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100
The history of African Americans, in what was to become the United States, began when a Dutch ship anchored off Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. Captain Jope is believed to have exchanged his cargo of Africans for food. How many Africans were exchanged.
What is 20?
100
In 1634, farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region imported white and black indentured servants and later, enslaved Africans to profitably grow this crop. It became an important export crop because of its popularity in Europe. In Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, vast areas were devoted to this crop. Plantation owners imported large numbers of enslaved blacks to cultivate it, dry its leaves, and pack it for transport to the market.
What is tobacco?
100
On December 24, 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman sent a telegram to President Lincoln "giving" him this city as a Christmas gift. Sherman and his army troops had just captured the city, the second largest in the state, and a major supply center for the Confederacy. He captured weapons, ammunition, and 25,000 bales of cotton. He did not destroy the city since the Confederate soldiers had already left. Name the city and state where it is located.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
100
This black woman from Senegal was sold to a tailor in Boston, Massachusetts. She learned to read and write and, before she was 20 years old had achieved some fame as a poet. She gained her freedom in 1772, made a trip to London to read her poems,and in 1773, became the first African American to publish a book of poetry. Her book was entitled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Who was she?
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
100
By using the cotton gin, invented in 1793, a man could deseed and clean cotton more efficiently. Using a horse to turn this machine, it could clean about 50 times as muchcotton as before. It quickly made cotton the leading crop in the South and the chief export crop for the region. For example, in 1803 alone, over 20,000 enslaved blacks were brought into Georgia and South Carolina to work in the cotton fields. Who invented the cotton gin?
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
In 1740, this colony had the largest number of enslaved black people. Name it and the number. Another colony had the largest proportion of enslaved black people in their total population. Name it and the percentage.
What is Virginia, 60,000 and South Carolina, two-thirds of the population?
200
In 1638, the first enslaved Africans arrived in New England along with a cargo of salt,cotton, and tobacco, aboard a ship called _______.
What is Desire?
200
Rice cultivation in the United States can be traced to enslaved Africans from rice-producing areas of Africa being brought to colonial South Carolina. Some of these slaves had previously been brought from the interior of Africa to the West Coast where they were taught how to grow rice before being sold. Enslaved blacks with this expertise were more valuable than others in the world market. The rice region in Africa may have contributed more than 40 percent of the enslaved Africans to colonial South Carolina. Name this major rice-producing region in Africa.
What is Senegambia?
200
She was perhaps the first African American musical artist to become famous outside the United States. She began her career with a concert before the Buffalo Musical Society and later gave concerts for European royalty, including the Queen of England in 1854. A Buffalo, New York newspaper called her "the Black Swan." Who was she?
Who is Elizabeth Greenfield?
200
This enslaved runaway black person was among the first to die in the American Revolution. He died on March 5, 1770 during the Boston massacre when British troops fired into an unruly crowd in Boston. Those who died in this event were buried in a common grave in Boston’s Old Granary Burial Ground. In 1888, Boston erected a monument to the heroes of the massacre in the City’s Public Garden. While there is little known about the first patriot to be killed in the massacre, some scholars believe that he worked as a harpoonist on a whaling ship before arriving in Boston. His life is a reminder that the African American experience is a heritage that starts with the beginning of America. Name this black patriot.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
300
In 1860, this percentage of the African Americans in the United States lived in the South.
What is 92 percent?
300
By 1652, laws in some colonies protected the limited rights of indentured servants.For example, a servant could receive money, clothes, land, and other property when his/her service contract ended. What did colonists call the materials the servants received.
What is "freedom dues"?
300
During the early 1800s what city became known as "the seat of black affluence" because of the wealthy free black inventors and businessmen who lived there?
What is Philadelphia, PA?
300
In 1831, this African American woman, along with 16 black and white women, founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. She was a leading abolitionist, community activist, and generous giver to social and abolitionist causes. She encouraged her children to devote considerable time to social causes. Name her.
Who is Charlotte Forten, Sr.
300
This black person fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. He later petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to help him and other returned to Africa. This is considered the first recorded attempt by free blacks to return home. He later becomes the first African American to join a Masonic Order. Later, he established his own order that has a membership of over 250,000 today. Name him.
Who is Prince Hall?
400
On June 8th and June 13, 1866, this amendment to the Constitution was passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress, the House of Representative and the Senate, respectively. The amendment defined citizenship to include all those born or naturalized in the United States. This guaranteed citizenship for blacks and equal protection under the law. Because most southern states refused to ratify this amendment, several Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Benjamin Wade, and Benjamin Butler urged the passing of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867. These acts divided the South into five military districts controlled by military law, proclaimed universal manhood suffrage, and required new state constitutions to be drawn up. In the meantime, Congress sent this amendment to the states for ratification, but ratification did not occur until 1868. Name the amendment.
What is the Fourteenth?
400
This important document originally had a section that denounced slavery, but was deleted before the document was adopted in 1776.
What is Declaration of Independence?
400
In 1854, Anthony Burns, a enslaved runaway, was arrested in this city. His slaveholder had secured a court order requesting that he be sent back to slavery in Virginia Marine, cavalry, and artillery troops were called into this city to stop an uprising of thousands of citizens attempting to protect Burns and prevent his return to slavery. This is the city where this uprising occurred?
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
400
Two sisters, daughters of a Quaker judge of the South Carolina Supreme Court, were outspoken female abolitionists. One daughter published Appeal to the Christian Women of the South; the other published Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Their anti-slavery publications brought a storm of criticism and insults because Quaker women “were not expected to be as outspoken on political issues.” Name the sisters.
Who is Angelina Grimke and Sarah Moore Grimke?
400
In 1783 this wealthy free black merchant and other free blacks of Dartmouth, Massachusetts protested to the state legislature that they were being taxed without representation. The courts decided that black men who paid taxes in Massachusetts could vote there. Name this merchant and leader.
Who is Paul Cuffe?
500
This holiday started in Texas in the years following the Civil War. African Americans have celebrated this month and date every year as the ending of slavery. In 1865 this date became important in African American history because the Union army entered Galveston, Texas, and ordered that all slaves in the state be freed. Interestingly, when the Union soldiers did this, the Civil War had been over for two months and those enslaved in the state had been freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier. Slave owners in Texas, however, had kept the news from their slaves. Today, this month and day is a annual celebration that includes music, food, games, and picnics. What is this day called and when is it (month and day)?
What is June 19th (Juneteenth)
500
William and Ellen Craft met as enslaved persons in Macon, Georgia. Because they did not want to bring children into the world to be enslaved, they planned to escape and flee to the North. In December 1848, they disguised themselves--he as an enslaved person and she as a gentleman and slaveholder--and boarded a train from Georgia to Philadelphia. Abolitionists in Philadelphia protected them until they sailed for England. Later, they wrote a book about their escape. Name the title of their book.
What is Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom?
500
Between 1820-1860, the largest number of urban slaveholders was found in this city.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
500
This black woman was forced to flee to Canada to avoid the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. There, she started the Provincial Freeman--a weekly newspaper. She is considered the first African American woman to publish a newspaper in North America. Name her.
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
500
This black person wrote a widely published letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1791 that argued that it was absurd to think of Africans as an inferior race. Just one year prior to his letter to Jefferson (then Secretary of State), he had published his first Almanac, using some of the most advanced scientific and mathematical principles of the time. Name this person.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
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