African - American History Quiz

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What were Jim Crow laws?

These laws legalized slavery

These laws instituted segregation in the South legalizing racially segregated facilities

These laws had to do with fugitive slaves and their return to slaveholders

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

A document declaring that the Southern states were seceding from the United States

A document declaring that all states west of the Mississippi would be free states as opposed to slave states

An executive order by President Lincoln declaring that all slaves were free

The Empire of ___________ was the last of the three great ancient kingdoms of West Africa.

Mali

Songhay

Ghana

Jazz singers Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald were discovered at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

True

False

She witnessed the East St. Louis riots in 1917 and immigrated to France just six years later. She was a singer, dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the French resistance during

Bessie Smith

Josephine Baker

William Wells Brown

What former slave published the newspaper, "The North Star"?

David Walker

William Wells Brown

Frederick Douglass

In 1787, the British established _________ as a free colony.

Nova Scotia

Jamaica

Upper Canada

Northerners believed in ________ or the concept that work should be based on wages.

Free labor

Anti-slavery

activist Repartriation

Rich soil from the ___________ was deposited along the banks of the Nile River during the yearly floods.

North Africa

Interior of Africa

West Africa

In ancient times, many of the greatest West African civilizations developed along the ________________ River.

Amazon

Congo

Niger

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