WorksheetsOBOB 2020 The Port Chicago 50
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
In what book are soldiers assigned work according to race?
50 Ways to See Chicago
The Port Chicago 50
The Poor Chicago 50
50 Portly Chicago People
Who wrote a book that describes the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Steven Swenson
Skinny Swanson
Steve Sheinkin
Sean Shienken
What did Mess Attendant Dorie Miller say about his heroic use of an anti-aircraft gun on the sinking USS West Virginia?
I was just doing my job.
It was like shooting womp rats back home on Tatooine.
I just pulled the trigger, and she worked fine.
I had no idea what I was doing
Black American soldiers served honorably with the French in WWI. One famous regiment was known as...
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The Hillbilly Hellcatz
The Bronx Bully Boys
Les Petits Chous
The Harlem Hellfighters
Segregation of the soldiers was so complete, the armed forces even kept this separate:
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egg whites and egg yolks
forks and knives and spoons
left socks and right socks
Black blood and White blood
White officers didn’t think the bombs would explode, because:
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They were full of black powder
They had no detonators
They were cushioned by wooden frames
They had no moving parts
Private Rieves Bell was charged with assault and sentenced to three and a half years in prison. What did he do?
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Refused to take off his uniform
Attacked women in uniform
Hit a man he met on the street
Danced in a whites only club
What dangerous competition did Captain Merrill T. Kinbe introduce when he took over loading?
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Who could ride bombs down the loading ramp
Who could drink the most whiskey on the loading dock
Who could load the bombs fastest
Who could throw bombs the farthest
From the barracks, Robert Routh remembered the explosion made the sky look like this.
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A beautiful Fourth of July
An orange fireball
A smokey black cloud
A blinding white light
The Port Chicago blast threw one two hundred pound chunk of a ship this far from the pier.
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More than 20 miles
More than 2 football fields
More than 2 miles
More than 2,000 yards
On August 11, 44 men refused to load ammunition at roll call. Why were they later known as the Port Chicago 50?
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6 joined the protest later
Big numbers confused military leaders
50 sounded better
It was the year 1950
Admiral Wright told the sailors refusal would be considered mutiny. What was the penalty for mutiny?
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You will be sent to the brig
You will be court-martialed
Up to 20 years in a federal prison
The death penalty
