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Black History | 10 Question History Multiple Choice Quiz

This quiz will be about the history of African Americans. It's realy easy.

A multiple-choice quiz by essiell. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
essiell

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
233,357

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
3154

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955? Hint

Sojourner Truth

Rosa Parks

Ida B. Wells

Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr.

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who gave the "I have a dream" speech? Hint

Crispus Attucks

Jesse Jackson

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christopher Columbus

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which President signed the Emancipation Proclamation? Hint

George Bush

Theodore Roosevelt

Lyndon B. Johnson

Abraham Lincoln

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Question 4 of 10

4. What is the fifteenth amendment? Hint

Black women were given the right to vote

Blacks were given the right to vote

Black men were given the right to vote

Women were given the right to vote

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Question 5 of 10

5. When was Martin Luther King assassinated? Hint

1968

1964

1967

1963

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who is the poet, diplomat, and anthologist of black culture? Hint

Frederick Douglass

Jesse Jackson

Martin Luther King

James Weldon Johnson

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who was the former American slave, the first black to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives?
Hint

James Weldon Johnson

Elizabeth Catlett

Edward Kennedy

Joseph Hayne Rainey

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who was the first-ever African American player in MLB? Hint

Jackie Robinson

Moses Fleetwood Walker

Jack Johnson

Joe Louis

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Question 9 of 10

9. What team did the first MLB African-American baseball player, of the modern era, play for?
Hint

Miami Heat

Angels

Cardinals

Brooklyn Dodgers

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Question 10 of 10

10. What Negro slave became a naval hero for the Union in the American Civil War?
Hint

Duke Ellington

Langston Hughes

Robert Smalls

Jim Crow

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who didn't give up their seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus in 1955?

Answer: Rosa Parks

This was the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama.

2. Who gave the "I have a dream" speech?

Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

He gave this speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on 28 August 1963 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968.

3. Which President signed the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

This document proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the Confederate states.

4. What is the fifteenth amendment?

Answer: Black men were given the right to vote

There are other amendments gave blacks rights too.

5. When was Martin Luther King assassinated?

Answer: 1968

He was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

6. Who is the poet, diplomat, and anthologist of black culture?

Answer: James Weldon Johnson

He wrote the black 'national' anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

7. Who was the former American slave, the first black to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives?

Answer: Joseph Hayne Rainey

He was born in Georgetown, South Carolina. Joseph Rainey (1832-1887) served in Congress from 1870-79.

8. Who was the first-ever African American player in MLB?

Answer: Moses Fleetwood Walker

Moses Fleetwood Walker first played for the Toledo Blue Stockings in 1883. Jackie Robinson began his career in 1947.

9. What team did the first MLB African-American baseball player, of the modern era, play for?

Answer: Brooklyn Dodgers

Jackie Robinson 1947: he would get called names but he still made it through.

10. What Negro slave became a naval hero for the Union in the American Civil War?

Answer: Robert Smalls

Robert Smalls (1839-1915) later went into politics.

Source: Author essiell

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