1.  Why do students and teachers of American History study African-American History during February and Woman's History during March each year?
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Prior to the 1960s, most historians were relatively well off white men, limiting perspectives.
Many of the sources historians use were created by wealthy white men, limiting resources.
Historical bias has left the stories of women and minorities underrepresented in historical narratives.
African American History and Woman's History are American History.
All of the above reasons.
2.  Which historical period in American history was influenced by African-Americans?
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The Era of the American Revolution and the War for Independence
The United States Civil War
The Reconstruction Period
The Civil Rights Movement
All of the above and every part of American History has been influenced by African-Americans.
3.  Identify the African-American man who was killed during the Boston Massacre, on March 5th,  1770:
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Peter Salem
Crispus Attucks
Richard Allen
Samuel Maverick
Patrick Carr
4.  Why did Carter Woodson select February as the proper time for "Negro History Week" back in 1926 when he initiated the project?
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Like Chris Rock said, "February is the shortest month."
Like Chris Rock said, "And, February is the coldest month - in case you wanted to have a parade!"
Both Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809) and Frederick Douglass (Feb. 14, 1818) were born in February.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in February.
5.  What month is Woman's History Month?
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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
6. Who was the enslaved woman who DNA evidence suggests Thomas Jefferson - author of The Declaration of Independence and President of the United States - had a long affair with, producing at least four children?
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Sally Hemings
Phyllis Wheatley
Maria Cosway
Peggy Eaton
Monica Lewinsky
7. Who was the only African-American included in the Corps of Discovery, the enslaved servant of William Clark?
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Jemmy
Denmark Vesey
Gabriel
York
John Punch
8.  Which author encouraged enslaved people to rise up and murder their masters, writing that they were justified in their actions because a state of slavery was a state of war?
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Nat Turner
Denmark Vesey
David Walker
Gabriel Prosser
9. Where did Nat Turner's rebellion take place in the autumn of 1831, resulting in the murder of dozens of Virginia planters?
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Princess Anne County, Virginia
Portsmouth, Virginia
Southampton County, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
10. Who was the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church?
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Peter Salem
Crispus Attucks
Richard Allen
Francis Asbury
Jonathan Edwards
11.  What law did President Franklin Pierce invoke in 1854 when he sent federal agents to insure that Anthony Burns was returned to his owner in Virginia?  
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The International Slave Trade
The Emancipation Proclamation
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Missouri Compromise
12. Among other things, this runaway slave was the editor of an abolitionist newspaper called The North Star, the first African-American ambassador, and an advocate for woman's suffrage:
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William Lloyd Garrison
Susan B. Anthony
Frederick Douglass
William Seward
Elijah Lovejoy
13.  In this Supreme Court decision of 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that slaves and free African-Americans had no rights that a white man was bound to respect and declared that slave owners could take their property anywhere they chose in the United States - even the Western territories and Northern states:
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Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS
Plessy V. Ferguson
McCullough V. Maryland
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Loving V. Virginia
14.  Who was the former slave from South Carolina who escaped servitude by stealing the CSS Planter and delivering it to the Union?  HINT: He went on to become a delegate in the US House of Representatives.  
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Robert Smalls
Blanche K. Bruce
Hiram Revels
Edward Brooke
John Mercer Langston
15.  This man was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.  He proposed "gradualism" claiming that African-Americans must make strides in education and gain vocational skills before they would be granted equal rights under the law:
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W.E.B. DuBois
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
Carter Woodson
Marcus Garvey
16.  He was the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and demanded immediate political equality, social justice, and economic opportunity for African-Americans.  Unlike his major rival, he claimed: "Now is the accepted time.  Not tomorrow, not some more convenient season."
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Elijah Lovejoy
Henry David Thoreau
W.E.B. DuBois
Frederick Douglas
Booker T. Washington
17.  This muckraking journalist was the author of an anti-lynching book called A Red Record and a co-founder of the NAACP.  She claimed: "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Nelly Bly
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jacob Riis
Jane Addams
18.  Identify the Supreme Court decision which ruled that segregation laws were legal in the "Jim Crow" South, as long as the institutions were "Separate but Equal."
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Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS
Marbury V. Madison
Plessy V. Ferguson
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Loving V. Virginia
19.  Who was the founder of "Negro History Week" - which predated African-American History Month?
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Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. DuBois
Henry Louis Gates
Carter Woodson
John Hope Franklin
20.  What city was the site of the bloodiest race riot in all American history in 1921 - when over three hundred people were killed in bloody combat that lasted for days?
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Southampton County, Virginia
Detroit, Michigan
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Los Angeles, California
Ferguson, Missouri
21. Who was the Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote both "Dream Deferred" and "Let America Be America Again?"
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Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
Nikki Giovanni
bell hooks
22. Identify the Negro Leagues catcher who was known as the "Black Babe Ruth" - and who hit more home runs in his career than any MLB baseball player in history:
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Josh Gibson
Larry Doby
Jackie Robinson
Satchel Paige
Ferguson Jenkins
23. What was the destination for John Lewis, Diane Nash, and the Congress of Racial Equality's "Freedom Riders" during their 1961 effort to guarantee integration of the interstate bus lines?
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Miami, FL
Tallahassee, FL
Mobile, AL
Austin, TX
New Orleans, LA
24.  What city saw widespread rioting which resulted in dozens of deaths during World War II, when African-American workers attempted to integrate housing projects there?
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Detroit
Norfolk
Philadelphia
25.  The Double-V campaign of World War II was an attempt to fight against -
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fascism abroad and communism at home.
communism abroad and inflation at home.
fascism abroad and anarchists at home.
communism abroad and illiteracy at home.
fascism abroad and racism at home.
26.  Identify the African-American actor who was blacklisted during the 1950s for his pro-communist sympathies, and who petitioned the United Nations to sanction the United States for its poor treatment of African-Americans:
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Morgan Freeman
Paul Robeson
Harry Belafonte
Sidney Poitier
Samuel L. Jackson
27. After spending his life fighting for justice for individuals like Emmitt Till and James Meredith while he was the Field Secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, this World War II veteran was assassinated in his own front yard by a white supremacist:
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Stokely Carmichael
Medgar Evers
John Lewis
Thurgood Marshall
Fred Shuttlesworth
28.  Who was the author of an African-American traveler's guide which pointed out all of the hotels, motels, restaurants, and attractions throughout the nation which would allow black customers to patronize their shops?
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Zora Neale Hurston
Ralph Waldo Ellison
Richard Wright
Victor Hugo Green
Charles Hamilton Houston
29.  This man was the winning lawyer in the case of Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS and the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States:
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Clarence Thomas
Charles Hamilton Houston
Oliver Hill
Fred Shuttlesworth
Thurgood Marshall
30.  Identify the only African-American currently seated on the Supreme Court of the United States, who is also perhaps its most conservative and reticent member:
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Neil Gorsuch
Anthony Kennedy
Clarence Thomas
John Roberts
Antonin Scalia
31.  Although he was once labeled, "The Most Dangerous Negro in America" by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, this African-American union leader would go on to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech:
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Eugene V. Debs
Samuel Gompers
Terence Powderly
Asa Philip Randolph
John L. Lewis
32. The closing of all public schools in Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Prince Edward Country, VA - among other Virginia cities - which prevented integration and resulted in the "Lost Class of 1959" for many area schools was a product of:
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Massive Retaliation
Eminent Domain
Local Jurisdiction
Massive Resistance
Educational Vouchers
33. In "A Letter From a Birmingham Jail," the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King explained why he was advocating that -
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African-Americans should not pay taxes to federal, state, or local governments.
The United States government should withdraw immediately from the War in Vietnam.
Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence had not worked and new tactics must be used.
African-Americans of good faith must refuse to obey unjust laws in acts of civil disobedience.
White men and women must be excluded from all Southern Christian Leadership Conference events.
34.  When he began the "I Have A Dream" speech, Martin Luther King started with the line, "Five score years ago..."  What two documents was he invoking the memory of with that statement on August 28th, 1963?
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Washington's "Farewell Address" and the Monroe Doctrine
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation
The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
The Articles of Confederation and the Albany Plan of Union
The Communist Manifesto and Eugene V. Debs Canton Oration
35.  Who was the minister at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL - where four little girls were murdered when a bomb exploded in the church cellar was they prepared Sunday School lessons:
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Fred Shuttlesworth
Ralph Abernathy
Jesse Jackson
James Farmer
Julian Bond
John Cross
36.  Identify the openly homosexual writer who authored the Civil Rights themed novels The Fire Next Time and Giovanni's Room - and who was the subject of the recent documentary film, "I Am Not Your Negro":
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Richard Wright
Ralph Waldo Ellison
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
37.  Identify both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leader who was savagely beaten at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL and the Alabama Governor who ordered state troopers to block his marchers' path on Sunday March 7th, 1965:
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Governor John Patterson
James Farmer and Governor Orval Faubus
Roy Wilkens and Governor Lindsay Almond
Ella Baker and Governor Ross Barnett
John Lewis and Governor George Wallace
38.  What federal law was passed immediately after the "Bloody Sunday" assault - much to the satisfaction of the students who had committed themselves to the work of "Mississippi Freedom Summer" during the sweltering months of 1964?
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Anti-Lynching Law of 1966
The Motor Voter Law
The 24th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
39.  What was the name of the Supreme Court decision which banned miscegenation laws - laws which forbid interracial marriage - in 1967?
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Oberkfell V. Hodges
Morgan V. Virginia
Plessy V. Ferguson
Loving V. Virginia
Tinker V. Des Moines
40.  Identify the heavyweight champion of the world who refused to be inducted into the United States military during the Vietnam War because he was a conscientious objector:  
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George Foreman
Joe Frazier
Muhammad Ali
Jack Johnson
Joe Louis