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Black Saga 2021
100
What is the word used to describe the "great scattering" of African people from their communities in Africa to other parts of the world?
What is Diaspora
100
In the ancient African empires of Ghana and Mali, what metal was especially important to their growth and power?
What is gold
100
In 1481, a West African ruler gave the Portuguese permission to build a trading outpost in what today is the country of Ghana. This outpost, built in 1482, became the first of many “slave factories” built by Europeans along the west coast of Africa. Hundreds of thousands of captives were packed into this trading outpost until they were crammed and shackled onto Portuguese and Spanish (and later Dutch and English) ships. Name this trading outpost.
What is Elmina Castle
100

The earliest known English slave trading voyages to Africa and America were the London-owned ships Salomon, Swallow and Jonas in 1562. The last known voyage was the Liverpool ship Kitty’s Amelia in 1807. In the 245 years between the earliest and last voyages, about how many slaving voyages left from English ports to Africa for slaves? over 11,000 voyages; About how many enslaved Africans did they carry from their homeland to the Americas?

What is some 3.3 million; the numbers of enslaved Africans carried by English ships represented up to 1/3 of all the Africans forcibly carried to the Americas during the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

100
In 1627, tobacco exports soared from 180,000 to about 500,000 pounds pounds in this year alone. Tobacco was the important cash crop for several colonies. This English ruler was heard to say that Virginia was “wholly built on smoke.” Name the ruler who said this.
What is King Charles I
100

This person was rejected from the University of Maryland Law School.

Elijah Cummings

200
The continent of Africa is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to the east. A narrow strip of land in its northeast corner connects it to the Arabian Peninsula and beyond that to Asia and Europe. How does Africa rank in physical size in relation to other continents?
What is second
200
What major river valley contributed to the social, economic, and political growth of three ancient African empires--Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
What is Niger River Valley
200
In 1502, what country was the first to bring a cargo of enslaved Africans into the Western Hemisphere?
What is Portugal
200
Enslaved Africans brought a popular stringed musical instrument to America in the 17th century. Few African Americans play it today. Name the instrument.
What is banjo
200
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 the “tidewater region” of the Chesapeake colonies (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. Name this crop.
What is tobacco
200

This individual was one of the first to reach the North Pole.

Matthew Henson

300
There is evidence that Africans came to the Americas as early as the 8th century. Sculptures reflecting African influence are found in several towns in Mexico. Name the civilization or culture in Mexico that reflects African influence.
What is Olmec culture
300
During the period between A.D. 500 and 1600, what great city in Songhai grew to have a population of more than 100,000 residents and had a business, religious, and intellectual center?
What is Timbuktu
300
Africans were members of the expedition of Pedro Mendez that founded the oldest city in the United States. Name the city.
What is St. Augustine, Florida
300
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
300

Slavery became legal in Maryland

What is 1664

300

This person was an excellent speaker, author, and poet

Francis Ellen Watkins Harper

400
In West Africa three great empires emerged between A.D. 500 and 1600. Each had a powerful army and controlled great wealth. Name these powerful African empires.
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
400
This country sent sailors out to explore the coast of West Africa. Under the sponsorship of Prince Henry the Navigator, in 1441, they captured no less than ten African people as “gifts” to Prince Henry. Name the country.
What is Portugal
400

In 1522, where did the first major rebellion by enslaved Africans occur in the Americas?

What is Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today)

400
In 1621, this small European country created a company that almost immediately challenged Portugal's control of the slave trade in Africa. By the mid 17th century, it had taken control of the major trading routes in the Americas and the Caribbean. It was these traders who brought the first Africans to the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Name this country and the company that controlled the slave trade at the time.
What is Holland and the Dutch West India Company
400
In 1638, the first enslaved Africans arrived in New England, along with a cargo of salt, cotton, and tobacco, aboard this ship. What was this ship called?
What is Desire
400

 

He worked as a cabin boy where he learned to read and do navigation.

Matthew Henson

500
Name the formal religion practiced by most residents of Songhai during the period between A.D. 500 and 1600.
What is Islam
500
In the mid 1400s, the Portuguese and Spanish sailors began frequent raids of West African coastal countries such as Senegal, Guinea, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast to capture Africans and sell them to the wealthy. By 1449, it is believed that about how many Africans lived in Portugal alone?
What is about 900
500
In 1526, enslaved Africans rebelled in a Spanish territory that later became an English colony and then a state of the United States. Name it.
What is South Carolina
500
In 1623, the first black child was born in the American colonies. He was born to Isabella and Anthony Johnson. He was born free because neither of his parents was enslaved. Name him.
What is William Tucker
500
The first known incident of an African becoming enslaved in the United States occurred in 1640 when this person ran away with two white servants. After their capture, the white servants had their work time increased by five years, while the African became a “servant for life”. Name him.
What is John Punch
500

This person was the first African American Supreme Court judge

Thurgood Marshall

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