Key Figures
Juneteenth Facts
Food and Fun Facts
Texas and The Confederate South
Austin Juneteenth Activities- 2016
100
Name of the U.S. president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and started the process to end slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Name of the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
100
Name a popular traditional celebration that involves food served during Juneteenth.
What is Barbecue?
100
This war lead to the emancipation of slavery in the United States.
What is the Civil War?
100
This Austin park marks the end of the Juneteenth Parade.
What is Rosewood Park?
200
Name the Texas General who surrendered in Virginia two months before Texas enforced the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
Name the date that the President's Emancipation Proclamation became official.
What is January 1, 1863?
200
The date that Juneteenth is normally celebrated?
What is June 19th?
200
The amount of time it took for Texas to free the enslaved after the President declared the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is two years?
200
This game is played in the Eastview campus lobby every year for ACC's Juneteenth celebration.
What is Dominoes?
300
The name of the Union General who led the soldiers into Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Major General Gordon Granger?
300
The constitutional amendment that formally outlawed slavery.
What is The 13th amendment?
300
What were newly emancipated slaves called?
What is a Freedman?
300
Name the Texas town that the Union soldiers rode in and announced that the enslaved were now free.
What is Galveston, Texas?
300
This Central-Texas city hosts the annual "Juneteenth Rhythm and Ribs Festival."
What is the City of Round Rock?
400
Who was the president of the Emancipation Association?
Thomas J. White
400
As of 2016, this number of U.S. states recognize Juneteenth as a official state holiday.
What is 42 states?
400
This was the first year that the word "Juneteenth" was created and used.
What is 1903?
400
This southern state was the first state to recognize Juneteenth as a official state holiday.
What is Texas?
400
Name a park where Juneteenth celebrations occurred.
Eastwoods Park, Wheeler’s Grove, Emancipation Park, or Rosewood Park .
500
Name of the Director of the African American Cultural Center at Austin Community College.
Who is Roland Hayes?
500
This year was the first year that Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas?
What is 1980?
500
These two U.S. cities currently host the largest Juneteenth celebrations.
What is Milwaukee and Minneapolis?
500
The definition of a Northerner in the post-civil war who moved South to take advantage of the unstable social, financial and political climate.
What is a Carpetbagger?
500
What was the name of the association responsible for organizing Juneteenth?
What is Emancipation Association.
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