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Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

A railroad that ran underground like a subway

b)

A secret railroad that ran from Georgia to Pennsylvania

c)

A network of homes and people who helped slaves escape to the North

d)

A network of Southern spies during the Civil War

2.

How did Henry Brown escape slavery?

a)

A clever disguise

b)

He had himself shipped in a wooden box from Virginia to Philadelphia

c)

Traveling along the Underground Railroad

3.

What is an abolitionist?

a)

Someone who supported the end of slavery

b)

A runaway slave

c)

A soldier for the Confederacy

d)

A supported of slavery

4.

Who was Frederick Douglas?

a)

A president during the Civil War

b)

The most important African American abolitionist and intellectual of his day

c)

A journalist that published the Black Abolitionist Papers

d)

A sailor

5.

When Robert Smalls met Abraham Lincoln at the White House, Smalls convinced Lincoln to...

a)

End the war

b)

Appoint him as Vice President

c)

Allow black people to fight in the U.S. Armed Forces

6.

Who was the first human to step foot on the North Pole?

a)

Robert Peary

b)

Sir Edmund Hillary

c)

Matthew Henson

d)

Reinhold Messner

7.

According to Kevin Hart, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton all worshiped this OG guitar god.

a)

B.B. King

b)

Robert Johnson

c)

Muddy Waters

d)

Stevie Ray Vaughan

8.

Who was the first black woman astronaut?

a)

Sally Ride

b)

Shannon Lucid

c)

Mae C. Jemison

9.

George Speck/Crum invented the...

a)

Tater Tot

b)

French Fry

c)

Baked Potato

d)

Potato Chip

10.

Joe Louis was a famous...

a)

Basketball player

b)

Football player

c)

Boxer

11.

In the 1920's Josephine Baker travels to _____ and felt liberated from racism there.

a)

Venezuela

b)

China

c)

Paris

d)

Canada

12.

Josephine Baker was not only an amazing entertainer, but she was also a...

a)

cartographer

b)

scientist

c)

secret spy

d)

pirate

13.

________ was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license.

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Bessie Coleman

c)

Jacqueline Cochran

d)

Harriet Quimby

14.

Vivien Thomas, one of the most brilliant and respected surgeons ever, developed a procedure to cure...

a)

Biliary atresia

b)

Pyloric stenosis

c)

Blue Baby Syndrome

d)

Gastroschisis