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100

What historical event created the second independent nation in the Americas and the first Black republic free of slavery?

What is Haitian Revolution?

100

What 1839 event involved Mende captives taking over a slave ship, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case?

What is Amistad Revolt?

100

What was the name of the first sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States?

What is Fort Mose?

100

Who was known as the "Moses" of her people for leading approximately 80 enslaved people to freedom?

What is Harriet Tubman?

100

What Freedom Day commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Texas learned they were free?

What is Juneteenth?

200

What African cultural practice in Brazil combines martial arts, music, and call-and-response singing?

What is Capoeira?

200

What was the name of the covert network helping enslaved people escape to freedom?

What is Underground Railroad?

200

What institutions did free Black people create to support their communities in Northern cities?

What is Mutual-aid societies?

200

Who was the first African to arrive in North America during a Spanish expedition in 1513?

What is Juan Garrido?

200

What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution permanently abolished slavery?

What is Thirteenth Amendment?

300

What linguistic creation combined West African and European languages in the Carolinas

What is Gullah?

300

What 1857 Supreme Court case ruled African Americans could never be U.S. citizens?

What is Dred Scott?

300

What Article of the 1805 Haitian Constitution declared all citizens of Haiti to be Black?

What is Article 14?

300

Who was the first African American to publish a book of poetry?

What is Phillis Wheatley?

300

What was the first official African American regiment of the Union Army during the Civil War?

What is 54th Massachusetts?

400

What geographical feature is associated with maroon communities in Virginia and North Carolina

What is Great Dismal Swamp?

400

What was the name of the journey across the Atlantic Ocean for enslaved Africans?

What is Middle Passage?

400

What term describes a political philosophy that promoted Black unity, pride, and self-determination?

What is Black nationalism?

400

Which Black captain led maroons in Jamaica during wars against the English in the 18th century?

What is Queen Nanny?

400

What significant legal document was created in 1740 as a direct response to the Stono Rebellion?

What is South Carolina Slave Code?

500

Which African region sent the highest percentage of enslaved people to North America? (23.6%)

What is Senegambia?

500

What legal doctrine determined an enslaved child's status based on the mother's status?

What is Partus sequitur ventrem?

500

What strategy did advocates of moral suasion oppose, embracing instead the potential of slave revolts and violence if necessary?

What is Radical resistance?

500

Who was the enslaved potter in South Carolina who inscribed short poems on the jars he created despite bans on literacy?

What is David Drake?

500

What name did Frederick Douglass use for spirituals in his discussions of enslaved people's musical traditions?

What is Sorrow songs?