Who
This US president signed a bill making Juneteenth a national holiday.
Who is President Joe Biden?
What is the end of slavery in the United States?
What is June 19th?
This state is where the holiday originated.
What is Texas?
This colony is where the first captives were brought to America for slavery.
What is Jamestown?
This US president signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
This is another name for Juneteenth.
What is Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, or Black Independence Day?
This is the year that Juneteenth became a federal holiday.
What is the 2021?
Name one of the border states.
What is Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?
This is the name of the state and local laws that enforced racial segregation after slavery ended.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
This female was known as the "Moses of her people." She escaped her own slavery and helped hundreds of others escape to freedom.
This symbol is on the Juneteenth Flag.
What is a star?
This is the year that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
What is 1863?
This is the name of the famous network of routes and safe houses that were used to aid slaves escaping to free states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This is approximately how many people where enslaved in the US when Lincoln was elected in 1860.
What is 4 million?
This former slave founded the antislavery newspaper called, "The North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglas?
This amendment in the US Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in America.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
This is the year the civil war ended.
What is 1865?
This was the first state to abolish slavery.
What is Vermont? (in the year 1777)
The color red is sometimes worn on this holiday to symbolize what?
What is the bloodshed and resiliency of African American ancestors?
This Confederate General surrendered to Union forces, thereby ending the Civil War.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
These are the colors of the Juneteenth flag.
What is red, white and blue?
This is the year that federal law banned the import of enslaved African people.
What is 1808?
This is where Union General Gordon Granger marched his troops on June 19th and announced that all enslaved people were officially free.
What is Galveston, TX?
This song is known as the Black National Anthem.
What is "Lift Every Voice and Sing."