Mr. Reynolds Black History Month PGH Addition Review

Question 1

A reason why Reconstruction didn't work was because the US couldn't agree with the idea of African Americans being free.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

One of the first and the most successful African American regiments in the Civil War were the...

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Massachusetts 54th Regiment

Question 3

Civil Rights Activist and First African American Female Cartoonist.

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Jackie Ormes

Question 4

Who was the 1936 800 yrds Olympic Champion as well as a WWII and Korean War Veteran?

Accepted Answer

John Woodruff

Question 5

What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?

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Create "separate but equal" conditions for whites and blacks

Question 6

After public school segregation was made unconstitutional, black activism was still needed to desegregate ALL of society

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Civil Rights Lawyer, President of the Pittsburgh Branch of the NAACP.

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Byrd R Brown

Question 8

Who was the first African American to be drafted and play in the NBA. He was also a WWII Veteran?

Accepted Answer

Chuck Cooper

Question 9

BONUS KNOWLEDGE - Ruby Bridges is important because she was

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the first African American to attend an all-white school.

Question 10

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

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Limit the freedoms of African Americans after slavery was abolished

Question 11

Who was Emmett Till?

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A 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched.

Question 12

In the last 20 or 25 years, really large numbers of blacks moved to the South for education and job opportunities.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Who was the historian that pioneered African American studies and came up with the idea of Black History Month?

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Carter G Woodson

Question 14

Which female fought for Civil Rights for African Americans in 1900s to 1960s?

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Daisy E Lampkin

Question 15

Who was a journalist for the PGH Courier?

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Frank E Bolden

Question 16

What US President was the first to endorse Black History Month?

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Gerald Ford

Question 17

R. B. Hayes “wins” disputed election and must agree to withdraw fed. troops from the South. This was called...

Accepted Answer

the Compromise of 1877

Question 18

Who was publisher and editor who developed the PGH Courier into one of the leading black newspapers in the country?

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Robert L Vann

Question 19

Jackie Robinson was the first African American to

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play major league baseball.

Question 20

The Pittsburgh Crawfords were the first Major League franchise to field an all-Black and Latino starting lineup.

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False

Question 21

The Homestead Grays were a Negro League Baseball team that...

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... has 12 players in the National Baseball Hall of Fame

Question 22

Who was one of the first African American journalist to work on a mainstream white-owned newspaper?

Accepted Answer

Ted Poston

Question 23

Civil Rights Activist who fought for equality among African American Union Workers in Pittsburgh.

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Nate Smith

Question 24

Growing crops for a landowner in exchange for a small portion of the crop, for little to no money is "Sharecropping."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Who was the first African American to win Heisman Trophy and is a College Football Hall of Famer?

Accepted Answer

Ernie Davis

Question 26

Was an award-winning painter and jazz singer.

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Elizabeth "Betty" Asche Douglas

Question 27

What is the 13th Amendment?

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freed the slaves

Question 28

Who was a photographer for the PGH Courier nicknamed "One Shot?"

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Charles “Teenie” Harris

Question 29

The events of the Civil Rights movement are models used today for other groups feeling their rights have been violated.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement where white Americans fought against the artistic achievements of blacks.

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False

Question 31

Who was a Tuskegee Airman and Civil Rights Lawyer?

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Wendell Freeland

Question 32

Why was “Negro History Week” chosen to fall during the second week in February?

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Birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Question 33

In what year were the first African slaves brought to America?

Accepted Answer

1619

Question 34

Over 100 of the Tuskegee Airmen were from Western PA, more than any other place/region in the US.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

Who was a Hall of Fame Baseball Player in the Negro Leagues?

Accepted Answer

Josh Gibson

Question 36

The formation of the NAACP changed after the Red Summer with more white Americans emerging as leaders of the NAACP.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

The Reconstruction era was the result of what major event in US History?

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The Civil War

Question 38

The KKK was created by former Union soldiers as a way to deny the rights of and terrorize African Americans.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 39

Was a member of PGH Branch of NAACP and fought for equality in job hiring of many companies throughout Western PA.

Accepted Answer

Alma Speed Fox

Question 40

Who was owner of Pittsburgh Crawfords and built Greenlee Field?

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Gus Greenlee

Question 41

Who opened a school of music in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh?

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Mary L Cardwell Dawson

Question 42

What is the 15th Amendment?

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granted ALL male citizens the right to vote.

Question 43

Who was a Pitt Football Player and the first African American to play in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, LA?

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Bobby Grier

Question 44

What is the 14th Amendment?

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granted ALL people born or naturalized in the US as citizens,

Question 45

The political group that protected the rights of freed slaves and helped them gain economic and political power.

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“Radical Republicans”

Question 46

Writer and Ivy League Professor. 2nd African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.

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John Edgar Wideman

Question 47

The "Reconstruction" name was partly due to the US trying to change the mindset of a nation that just fought itself.

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True

Mr. Reynolds Black History Month PGH Addition Review

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Mr. Reynolds Black History Month PGH Addition Review

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