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Famous Americans

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following was the first African Americans Supreme Court Justice?

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Colin Powell

c)

Benjamin Banneker

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

2.

Which of the following was the head Diplomat for the USA (it's called Secretary of State)?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Benjamin Banneker

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Colin Powell

3.

Which was the first woman to obtain the first International Pilot license?

a)

Shirley Chisholm

b)

Bessie Coleman

c)

Frances Harper

4.

Which man was most important to the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

Colin Powell

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

Benjamin Banneker

d)

W.E.B. Dubois

5.

Which woman was an author, speaker, civil rights activist, poet, abolitionist, suffragette and worked to end the sale of alcohol in the USA (temperance)?

a)

Shirley Chisolm

b)

Bessie Coleman

c)

Frances Harper

6.

Which woman was elected to the House of Representatives for seven terms and was the first woman to run for President for a major party?

a)

Shirley Chisholm

b)

Bessie Coleman

c)

Frances Harper

7.

Which of these men held the higher position in our government (he led the country in the greatest changes of law for all Americans)?

a)

W.E.B Dubois

b)

Benjamin Banneker

c)

Colin Powell

d)

Thurgood Marshall

8.

Which of the following designed our Nation's Capitol City?

a)

Benjamin Banneker

b)

Colin Powell

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Louis Coleman

9.

Which of the following led a boycott of company because he believed that company would not hire and keep African American Workers?

a)

Colin Powell

b)

Louis Coleman

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Frances Harper

10.

Of all of these women, which had the greatest power in the USA?

a)

Shirley Chisholm

b)

Bessie Coleman

c)

Frances Harper