WorksheetsJuneteenth Celebration
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
How long after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation did the enslaved people of Texas learn that they were free?
4 years
3 and a half years
11 months
2 and a half years
Approximately how many enslaved people were there in Texas?
200,000
250,000
300,000
350,000
What is NOT another name that Juneteenth has been referred to as?
Liberation Day
Freedom Day
Cel-Liberation Day
Jubilee Day
What city in Texas was it announced that enslaved people were now free?
College Station
Beaumont
Galveston
Corpus Cristi
Texas was the first state to declare Juneteenth a holiday. What year did this occur?
1967
1977
1979
1981
As a senator, Barack Obama, co-sponsored legislation to make Juneteenth a national holiday.
True
False
Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas was bought specifically to celebrate Juneteenth
True
False
The star on the Juneteenth flag only represents Texas.
True
False
What was the name of the General who came to Galveston to deliver the message that all enslaved people were free?
General Gordon Granger
General George Galveston
General Gary Granger
General George Goode
What was the number of the order that General Gordon Granger read?
1
2
3
4
January 1st was once considered as an option to celebrate the freeing of enslaved people before Juneteenth was decided on as the holiday.
True
False
Which event during the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr. brought new life to the Juneteenth holiday?
March on Washington
The Poor People’s March of 1968
Selma to Montgomery March
Montgomery Bus Boycott
