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black history

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who invented the first clock?

a)

David Banner

b)

Benjamin Banneker

c)

Benjamin Maker

d)

David Benjamin

2.

What does the acronym HBCU stand for?

a)

Historically Black Colleges and Unicycles

b)

Historical Brownie Cupcakes

c)

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

d)

History Because of You

3.

Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?

a)

Ben Franklin

b)

Garrett Morgan

c)

JP Knight

d)

Morgan Freeman

4.

Harriet Tubman was known as "Moses" because

a)

she led her people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

b)

she was really old.

c)

some people thought she was a man.

d)

she parted the waters of the Nile River.

5.

The first African-American pilots in the US military were known as

a)

the Tennessee Airmen

b)

The Flying Aces

c)

The Miracle Men

d)

The Tuskegee Airmen

6.

This civil rights leader used non-violent methods like marches and boycotts to gain support for equal rights for all.

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

Rosa Parks

7.

These young men staged a "sit-in" at the Woolworth lunch counter on February 1, 1960.

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

The Greensboro 4

c)

The Tuskegee Airmen

d)

Jackie Robinson and George Washington Carver