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 (4-5 sentences or 100-150 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 (2 points)
• Describe where it occurred (2 points)
• Explain why the individual, group, or event is significant for understanding African American Studies (2 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. Middle Passage

2. Abolitionists

3. Freedman’s Bureau

4. Great Migration

5. Dred Scott Case

6. Jim Crow (evolution of, laws and customs)

7.  How indentured servitude became race-based chattel slavery

8. The Underground Railroad

9. Booker T. Washington

10. Tuskegee Airmen

11. The role of rice, tobacco, and sugar in creating chattel slavery

12. Black Codes

13. Homer Plessy case

14. 2nd Middle Passage (internal slave trade)

15. Harlem Renaissance

16. Lynchings

17. Blues music (influence and origins)

18. Reconstruction

19. W.E.B. DuBois

20. the KKK

Part Two: Essay (100 points)

You are required to answer one of three essay questions described below. The essay portion must be 4-5 pages in length, double-spaced, numbered, include 1 inch margins, use 12 point Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font.

Your essay must include a Works Cited page. The citation style of the Works Cited page may be either Chicago, APA, or MLA. The selected citations must be appropriate to the exam topic and the citations must support the assertions made in the exam.

Your essay will include three main parts—the Thesis/Introduction, Argument, and Conclusion.

The Introduction section should clearly state the thesis within the first 1-2 paragraphs. The thesis must be relevant and appropriate to the argument and demonstrate an accurate and complete understanding of the question. This section should make it clear which question you are answering, but it should do more than restate the question by offering a brief response and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.

The Argument section (3-4 pages) should incorporate pertinent details from the assigned readings but you may also use outside readings. The section must provide relevant historical evidence to support the thesis and the key claims made in the argument as needed. It should maintain focus and avoid sidetracking. It should present your answer to the question clearly and concisely in an organized manner and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.

The Conclusion section should be in the last part of your essay exam within the last 1-2 paragraphs. It should briefly restate the thesis and summarize the main points of the argument. It should also demonstrate insight and understanding regarding the question asked and it should be free of grammar and spelling errors.

A scoring rubric for the essay portion is included below. Please answer one of the following essay questions:

1. Beginning with the slavery period and including up to approximately World War II, explain ways that slaves, and then black people in general, took ownership of their own situation and sought to improve it – through various means; by resistance, revolt, flight, and empowering themselves and each other.

2. Explain what the general pre-19th century attitude and belief about slavery was, including its existence and its future in America among its land-holding elite. Then explain the reasons for how and why this changed in a rather short period of time, and what the general attitude towards slavery became by the first half of the 1800’s. 

3. Various labels for the massive movements of black people over time have been given – usually in terms of passages or migrations. Typically 4 or 5 are identified. Thus far in class we have discussed three of these. Identify the 3 passages or migrations, explain what they entailed, what caused them, their approximate time periods, and their impact on America.

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