Wiliam Monroe Trotter's support of Woodrow Wilson symbolize in 1912 | Broke political tradition because Blacks hisotircally supported the Republican Party |
| What was Wilson's 1916 slogan | He kepy us out of war |
| U.S. military authorieis in WW1 | Segregate dblack troops and limited them to labor units |
| How did the French treat AAs | treated them with respect and without the racial prejudice common in the U.S> |
| What led to the creation of the NAACP | An attack on black residents of Springfield in 1908 |
| Racial violence in Houston in 1917 | Pitted AA soldiers against city police |
| Rosewood incident in 1932 | Led to the destruction of the black communtiy of Rosewood and led to the deaths of several residents |
| What was known as the Negro Capital of the World in the 1920s | Harlem |