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This African American woman billionaire is a talk show host, media executive, actress, and has her own television network.
a. Folorunsho Alakija
b. Oprah Gail Winfrey
c. Isabel doe Santos
d. Beyoncé Knowles
The _______were the nomadic inhabitants of the North African continent.
a. British
b. France
c. Italy
d. Moors
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
It was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedmens-bureau
Give Me Liberty! 4th Edition Volume 1 by Eric Foner page 447
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/freedmen’s-bureau/
Where did Phillies Wheatley get her name?
a. Her Parents
b. The Task masters
c. From Landmark
d. From a Ship
d. From a Ship
Give Me Liberty! 4th Edition Volume 1 by Eric Foner page 185
When did blacks start voting Democratic?
a. During Abraham Lincoln (1865) and Ulysses S. Grant (1869)
b. During president Franklin D. Roosevelt (1924) and President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964 & 1965)
c. During President Ronald Reagan (1984) and George (1989)
d. During president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration (Around 1924), and another in president Lyndon B. Johnson’s (1964 & 1965).
https://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/blacks-and-the-democratic-party/
What African American is the first former player to become the majority owner of an NBA franchise?
a. Michael Jeffrey Jordan
b. Charles Barkley
c. Shaquille O'Neal
d. Julius Erving
The Spanish Moors were eventually overpowered in the 15th century, but they left behind the following:
a. legacy of rich culture
b. architecture
c. Moors introduced paper to Europe and Arabic numerals,
d. advanced subjects, like physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and geography were taught at universities.
e. all answer a-d
f. Nothing
e. all answer a-d
Who was the founder and head of the Freedman’s Bureau?
a. General Robert E. Lee
b. General Oliver Howard
c. President Ulysses S. Grant
d. President Andrew Johnson
b. General Oliver Howard
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedmens-bureau
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and the third woman in America to ______.
a. Publish a book
b. Got her patent
c. Invented the hidden away bed
d. discover silk
a. Publish a book
When did Dixiecrats switch to Republicans?
They left the Democrat party because President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 so now there are the Republican.
Who was the first African American male on television host to play a role as a woman on stage?
a. Tyler Perry
b. Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence
c. Shawn and Marlon Wayans
d. Clerow “Flip” Wilson Jr
d. Clerow “Flip” Wilson Jr
________ who ruled Spain for 800 years, introduced new scientific techniques to Europe, such as an astrolabe, a device for measuring the position of the stars and planets.
a. The British
b. The Germany
c. The Moors
d. Spain
Who established a historically all black college Howard University in 1867?
a. Oliver Otis Howard
b. Brooke T. Washington
c. Mary McCloud Bethune
d. Mrs. Bathsheba Benedict and the Baptist Home Mission
Phillies Wheatley was invited to which president house to read her poem.
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. George Washington
c. Andrew Johnson
d. Harry Truman
Who led the fight against the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction while in office?
a. President Abraham Lincoln
b. President Andrew Johnson
c. President Ulysses S. Grant
d. President George Washington
c. President Ulysses S. Grant
Give Me Liberty! 4th Edition Volume 1 by Eric Foner page 468
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-kkk/
Who was the African American businessman that founded Black Entertainment Television (BET), and was the principal owner of Charlotte Bobcats, and the first billionaire?
a. Michael Jordan
b. Robert Louis Johnson
c. Oprah Gail Winfrey
d. Robert Frederick Smith
b. Robert Louis Johnson
The Moors introduced many new crops including the orange, lemon, peach, apricot, fig, sugar cane, dates, ginger and pomegranate as well as saffron, sugar cane, cotton, silk and rice which remain some of Spain’s main products today. True or False
Mary Peake, a free Negro, was asked to teach, even though an 1831 Virginia law forbid the education of slaves, free blacks and mulattos. She held her first class, which consisted of about twenty students, on September 17, 1861. Where was the class held?
a. In the woods
b. near the rivers
c. under a oak tree
d. under the moonlight
Phillies Wheatley writing was so exquisite that ______ did not believe that a slave was the author
a. Bostonians
b. Mary Wheatley,
c. Her parent
d. John and Susanna Wheatley
When did the Hockey League form?
a. Pro Hockey League in 1904
b. The Colored Hockey League in 1894
c. The National Hockey League in 1917
d. National Hockey Association and Pacific Coast League in 1914
b. The Colored Hockey League of Maritimes in Nova 1894
https://blackamericaweb.com/2013/10/04/little-known-black-history-fact-the-colored-hockey-league/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/national-hockey-league-nhl-opens-its-first-season
Motown records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by _______ as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959.
a. Marvin Gaye
b. Berry Gordy Jr. (III)
c. Chuck Berry
d. Smokey Robinson
b. Berry Gordy Jr (III)
Education was universal in Moorish Spain, available to all, while in Christian Europe 99% of the population were illiterate, and even kings could neither read nor write. At that time, Europe had only two universities, the Moors had _________ great universities! These were located in Almeria, Cordova, Granada, Juen, Malaga, Seville, and Toledo.
a. 4
b. 20
c. 17
d. 18
Freedmen’s Bureau also was instrumental in building thousands of schools in the south for blacks. Which university was not part?
a. Howard University
b. Hampton University
c. Fisk University
d. Benedict College
If Phillies Wheatley was a slave during 1773, where did she get her poems publish?
a. Boston, Massachusetts
b. London England
c. A board the ship called the “Phillies”
d. At her master home
b. London, England
____________ (1818-1891) is an American Hero. Born enslaved, She became one of the first prominent citizens and landowners in Los Angeles in the 1850s and 1860s. She also founded the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles in 1872.
a. Robert Marion Smith
b Elizabeth Flake Rowan
c. Bridget Biddy Mason
d. Charles H. Rowan