Posted: January 31st, 2022

African American Studies

Part One: Identifications (10 points each; 200 points total)
This section requires you to write short answers to each identification question. There are 20 identification questions worth 10 points each for 200 points total. Each answer must address who, what, when, where, and why in the identification.
Each answer should be no more than one paragraph in length (roughly 5-6 sentences or 150-200 words), double-spaced with 1-inch margins using 12- point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font. You are not required to include citations. Each answer must:
• Identify the individual named, author, event, and other key individuals and groups (2 points)
• Discuss what the identification term or name is about (2 points)
• Describe when it occurred (1 point)
• Describe where it occurred (1 point)
• Explain why the individual, group, or event is significant for understanding African American Studies (4 points)
Listed below are twenty identification terms you will need to answer in Part One of the exam. You must answer all twenty terms to receive full credit. DO NOT copy and paste language from classroom resources or any other source. This is an act of plagiarism and is a violation of the academic integrity pledge you signed in Week 1.
The twenty identification terms are drawn from Weeks 1-4 of the AASP 201 classroom resources. Please use your class readings first to answer the terms before resorting to outside sources.
1. Charles Hamilton Houston
2. Dred Scott
3. Talented Tenth
4. Freedmen’s Bureau
5. Fountain Hughes
6. Jezebel
7. Southern Horrors
8. Frederick Douglass
9. “Forty acres and a mule”
10. Great Migration
11. Tragic Mulatto
12. Middle Passage
13. Booker T. Washington
14. Jim Crow
15. Harlem Renaissance
16. Plessy v. Ferguson
17. Kate Dudley Baumont
18. William Green
19. The Birth of a Nation
20. Zora Neale Hurston

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Part One: Identifying (10 points each; 200 points total)
You must provide brief responses to each identification question in this section. There are 20 identification questions for 10 points each, for a total of 200 points. In the identification, each answer must address who, what, when, where, and why.

Each response should be no longer than one paragraph long (approximately 5-6 sentences or 150-200 words), double-spaced with 1-inch margins, and written in 12-point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman type. It is not necessary to include citations. Each response must include:

• Identify the named individual, author, event, and other important individuals and groups (2 points)

• Explain the significance of the identification phrase or moniker (2 points)

• Describe when it happened (1 point)

• Describe where it happened (1 point)