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African-American History Quiz
1.
Which of the following documents included the “Three-Fifths Compromise,” which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?
Missouri Compromise
13th Amendment
Bill of Rights
US Constitution
2.
Which African-American man led a bloody rebellion in response to slavery in Virginia in 1831?
Daniel Shay
Nathaniel Bacon
John Brown
Nat Turner
3.
Which of the following included a new Fugitive Slave Law that required federal marshals to actively look for and arrest escaped slaves?
13th Amendment
Missouri Compromise
US Constitution
Compromise of 1850
4.
Which woman was an escaped slave who worked as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, and served as an armed scout and spy for the US Army during the Civil War?
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Belle Boyd
5.
Which African-American woman, after escaping slavery, became an advocate for women’s rights and gave the “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Tubman
6.
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories?
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
Loving v. Virginia
Dred Scott v. Sandford
7.
Which of the following documents abolished slavery throughout the entire United States?
Missouri Compromise
13th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
19th Amendment
8.
Which man escaped slavery and became a national leader in the abolitionist movement, and was the first African American to run for vice-president?
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
9.
Which man strove to improve educational opportunities for African Americans and founded the Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
George Washington Carver
Marcus Garvey
10.
Which African-American journalist published an exposé titled “Southern Horror,” which documented lynchings in the late 1800s?
Billie Holiday
Maya Angelou
Ida B. Wells
Josephine Baker
11.
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions ruled that “separate but equal” public facilities were constitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Loving v. Virginia
Plessy v. Ferguson
12.
Which person was a botanist who taught poor farmers about alternative crops to cotton, which included peanuts and sweet potatoes?
W.E.B. Du Bois
George Washington Carver
Jackie Robinson
Booker T. Washington
13.
Which African-American composer, known as the “King of Ragtime Writers,” produced hits including “The Entertainer” and “Maple Leaf Rag,” and also taught future ragtime composers?
Blind Willie McTell
W.C. Handy
Scott Joplin
Jelly Roll Morton
14.
Which author and activist wrote
Malcolm X
Medgar Evers
W.E.B. Du Bois
Thurgood Marshall
15.
Which organization was founded in 1909 to promote racial equality, and eliminate racial hatred?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
16.
Which famous musician, known as the “Father of the Blues,” composed “Beale Street Blues?”
Duke Ellington
W.C. Handy
Blind Willie McTell
Scott Joplin
17.
Which writer and shipping entrepreneur advocated for the return of African Americans to Africa?
Huey Newton
Medgar Evers
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
18.
Which woman was a dancer, singer, and actress who became an international star and worked as an honorable correspondent for France during World War II?
Billie Holiday
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Josephine Baker
19.
Which writer and poet, well-known for his poem,
Paul Dunbar
Martin Luther King Jr.
Langston Hughes
Emmett Till
20.
Which African-American man won four gold medals at the 1936 summer Olympics?
Jesse Owens
Jackie Robinson
Hank Aaron
Satchel Paige
21.
Which African-American woman, whose works include,
Josephine Baker
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Aretha Franklin
22.
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball and thereby end racial segregation in the professional league?
Hank Aaron
Jackie Robinson
Satchel Paige
Jesse Owens
23.
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions overturned the “separate but equal” precedent for public schools?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Loving v. Virginia
Dred Scott v. Sandford
24.
Which African American refused to give up a seat in the colored section to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, which sparked a boycott and a continued effort to achieve desegregation?
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ida B. Wells
Maya Angelou
25.
For what accomplishment are the Greensboro Four known?
They were lynched because they refused to give up their seats on a bus.
They launched a sit-in as a means of attaining racial integration.
They were a best-selling musical group in the 1960's.
They were jailed for registering blacks to vote in the South.
26.
Which African-American civil rights leader was assassinated in Mississippi in 1963 because of his attempts to eliminate segregation and register black voters?
Emmett Till
Malcolm X
Bayard Rustin
Medgar Evers
27.
Which African-American civil rights leader advocated nonviolence and wrote
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Lewis
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
28.
Which African-American civil rights leader advocated black self-defense and rejected racial integration?
Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
John Lewis
Jesse Jackson
29.
Which civil rights leader was the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped promote the idea of Black Power?
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Louis Farrakhan
James Meredith
30.
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriages were unconstitutional?
Marbury v. Madison
Loving v. Virginia
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Sandford
31.
Which African-American activist helped found the Black Panther Party?
Huey Newton
Jesse Jackson
Toni Morrison
Louis Farrakhan
32.
Who was the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
Johnnie Cochran
Colin Powell
Clarence Thomas
33.
Which African-American woman was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and wrote
Ida B. Wells
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
34.
Which African-American woman, whose works include
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston
Ida B. Wells
Toni Morrison
35.
Which African-American leader was active in the Civil Rights Movement and later made two attempts to become president of the US in the 1980s?
Tim Scott
Jesse Jackson
Colin Powell
Louis Farrakhan
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