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100
The year was the Emancipation Proclamation first issued.
What year was 1862
100
The day that union soldiers landed in Galveston, TX with news that the war had ended and to tell the slaves they were now free. It is now called “Juneteenth”?
When is June 19, 1865
100

The president issued the Emancipation Proclamation

Who is Abraham Lincoln

100

The percentage of soldiers who fought in the Union Army that were African American

What is 10%

100

The combination of the nineteenth day of the sixth month

What is Juneteenth?

200
The date did the 13th amendment pass in Congress officially abolishing the institution of slavery.
What day was January 31, 1965
200
The length of time after the Emancipation Proclamation that it took for slaves in Texas to learn that they had been freed
How long is two and half years
200

The General surrendered in April of 1865 at Appomattox Court House

Who is Robert E. Lee

200

The earliest record of protest against slavery was by this group of people

Who are the Quakers

200

The color of beverage used in Juneteenth celebrations

What is 'red'?

300
The Emancipation Proclamation applied to these type of states.
What are Confederate States
300
The date Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas
When is January 1, 1980
300

He read the “General Order Number 3” to the people of Texas that informed them that the war was over and that all slaves were free

Who is Major General Gordon Granger

300

Plantation owners used this practice of 'loaning their land out' to former slaves and families to cut cost after the slaves were freed

What is sharecropping?

300

Jazz, an African-American musical form born out of the blues, ragtime, and marching bands, was originated in this state in the 19th Century

Where is Louisiana

400

The political party in 1865 did not favor the anti-slave movement, Emancipation, and/or the Civil War

What is the Democratic Party

400
The city in Texas where a local Juneteenth organization bought Booker T. Washington Park, the site of Juneteenth celebrations since 1898
Where is Mexia, TX
400

At the close of the Civil War, this name given by the Plains Native Americans to African American soldiers, in both the cavalry and the infantry that served on the western frontier

Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?

400

Onesimus, an African born in the late seventh century before landing in Boston, introduced America to the common medical procedure

What is Inoculation

400

The '44th' President of the United States

Who is Barack Obama

500

The Union general who is credited with reading the Emancipation Proclamation to the congregation of Second African Baptist Church in Savannah Ga

Who is William Sherman?

500
**DAILY DOUBLE** **DAILY DOUBLE** The six flags that have flown over the state of Texas
What are Spain (1519-1821), France (1685-1690), Mexico (1821-1836), Republic of Texas (1836-1845), United States (1845 to 1861 and 1965 to present), Confederate States of America (1861-1865)
500

** Daily Double** **Daily Double** In 1996, this Muhammad Ali was originally named after his father, who was named after this the 19th-century abolitionist and politician

Who is Cassius Marcellus Clay?

500

An African-American man that escaped to the West during the Civil War and became a Deputy U.S. Marshal. He was known to be a master of disguise, traveled with a Native American friend, and rode a silver horse was believed to inspire a popular television show

What is the Lone Ranger

500

After many hurricanes develop, they typically follow this 'path'

What are the Slave Trade Routes?

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