Africa
Colonial
Westward Expansion
Civil War
Industrializ.
Formation of US
Civil Rights Movement
Hip Hop
Milwaukee History
100
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The water clock created by the Egyptians....
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What is clepsydra?
100
The name of the African thumb piano...….
What is the kalimba?
100
In 1927, she was a lecturer who spoke for the freedom of the slaves, the cause of women's rights, temperance, prison reform, and better conditions for working people...
Who is Sojourner Truth?
100
What was the first Civil Rights Act passed?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
100
This person was the co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was part owner and editor of the Memphis Free Speech and an outspoken critic of discrimination and injustice.....
Who is Ida B. Wells Barnett?
100
Former slave that was killed in the Boston Massacre in 1770 and was called the "First American Martyr in the Revolutionary War"........
Who is Crispus Attucks?
100
In 1960, four Black college freshmen sat down at a lunch counter in a dimestore in Greensboro, North Carolina, and were refused service. This demonstration was....
What was the First Sit-In?
100
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The song and group that created the first rap song to hit the U.S. Billboard charts...
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Who is Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang?
100
Ferne Caulker, a native of Sierra Leone, West Africa, and professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Dance, founded this African Dance Company in1969....
What is Kho-Thi Dance Company?
200
The ancient name of the northern part of Africa...
What is Nubia?
200
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Common materials used in African sculpture and art....
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What is clay, wood, silver, gold, ivory?
200
The expansion of slavery led to the passing of this law which allowed Arkansas to be admitted to the Union as a slave state.........
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
200
He was an excellent abolitionist whose militant voice earned him the title "spokesman for his race". He spoke for the right of Black men to fight in the Union Army of the Civil War. He published the anti-slavery newspaper the North Star......
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
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Between 1619 and 1808, how many slaves were brought to the Americas.........
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Over six million Africans were brought over as slaves.....6,000,000
200
This Constitutional Amendment gave Blacks equal protection under the law....
What is the 14th amendment?
200
He became the first Black Mayor of a major American city...
Who is Carl B. Stokes? (Mayor of Cleveland)
200
The Jamaican DJ also called the Father of Hip Hop..
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
200
He was a Milwaukee native and a jazz vocalist who earned seven Grammy awards and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.....
Who is Al Jarreau?
300
The Egyptian alphabet that mean sacred carvings....
What is hieroglyphics?
300
Literature that tells about the slaves and their experiences; where animals take on the characteristics of people.....
What are folktales?
300
This Black Surveyor had a photographic memory, which he used to redraw all of the plans for building the city of Washington, D.C. when the plans were taken to France...
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
300
From 1849 to 1861, this woman made 19 successful trips as a conductor of the Underground Railroad. She led more than 300 slaves to freedom...
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
The month long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean for slave trips carrying slaves from Africa and America...
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This Constitutional Amendment gave Black men the right to vote.....
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
He started a Muslim newspaper with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks. Also, well known for the slogan "By Any Means Necessary"...
Who is Malcolm X?
300
The name of the group that started out as part of the Native Tongues Posse with Queen Latifah and the Jungle Brothers and were promoters of the Afrocentricity movement to make African Americans aware of their heritage....
Who is a Tribe Called Quest?
300
The name of the business and entertainment district on Walnut Street between North Third and North Twelfth Streets started by African Americans who were trying to overcome economic obstacles and survive discrimination during the 1930's 40's and early 50's......
What is Bronzeville?
400
In 218 B.C. this military genius crossed the alps with elephants and 26,000 men to capture Rome.....
Who is Hannibal?
400
In 1777, this was the first U.S. territory to abolish slavery.....
What is Vermont?
400
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This author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was born in 1802...
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Who is Alexandre Dumas?
400
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With this presidential act, Abraham Lincoln officially freed the slaves...
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This music pattern that came from Africa has an alternating leader and chorus refrain....
What is call and response?
400
In this court case did the Supreme Court sustain segregation on intrastate railroads....
What is Plessy Vs. Ferguson?
400
This organization, led by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, in 1967, became the most famous Black Power organization of the late 1960's it called for U.S Black people to gain control of their own communities...
Who is the Black Panther Party for Self Defense?
400
in 1988, this duo won rap's first Grammy Awards..
Who is DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince?
400
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The youngest African state legislator to hold a seat in Milwaukee........Representing the 16th District
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Who is Kalan Haywood?
500
The first paper which is often rolled into scrolls, was made in Egypt from what plants......
What is papyrus?
500
Using African cooking methods, slaves used this vegetable to make hoecake, mush hominy, and roasted ears.....
What is corn?
500
One Black Americans' most important contributions in dance, this style originated from the slave experience and was also performed by Sammy Davis Jr., Gregory Hines, Bill "Bo Jangles" Robinson, and the Mastin Trio....
What is tap dancing?
500
This Constitutional Amendment ended slavery....
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
This genre of song was often sung by black slaves in American and included "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"..
What are Spirituals?
500
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Laws perpetuated a system that prohibited Blacks from activities such as shaking hands, sitting and dining with other Blacks, and sitting at the front of the bus, restricted some stores to whites only and prohibited Blacks from using rooms and eating food in hotels....
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What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
In the 50's and 60's she was considered the top female jazz vocalist and was called "The First Lady of Song"....
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
500
In 2005, this Brooklyn born rapper became president and CEO of Def Jam Records as well as Roc-A-Fella Records. He also owned a portion of the Brooklyn Nets and is currently a sports agent.....
Who is Jay-Z?
500
Known for his monumental work in Wisconsin law and prepared the desegregation lawsuit Amos Vs. Board of state Directors in 1965, which received a favorable judicial ruling in 1976 calling for the desegregation of MPS......
Who is Lloyd Barbee?
600
This statue in Egypt resembles the body of a lion with the face of a person......
What is the Sphinx?
600
This structure is called one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World and was built in Egypt........
What is the Great Pyramid?
600
Which river flows from the highlands of East Africa to the Mediterranean Sea and is the largest river in Africa?
What is the Nile River?
600
In this legal case a slave sued for his freedom on the grounds that his residency in a territory from which slavery was excluded made him free even after his return to a slave state....
What is the Dred Scott case?
600
This genre of music reflects the pain of losing in love and life.....
What is The Blues?
600
This inventor's parents escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad and was educated in Scotland as a mechanical engineer. His mechanical inventions brought him more than 50 registered patents..
Who is Elijah McCoy?
600
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In 1959 he founded the Motown Record corporation, the first recording home of The Temptations, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smoky Robinson, and Stevie Wonder...
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Who is Berry Gordy Jr.?
600
This group produced the hit "The Message" which has played a significant role in the hip hop culture and help bring to light many issues facing the urban community in the early 80's......
Who is Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five?
600
In 2004 she became the first African American to run for U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District....
Who is Gwen Moore?