Sports Civil Rights Movement Miscellaneous A.P. U.S. History Slavery
100
Who was the first African American To Play in the MLB (Major League Baseball)?
Hint: He wore number 42
Jackie Robinson
100
What Civil Rights Activist gave his infamous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963?
Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)
100
Who was the first African American to become President of The United States of America?
Barrack Obama
100
This man led an attack on Harper's Ferry, VA in 1859.
John Brown
100
Which female African American Underground Railroad conductor stated, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger"?
Harriet Tubman
200
Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Tiger Woods
200
What does The NCAAP stand for?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
200
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote in 1870?
15th Amendment
200
This sate was thought to have been bleeding over the issue of slavery.
Kansas (Bleeding)
200
This was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade?
Hint: Three Words
The Middle Passage
300
This African American boxer is considered one of the greatest of all time?
Hint: He once stated: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
300
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
300
In what state was the first abolitionist organization formed?
Pennsylvania
300
This is a region of the Southern United States. The term originally described the prairies and dark fertile soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi.
Black Belt
300
What President took office following Abraham Lincoln's Assassination?
Andrew Johnson
400
Who was the African American Sprinter/Jumper who took four golds at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany?
Hint: He competed for the United States
Jesse Owens
400
What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe published in 1852 stirred up anti-slavery sentiment in the United States before the Civil War?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
Which famous Supreme Court case in 1896 declared that segregation was legal and constitutional, as long as segregated facilities were "separate but equal?"
Plessy vs. Ferguson
400
This man invented the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
400
What year was the first African brought over to the new world?
1619
500
Who was the first African American player selected in the 2018 NFL Draft?
Saquon Barkley
500
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
500
Supreme Court decision in 1954 that overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision (1896); ruling that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were inherently unequal and thus unconstitutional.
Brown Vs. Board of Education (1954)
500
This slave led a revolt against the French rulers in Haiti in 1799; the French were never able to regain control of the colony.
Touissaint L'Ouverture
500
What river did a slave revolt in South Carolina in 1739 break out near?
Stono River (SC)






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