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Black History Bowl Round 3

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the holiday that celebrates the freedom from slavery?

a)

Independence Day

b)

Emancipation Day

c)

Juneteenth

d)

Kwanzaa

2.

This word means "the act of ending slavery."

a)

Emancipation

b)

Manumission

c)

Discrimination

d)

Abolition

3.

This is often referred to as the Columbian Exchange:

a)

Great Awakening

b)

Middle Passage

c)

Triangular Trade

d)

Segregation

4.

During this time, many preachers shared the Bible with slaves.

a)

The Civil War

b)

Reconstruction

c)

The Great Awakening

d)

Juneteenth

5.

At first, African Americans were not allowed to fight with this army, but eventually they were granted permission to do so.

a)

The Civil War Army

b)

The Continental Army

c)

The Revolutionary Army

d)

The Colonial Army

6.

This abolitionist was a freed slave from New York.

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Phyllis Wheatley

d)

Sojourner Truth

7.

Which amendment gave black men the right to vote?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

1st Amendment

8.

All of the following are historically black colleges EXCEPT:

a)

Wilberforce University

b)

Spellman College

c)

Fisk University

d)

Hanson University

9.

What is emancipation?

a)

The act of a master freeing a slave

b)

Setting someone free from the power or control of another person

c)

The act of ending slavery

d)

Keeping people of different races or groups apart

10.

Who wrote a book about his capture from his African village when he was 10 and his journey to the Caribbean, and then to Virginia?

a)

Alex Haley

b)

Olaudah Equiano

c)

Crispus Attucks

d)

Frederick Douglass

11.

This abolitionist escaped from slavery when he or she was 29 years old.

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Phyllis Wheatley

d)

Dred Scott

12.

Treating people differently because of their race, religion, gender, or place of birth is called what?

a)

Racism

b)

Manumission

c)

Discrimination

d)

Segregation

13.

The act of a master freeing a slave is called what?

a)

Racism

b)

Manumission

c)

Discrimination

d)

Segregation

14.

During this part of the Triangular Trade, thousands of Africans died on the journey from Africa to America.

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

The Middle Passage

c)

The Civil War

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

15.

Which of the following is NOT a historically black college?

a)

Morehouse College

b)

Tuskegee University

c)

Fairhaven College

d)

Bethune-Cookman University

16.

What event dealt with states that separated from the Union during the Civil War?

a)

Dred Scott Decision

b)

13th Amendment

c)

Great Awakening

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

17.

Name the country's oldest private black university.

a)

Tuskegee University

b)

Wilberforce University

c)

Fisk University

d)

Spellman College

18.

Who started a newspaper devoted to anti-slavery?

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Phyllis Wheatley

19.

Which historical figure is also referred to as Moses?

a)

Crispus Attucks

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Gabriel Prosser

d)

Phyllis Wheatley

20.

Approximately how many historically black colleges and universities are there?

a)

Less than 50

b)

Between 75 and 100

c)

Just over 100

d)

Between 50 and 75

21.

Dred Scott believed he had become free when his slave master took him to which area?

a)

Virginia

b)

Canada

c)

Illinois

d)

New York

22.

The journey from Africa to America was known as what?

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Triangular Trade

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Great Awakening

23.

What do we call a change to the Constitution?

a)

Proclamation

b)

Revision

c)

Addendum

d)

Amendment

24.

Which act ended slavery?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

1st Amendment

25.

Keeping people of different races or groups apart is called what?

a)

Racism

b)

Manumission

c)

Discrimination

d)

Segregation