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100

Name of an ancient West African kingdom.

What is Ghana, Mali, or Songhai?

100

Name of Frederick Douglass’ anti-slavery newspaper.

What is the North Star?

100

Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution.

What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

100

Two obstacles constructed to prevent Blacks from voting.

What are poll taxes, tests, intimidation, and violence?

100

She threatened to call police on an African American bird watcher.

Who is Amy Cooper?

200

Around 200,000 different animal and plant species can be found in this country.

What is Madagascar?

200

Geometric shape used to describe the cross Atlantic slave trade.

What is triangular?

200

Laws passed in southern states that restricted the rights of freedmen.

What are the Black Codes?

200

Name 4 non-violent Civil Rights’ organizations.

SCLC, SNCC, NAACP, YWCA, CORE, MFDP

200

The democratic candidate for president of the USA.

Who is Joe Biden?

300

The 1881 – 1914 colonization of African for its resources is referred to in history as this period.

What is the  Scramble for Africa?

300

Underground Railroad conductor who wrote The Promised Land.

Who is John Parker?

300

System used by landowners to keep freedmen in a vicious cycle unable to pay tenant bills.

What is sharecropping?

300

Name 3 of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. (Bonus:  All 6)

Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young

300

American champion of civil rights who died in July 2020.

Who is John Lewis?

400

According to Chinua Achebe’s description of African culture, Things Fall this way.

What is Apart?

400

Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Who are slaves living in Sothern states in rebellion?

400

A system allowing whites to buy Black prisoners to work for free.

What is Convict Leasing?

400

The city that housed “Black Wall Street” became infamous for this.

What is the Tulsa Massacre?

400

USA’ s leading expert on infectious disease control; no longer in good standing with Trump.

Who is Dr. Anthony Fauci?

500

The goal of the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference.

What is to establish rules for the division of Africa among European nations?

500

WS was best known for his self-published book The Underground Railroad (1872) where he documented the stories of escaped slaves.

Who is William Still?

500

The first Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed shortly after the passage of this Amendment.

What is the 13th Amendment passed in 1866?

500

Two advocates of Black Nationalism.

Who are Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael?

500

Month, day, and year of the next USA presidential election.

What is Nov 3, 2020?