Explain why the individual, group, or event is significant for understanding African American Studies.

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 resourcesuse your class readings first to answer the terms before resorting to outside sources.

1. Jim Crow

2. Segregation

3. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

4. Frederick Douglass

5. William Green

6. Ida B. Wells

7. Tuskegee University

8. Black Studies

9. 40 Acres and a Mule

10. KKK

11. Lynching

12. 1619

13. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

14. Life of a Slave Girl

15. Civil War

16. Reconstruction

17. White Supremacists

18. NAACP

19. Niagara Movement

20. Harlem Renaissance

Explain why the individual, group, or event is significant for understanding African American Studies.
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