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Black History Bowl

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first African American President of the United States?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Bill Clinton

c)

Barack Obama

d)

Thurgood Marshall

2.

Who was appointed by George Washington to work on the design for the capital?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Benjamin Banneker

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Carter G. Woodson

3.

Who was an educator and Civil rights leader associated with the Tuskegee Institute.

a)

Carter G. Woodson

b)

Crispus Attucks

c)

Elijah McCoy

d)

Booker T. Washington

4.

What did they call the African American Cavalry?

a)

The Freemen

b)

Buffalo Soldiers

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

Black Panthers

5.

What was the first incorporated All-Black Town?

a)

Eatonville

b)

Tampa

c)

Tuskegee

d)

Montgomery

6.

Who is the father of Black History Month?

a)

Carter G. Woodson

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Dr. Martin Luther King

d)

Booker T. Washington

7.

Who was a Free man and a victim of the Boston Massacre?

a)

Elijah McCoy

b)

Crispus Attucks

c)

Johnny Morgan

d)

Frederick Douglas

8.

Who created a steam engine lubricant?

a)

Elijah McCoy

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

Thomas Butting

d)

Garrett Morgan

9.

Who was an African American children's author?

a)

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

John Horse

d)

Harriet

Tubman

10.

Who was a newspaper editor and abolitionist?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Frederick Douglas

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Oprah Winfrey

11.

The first legally sanctioned African American Community in the US was called.

a)

Fort Washington

b)

Fort Mose

c)

Sumpterville

d)

Eatonville

12.

Who was an inventor of peanut butter and 400 other products from plants?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Carter G. Woodson

d)

Elijah McCoy

13.

Who was a nurse, and civil rights activist associated with the Underground Railroad?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Madame C.J. Walker

c)

Mae Jemison

d)

Marion Anderson

14.

A Civil Rights Activist associated with the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson.

a)

Homer Plessy

b)

Jane Casper

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

John Grant

15.

Who was the first black Major League Baseball player?

a)

Barry Bonds

b)

Brooks Robinson

c)

Jackie Robinson

d)

Lonnie Johnson