Black History Quiz
Last Updated December 12, 2001
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2. What was the purpose of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
3. What crop first created the demand for slave labor in the late 17th century America?
4. In 1857, what did the U.S. Supream Court have to decude in the Dred Scott case?
5. In the 1960's what form of civil rights protest began with a bus ride to the south?
6. Which civil rights group was founded by Marti Luther King jr.?
7. Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?
8. What black explorer accompanied Robert Peary to the North Pole?
9. Name the white abolitionist who led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1858.
10. Nmae the black navigator of the Santa Maria on Columbus' first voyage to the new world.
11. What slave led the bloodest slave revolt in U.S. history?
12. What crop did enslaved Africans teach their American owners how to grow?
13. Name the slave who was first to reach the mouth of the Columbia River as part of the Louis and Clark expedition?
14. Who was the first black man in the Civil War to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor?
15. Who went down in history as the first black military hero of the Revolutionary War?
16. Who was the first American colonist to be killed in the Boston Massacre of 1770?
17. Name the first black regiment recruited for the Civil War.
18. What is the historic name for the African American pilots trained for combat in World War II.
19. What name was given to farmers who paid back a share of what they raised in return for renting the land?
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