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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Tuesday, July 23, 2024 10:52 AMAAMS Finale Exam Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
African American Studies is best described as - ✔️✔️an inter/multidisciplinary field that analyzes
and treats the past and present culture, achievements, characteristics
Who argued the following: "...any Negro who is born in this country and undergoes the
American educational system runs the risk of becoming schizophrenic." - ✔️✔️James Baldwin
The __________ Desert covers the northern third of the African continent. - ✔️✔️Sahara
__________, is the first West African kingdom of which there is any historical record. -
✔️✔️Ghana
Mansa Musa, a ruler of the Mali Empire during the 14th century, - ✔️✔️was one of the wealthiest
men the world has known
__________ was the largest of the great West African kingdoms. - ✔️✔️Mali??
Things Fall Apart was written by - ✔️✔️Chinua Achebe
The cultural practices of the people depicted in Things Fall Apart were adapted from the author's
knowledge of the __________ people of West Africa. - ✔️✔️Igbo
__________ was Okonkwo's most favored child. - ✔️✔️Ezinma
Which character in Things Fall Apart made the following statement? "The white man is very
clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and
allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers and our clan can no longer act like one." -
✔️✔️Obierika
_____ took the lead in the exploration and colonization of Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the
early 1400s. - ✔️✔️Portugal
Until the early 1500s, the European demand for enslaved Africans was fairly low. What changed
that? - ✔️✔️the growth of racism?;discovery by columbus & need for labor on agricultural
plantations
Why did Africans capture other Africans and sell them to Europeans? - ✔️✔️Warfare among
African tribes led to selling defeated tribes to make money and to get rid of opponents.
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__________ were the headquarters for European companies that traded for slaves or engaged in
other commercial enterprises on the West African coast. - ✔️✔️factories??
Which of the following best describes the triangular system produced by the Atlantic slave trade?
- ✔️✔️the middle part of the trade included traders carrying African slaves to the West Indies and
exchanging slaves for sugar
Founded in 1672, the __________ was granted a monopoly in the slave trade. Between 1680 and
1686, the company transported an average of 5,000 enslaved Africans a year. - ✔️✔️the Royal
African Company
What steps did the Europeans take to reduce the risk of rebellion at the slave factories in Africa?
- ✔️✔️Men and women were separated into separate trading towns. Slaves were kept drugged and
shackled with heavy chains.
Over the history of the Atlantic slave trade, an estimated _____ Africans were deported to the
New World. - ✔️✔️12.5 mil?
The __________ took place in South Carolina in 1739. - ✔️✔️Stono Rebellion
__________ was the first permanent British settlement in North America. - ✔️✔️Jamestown, VA
What effect did the discovery of tobacco as a cash crop in Virginia have on the colony's labor
supply? - ✔️✔️The British needed more labor, although they initially turned to their
"undesirables" as a source.
The introduction of __________ transformed Black life in the South Carolina Lowcountry. -
✔️✔️rice??
What status did slaves have during approximately the first twenty years of Georgia's colonial
existence? - ✔️✔️Slavery was outlawed in Georgia during the early years of the colony.
Why was most slave resistance before the late-1700s generally not part of a coordinated attempt
by Blacks to destroy the entire institution? - ✔️✔️ideas of natural human rights and equality of all
would not spread until the American Revolution.
With the _____ over 500 Africans, from 50 different nations with 50 different languages, waged
a fight against U.S. troops and the territorial militias. Their aim was to establish an independent,
Black republic. - ✔️✔️Haitian revolution??
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