Multiple Choice Questions

Which of the following documents included the “Three-Fifths Compromise,” which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?
  • Missouri Compromise
  • 13th Amendment
  • Bill of Rights
  • US Constitution
Which African-American man led a bloody rebellion in response to slavery in Virginia in 1831?
  • Daniel Shay
  • Nathaniel Bacon
  • John Brown
  • Nat Turner
Which of the following included a new Fugitive Slave Law that required federal marshals to actively look for and arrest escaped slaves?
  • 13th Amendment
  • Missouri Compromise
  • US Constitution
  • Compromise of 1850
Which woman was an escaped slave who worked as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, and served as an armed scout and spy for the US Army during the Civil War?
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Belle Boyd
Which African-American woman, after escaping slavery, became an advocate for women’s rights and gave the “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech?
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Harriet Tubman
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories?
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
Which of the following documents abolished slavery throughout the entire United States?
  • Missouri Compromise
  • 13th Amendment
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • 19th Amendment
Which man escaped slavery and became a national leader in the abolitionist movement, and was the first African American to run for vice-president?
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Booker T. Washington
  • George Washington Carver
Which man strove to improve educational opportunities for African Americans and founded the Tuskegee Institute?
  • Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • George Washington Carver
  • Marcus Garvey
Which African-American journalist published an exposé titled “Southern Horror,” which documented lynchings in the late 1800s?
  • Billie Holiday
  • Maya Angelou
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Josephine Baker
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions ruled that “separate but equal” public facilities were constitutional?
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
Which person was a botanist who taught poor farmers about alternative crops to cotton, which included peanuts and sweet potatoes?
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • George Washington Carver
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Booker T. Washington
Which African-American composer, known as the “King of Ragtime Writers,” produced hits including “The Entertainer” and “Maple Leaf Rag,” and also taught future ragtime composers?
  • Blind Willie McTell
  • W.C. Handy
  • Scott Joplin
  • Jelly Roll Morton
Which author and activist wrote
  • Malcolm X
  • Medgar Evers
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Thurgood Marshall
Which organization was founded in 1909 to promote racial equality, and eliminate racial hatred?
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • The Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Which famous musician, known as the “Father of the Blues,” composed “Beale Street Blues?”
  • Duke Ellington
  • W.C. Handy
  • Blind Willie McTell
  • Scott Joplin
Which writer and shipping entrepreneur advocated for the return of African Americans to Africa?
  • Huey Newton
  • Medgar Evers
  • Marcus Garvey
  • Booker T. Washington
Which woman was a dancer, singer, and actress who became an international star and worked as an honorable correspondent for France during World War II?
  • Billie Holiday
  • Aretha Franklin
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Josephine Baker
Which writer and poet, well-known for his poem,
  • Paul Dunbar
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Langston Hughes
  • Emmett Till
Which African-American man won four gold medals at the 1936 summer Olympics?
  • Jesse Owens
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Hank Aaron
  • Satchel Paige
Which African-American woman, whose works include,
  • Josephine Baker
  • Billie Holiday
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Aretha Franklin
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball and thereby end racial segregation in the professional league?
  • Hank Aaron
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Satchel Paige
  • Jesse Owens
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions overturned the “separate but equal” precedent for public schools?
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
Which African American refused to give up a seat in the colored section to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, which sparked a boycott and a continued effort to achieve desegregation?
  • Rosa Parks
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Maya Angelou
For what accomplishment are the Greensboro Four known?
  • They were lynched because they refused to give up their seats on a bus.
  • They launched a sit-in as a means of attaining racial integration.
  • They were a best-selling musical group in the 1960's.
  • They were jailed for registering blacks to vote in the South.
Which African-American civil rights leader was assassinated in Mississippi in 1963 because of his attempts to eliminate segregation and register black voters?
  • Emmett Till
  • Malcolm X
  • Bayard Rustin
  • Medgar Evers
Which African-American civil rights leader advocated nonviolence and wrote
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • John Lewis
  • Rosa Parks
  • Malcolm X
Which African-American civil rights leader advocated black self-defense and rejected racial integration?
  • Medgar Evers
  • Malcolm X
  • John Lewis
  • Jesse Jackson
Which civil rights leader was the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped promote the idea of Black Power?
  • Malcolm X
  • Stokely Carmichael
  • Louis Farrakhan
  • James Meredith
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriages were unconstitutional?
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
Which African-American activist helped found the Black Panther Party?
  • Huey Newton
  • Jesse Jackson
  • Toni Morrison
  • Louis Farrakhan
Who was the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court?
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Johnnie Cochran
  • Colin Powell
  • Clarence Thomas
Which African-American woman was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and wrote
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Maya Angelou
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Toni Morrison
Which African-American woman, whose works include
  • Maya Angelou
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Toni Morrison
Which African-American leader was active in the Civil Rights Movement and later made two attempts to become president of the US in the 1980s?
  • Tim Scott
  • Jesse Jackson
  • Colin Powell
  • Louis Farrakhan
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