WorksheetsBlack History Month
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 46mins
European colonizers first used _____ servants from Europe.
indentured
paid
chained
native
Slavery had been practiced in Africa since at least _____ BCE.
2000
200
6800
680
All of the following were conditions of slavery except _____.
beatings, torture
not enough to eat
no decent homes
went to school
What were some of the jobs that slaves did?
housekeepers
blacksmiths
field hands
all of these
Who is an abolitionist?
A person who is for slavery
A person who is anti-slavery
A black person
A white person
Who was one well-known abolitionist from that time?
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Turner
Frederick Douglass
What secret organization helped people escape slavery?
The Underground Railroad
The Chartroose Caboose
The Santa Fe Railroad
The Pony Express
In what year did the Civil War start?
1861
1862
1863
1864
The _____ Proclamation said that all enslaved people in the Confederate states would be free on January 1, 1863, if the Confederacy did not rejoin the Union.
Emacipation
Religious Freedom
Wright Brothers
Bill of Rights
Which amendment ended slavery in the United States?
10th
11th
12th
13th
The main goal of the Underground Railroad was helping those who escaped get to free states or _____.
Mexico
Guatemala
Canada
Puerto Rico
The _____ Slave Act of 1793 passed with the help the President George Washington.
Fugitive
Voting Rights
Religious Freedom
A major figure of the Underground Railroad was _____. He used his knowledge to help lead his brother to escape after he searched for him for 40 years.
William Still
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Which religious group from Pennsylvania helped enslaved people?
The Mennonites
The Quakers
The Holy Rollers
The Amish
All of the following were used to talk about the Underground Railroad EXCEPT _____.
agents
stations
conductors
stockyards
Martin Luther King, Jr. supported nonviolent resistance. He used his words instead of his fists.
True
False
What was the name of the segregation rules?
the Jim Crow laws
the Bessie Coleman laws
the Harriet Tubman laws
the Booker T. Washington laws
For which speech was Martin Luther King, Jr. famous? He won the Nobel Peace Prize a year later for this speech.
"I Have a Dream"
"I Have an Idea"
"I Have Hopes"
"I Have a Headache"
What kind of boycott occurred in Montgomery, Alabama? It lasted for more than a year.
car
train
airplane
bus
Booker T. Washington worked in a _____ mine.
salt
gold
silver
uranium
How far did Booker walk to the Hampton Institute?
2 miles
50 miles
200 miles
500 miles
Booker helped to develop the _____ Normal and Industrial Institute.
Tuskegee
Spelman
Howard
Booker believed that African-Americans in the United States should rely on _____ and business to change their position in society.
education
food
violence
Which war ended slavery in the United States?
the Civil War
the Vietnam War
the Revolutionary War
the War of 1812
Which person did you enjoy learning about?
Harriet Tubman
William Still
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
What was something that both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Booker T. Washington liked to do?
read
ride bikes
play videogames
bake
