This day in June Juneteenth is celebrated
A. 16th
B. 17th
C. 18th
D. 19th
This amendment provides citizenship, due process and equal protection to newly free Black Americans.
A. 13th Amendment
B. 16th Amendment
C. 19th Amendment
D. 14th Amendment
What is the 14th Amendment?
Red White and Blue on the flag represents that the people freed in Texas were this.
A. Enslaved citizens
B. Texas citizens
C. Galveston citizens
D. American citizens
What is American citizens?
There were over this many institutions for higher education that were founded by African Americans between 1861 and 1900.
A. 40
B. 70
C. 90
D. 100
What is over 90?
In 1865, this city learned from the Union Army that enslaved people were free.
A. Charlotte, North Carolina
B. Galveston, Texas
C. Atlanta, Georgia
D. New Orleans, Louisana
What is Galveston, Texas?
True or False: the emancipation proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebelling states on, there were still states that enslaved people were not free that hadn’t seceded from the Union such as Maryland.
A. True
B. False
What is true?
Black in the flag represents this
A. Struggle and sacrifice
B. Black people
C. Minimal resources that they hd
D. Natural wealth of the land of Africa
What is black people?
This provides information for families, historians, and genealogists to search for their ancestors and for scholars to research a variety of topics related to slavery and Reconstruction in their records.
A. Federal Bureau of Investigation
B. Office of Civil Rights
C. Census Bureau
D. Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal
What is Freedmen's Bureau Search Portal?
On September 22, 1863, this president signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
A. James Buchanan
B. Ulysses S. Grant
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment provides the opportunity to vote and hold office for Black Americans
A. 14th Amendment
B. 15th Amendment
C. 16th Amendment
D. 19th Amendment
What is the 15th Amendment?
Red in the flag represents this
A. natural wealth of the land of Africa
B. minimal resources that they had
C. struggle and sacrifice
D. Freedom
What is struggle and sacrifice?
Created October 1913, this event serves the purpose of racial uplift and to celebrate Black progress over the fifty years between 1863 and 1913. It involved not just traditional entertainment, but also speeches, pageants, and poetry recitations, as well as discussions about contemporary events and lynching.
A. 15th Amendment Ratification Party
B. Emancipation Proclamation Exposition
C. Slavery Remembrance Day
D. International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation Exposition?
A. 1862
B. 1863
C. 1864
D. 1865
What is 1863?
The Juneteenth Flag by National Juneteenth Observance Foundation has what color combinations?
A. Red White Blue
B. Black Green Red
C. Black Yellow Purple
D. Pink Purple Green
Yellow (unofficial color)represents this.
A. Struggle and sacrifice
B. Natural wealth of the land of Africa
C. Minimal resources that they had
D. Freedom
What is minimal resources that they had?
Juneteenth was established in this year as a federal holiday, opening it to symbolic and global interpretation and providing a better understanding of the evolution of our nation and its people.
A. 2015
B. 2018
C. 2021
D. 2023
What is 2021?
To truly end slavery throughout the nation it took the creation and implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation, the end of the Civil War, and this amendment which ended slavery.
A. 5th Amendment
B. 12th Amendment
C. 13th Amendment
D. 19th Amendment
What is the 13th Amendment?
The African Liberation Flag (created 1920) has these colors which represent telling the story of the unity among people from Africa.
A. Red White Blue
B. Black Yellow Gray
C. Black Green Red
D. Red Pink Purple
What is Black Green and Red?
Green in the flag represents this
A. struggle and sacrifice
B. minimal resources they had
C. natural wealth of the land of Africa
D. pursuit of happiness
What is natural wealth of the land of Africa?
The Emancipation Proclamation Exposition was Created October 1913 by this man and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A. W.E.B. Du Bois
B. Fredrick Douglas
C. Henry Highland Garnet
D. Martin R. Delany