Black History Historic Events Jeopardy Template

The Beginning	The Transition	That's Law	Let's get Right, Civilly	What Do You Know?
100 The first set of African American Slaves were brought to the United States in what year? What is 1619	100 What conflict erupted in the Spring of 1861 which caused 11 states to succeed from the Union? What is The Civil War	100 What is the famous amendment that was created due to the Emancipation Proclamation? What is the 13th Amendment	100 What is cited as one of the primary factors in the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement? What is the murder of Emmet Till	100 What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s? What is the Harlem Renaissance
200 What is the system that was used to transport and sell slaves and how many years did this system run? What is the Atlantic Slave Trade and 400 years	200 What is amount of Black men that served in the Continental Army and the Revolutionary War? What is 5,000	200 What is the amendment that defined citizenship for everyone in 1868? What is the 14th Amendment?	200 What is the name of the movement Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many other were known for being involved in what famous protest which was an indictment of over 90 people? What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott	200 What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated? What is Brown VS. Board of Education
300 What is the system that was utilized in the 1800's that freed over 75,000 slaves? What is the Underground Railroad	300 What is the name of the first state that abolished slavery? What is Vermont	300 What is the name of the set of laws that stated "separate but equal" was legal by the Supreme Court? What is Jim Crow Laws	300 What major event took place in Alabama in 1965? What did the event lead too? What is the Selma Marches and The Voting Act	300 What is Plessy Vs. Ferguson? What is a case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
400 What is the name of the act that congress passed requiring slaves to be returned to their owners, in what year was it passed? What is the Fugitive Slave Act and 1850	400 What was created in effort to keep balance between slave states and free states? What is the Missouri Compromise	400 What two pieces of legislation were created in support of the voting rights for African Americans? What is the 15th amendment and the Voting Rights Act	400 What is the name of the political party founded by college students? Who were the founders What is the Black Panther Party & Who is Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton	400 What is The Little Rock Nine? What is a group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957
500 What is historical event is Nat Turner Known for that took place in 1831? What is Nat Turners Rebellion	500 What is the Reconstruction Era? What is the historic period in which the United States grappled with the question of how to integrate millions of newly freed African Americans into social, political, and labor systems	500 What is the name of the Act that prohibited all forms of discrimination? What is the Civil Rights Act	500 In 1905 W.E.B Duboi founded the Niagara Movement, which lead to the finding of what current day national organization? What is the NAACP	500 What is the name of the famous event that took place in Detroit Michigan in 1967? What is the Detroit Riot

Black History: Historic Events

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