African American Studies · Unit 3 · Paper 2

The Practice of Freedom unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 36 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 31 min 28 points0/17 attempted

Ella Baker

Great Migration: scale and causes

Lynching as terror

Disenfranchisement mechanisms

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

New Negro

Tuskegee Airmen

Emmett Till (1955)

Black church as institution

Marcus Garvey and the UNIA

SNCC (1960)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Chicago Defender

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: GI Bill's unequal administration

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Negro spirituals and coded meaning

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: NAACP (1909)

3 pts

Free response

4 pts

Explain how the Harlem Renaissance contributed to a shift in African American political and cultural identity during the 1920s and 1930s. Provide TWO specific examples of cultural or intellectual figures from the period to support your explanation.