The leading African American scientist and mathematician in early America was __________
a. John Woolman
b. Richard Allen
c. Benjamin Banneker
d. Sojourner Truth
e. Phillis Wheatley
C
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What was the extent of black participation in the new AFASS versus the AASS?
A) The AFASS forbid any black involvement. B) The AFASS allowed blacks a more prominent leadership role. C) The AFASS had more black members, but refused to allow blacks to be leaders. D) The AASS allowed blacks a more prominent leadership role.
What happened in New Orleans in 1832 and 1833?
A) Hurricane Camille destroyed most of the city and killed 25,000 people. B) Measles swept through the city killing 50 percent of the children under age 10. C) An epidemic of yellow fever and cholera killed 1/5 of the population. D) After a group of slaves attempted a rebellion, the army occupied the city and executed 250 slave leaders. E) A fire swept through most of the housing districts killing 15,000 people.
What was happened as a result of the 1906 "Brownsville Incident"?
A) ?? As part of the segregation that was introduced into Washington, D.C., during the Wilson administration, the Federal Government built a new community reserved for African Americans, just 5 miles from the Lincoln Memorial. B) ?? African Americans in Brownsville, Texas, rioted when three white soldiers killed a group of black men who were relaxing at a local tavern. C) ?? When a large freighter sprang a leak in New York Harbor, discharging millions of gallons of brown waste water into the bay, Gifford Pinchot and John Muir joined forces to save the wildlife of the region from extinction. D) ?? Theodore Roosevelt approved the dishonorable discharge of a regiment of black soldiers in Brownsville, Texas, because some members of the unit, goaded by racist taunts, had killed a local civilian. E) ?? When Theodore Roosevelt dined with Booker T. Washington at the White House, white Southern Democrats plastered the building with posters that called the structure "The New Brownsville of America."
By the end of the 1990s, as compared to the era of Jim Crow, black identity was increasingly __________
a) defined by black people themselves b) a matter of legal definitions c) imposed by white people d) irrelevant to most Americans of African heritage