What Year was that?
What year was slavery deemed illegal North and West of the Ohio River?
1787
In 1804, The Ohio Legislation passed these discriminatory laws that restricted all aspects of daily life for Black residents in the state. What were they called?
Black Laws or Black Codes
Most Cincinnati whites came from what part of the United States?
"Upriver," new England through Pennsylvania
In what year did the Civil War start?
1861
Kings Records is the studio that launched whose entertainment career?
Black Laws were passed during these years by the Ohio Legislature to restrict black opportunities
1803 & 1807
To stop Black people from moving to the Ohio, the all-white state legislature approved what act in 1804?
“An Act to Regulate Black and Mulatto Persons”
What language was spoken amongst the White Cincinnatians?
German & English
In what year did the Civil War end?
1865
Who kickstarted his career with James Brown’s backup band (J.B.’s) from 1969-1971 and later joining George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic?
Bootsy Collins
In the 1830's, what White Cincinnati movement helped slaves flee to freedom using the Underground Railroad?
Abolitionists
$500
What nationality were the immigrants from the "Rhine" river valley?
French
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was a famous poet, writer, activist, and educator who grew up in the Wyoming and Lincoln Heights communities.
Nikki Giovanni
In what years did the Cincinnati Riots occur?
1836 & 1841
White employers who hired unregistered Black workers faced fines of ___ per employee.
$50
Name a country where some Cincinnatians immigrated from
Ireland
Why was Cincy a hotbed for the Abolitionist Movement?
It was due to its location on the Ohio River and its Northern and Western borders
He was known as "The Black Edison"
Granville T. Woods
In what year did the black population in Cincinnati rise dramatically causing white mobs to attack black homes in Bucktown, forcing over one thousand African Americans to leave Cincinnati for settlement in northern Ohio or Canada?
1829
Anyone who harbored alleged “fugitives” or hindered their capture could be fined from $___to $___
$10 to $50.
Where did the Black residents who were both free and southern escaped slaves settle?
Along the Ohio River
Why did Cincinnati have a strong Southern sentiment favoring slavery?
Because of its dependence on trade with Kentucky
A graduate of Walnut Hills and the University of Michigan, this he became the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal for an individual performance at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, France.
William DeHart Hubbard