Black History Month QuizaDay

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Black History Month Quiz-a-Day

• Directions Use the clues within each question to
  help you guess or find the answer to each
  question. Most questions are based on primary
  sources that can be located at the Library of
  Congress. Some questions call for use of other
  Internet resources. There may be some books in
  the library that will also help.

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Black History Month Quiz-a-Day

• What was the name of the first ever slave
  rebellion that occurred in South Carolina prior
  to the Revolutionary War?
• Beaufort Rebellion
• Stono's Rebellion
• Vesey's Rebellion
• none of the above

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• 2. What year did "Negro History Week" start and
  later become Black History Month and who is
  considered the person who started this endeavor?
• 1865 by Abraham Lincoln
• 1926 by Carter G. Woodson
• 1954 by Martin Luther King
• None of the above

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• 3. The Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves
  was signed by what U.S. President?
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• Barack Obama
• None of the above

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• 4. Benjamin Banneker is an African American who
  lived in the 1700s. He is considered
• the first African American man of science
• the first slavery abolitionist
• the first slave trader
• none of the above

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• 5. Who was known as "Moses of her people?" the
  first African American man of science
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Susan. B. Anthony
• none of the above

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• 6. What organization celebrates its 100th
  anniversary this year?
• NAACP
• Rainbow Coalition
• UCLA
• None of the above

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• 7. These were famous airplane pilots during World
  War II.
• the Code Talkers
• the Tuskegee Airman
• the Wright Air Corp
• none of the above

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• 8. Which is a picture of Frederick Douglass?
• a

c
b
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• 9. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  officially abolished slavery in 1865?
• the 12th Amendment
• the 13th Amendment
• the 14th Amendment
• the 15th Amendment

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• 10. Which U.S. President did not own slaves?
• Thomas Jefferson
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• James Madison
• none of the above owned slaves

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• 11. What white man was so staunchly against
  slavery that he stated upon his death sentence
  handed down by a jury of his peers, "Now, if it
  is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my
  life, for the furtherance of the ends of justice,
  and MINGLE MY BLOOD FURTHER WITH THE BLOOD OF MY
  CHILDREN, and with the blood of millions in this
  Slave country, whose rights are disregarded by
  wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments -- I say LET
  IT BE DONE."
• Joseph Cinquez
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison
• none of the above

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• 12. Who was it that sparked a 381-day bus boycott
  in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955?
• Ralph Abernathy
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• none of the above

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• 13. What time period in U.S. history does the
  term reconstruction typically refer to?
• The years immediately after World War I
• The years immediately after the Civil War
• The years immediately after Barack Obama was
  elected President
• none of the above

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• 14. This is considered to be one of the causes of
  the Civil War. What is it?
• The assassination of President Lincoln
• The book Uncle Toms Cabin
• The twelfth amendment
• none of the above

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• 15. When was the Antebellum period of the U.S.?
• the years during the Civil War
• the years preceding the Civil War
• the years after the Civil War
• none of the above

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• 16. One of this mans Harvard professors,
  Laurence Tribe, said of this man, "I've known
  Senators, Presidents. I've never known anyone
  with what seems to me more raw political talent."
  
• President Abraham Lincoln
• President Barack Obama
• President Bill Clinton
• none of the above

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• 17. Which of these men has not served on the U.S.
  Supreme Court?
• a

c
b
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• 18. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a
  celebration of African American creativity and
  thought. Which person below was NOT part of that
  movement?
• Langston Hughes
• Sidney Poitier
• Zora Neale Hurston
• W.E.B. DuBois

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• 19. Branch Rickey hired this baseball player
  knowing he had the skills and personality to
  break the color barrier in major league baseball.
  
• Hank Thompson
• Jackie Robinson
• Ernie Banks
• Elston Howard

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• 20. What U.S. Supreme Court case led to the
  desegregation of Americas public schools?
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. The Board of Education
• Moore v. Myrick
• none of the above

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• 21. What does the term Jim Crow refer to?
• a professional baseball player
• government-sanctioned racial oppression and
  segregation
• a Native American famous for collecting scalps.
• none of the above

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• 22. The so-called sit-in technique used during
  the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s
  was predicated on
• people always being arrested for not moving
• non violent resistance
• having a comfortable place to sit
• none of the above

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• 23. Who said, If a man is called to be a street
  sweeper, he should sweep streets even as
  Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed
  music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should
  sweep streets so well that all the hosts of
  heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a
  great street sweeper who did his job well.
• President Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Malcolm X
• none of the above

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• 24. This man won four Gold Medals at the Berlin
  Olympics in 1936. This feat rebuked the Nazi
  Party's theories of Aryan racial superiority.
• Ralph Metcalfe
• Marshall Major Taylor
• Jesse Owens
• none of the above

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• 25. This woman was the 15th of 17 children of
  former slaves. She grew up amidst the poverty and
  oppression of the Reconstruction South, yet rose
  to prominence as an educator, presidential
  advisor, and political activist.
• Madame C.J. Walker
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Sojourner Truth
• none of the above

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• 26. Born December 23, 1867, on a plantation in
  Delta, Louisiana, this millionaire inventor and
  business woman was finally recognized for her
  achievements by the U.S House of Representatives
  in 2003!
• Madame C.J. Walker
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Sojourner Truth
• none of the above

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• 27. In 1760 this anti-slavery Quaker of French
  Huguenot descent, pointed out that if buyers did
  not demand slaves, the supply would end. "Without
  purchasers," he argued, "there would be no trade
  and consequently every purchaser as he encourages
  the trade, becomes partaker in the guilt of it."
  Who was he?
• Anthony Benezet
• Benjamin Franklin
• Samuel de Champlain
• none of the above

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• 28. Who said, There are negroes who are
  presently qualified to be President of the United
  States. There are many who are qualified in terms
  of integrity, in terms of vision, in terms of
  leadership ability
• Abraham Lincoln
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Stokely Carmichael
• none of the above

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Answer to question 17.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator,
leader
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