Black History Month Test

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Black History Month Test

Last updated about 5 years ago

7 questions

Note from the author:

Black history month assessment. Questions, vocabulary, and matching activities. 
Figures included:
Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson

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Black history month assessment. Questions, vocabulary, and matching activities. 
Figures included:
Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson

What was the Underground Railroad?

a group who helped people escape slavery

a tunnel between Maryland and Pennsylvania

a train that took enslaved people to safe places

a farm where Harriet Tubman was forced to work

What happened during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Blacks and whites rode the bus to school together.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Thousands of people refused to ride the bus in protest.

Rosa Parks protested buses because they cause pollution.

Who refused to give up a bus seat and helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Harriet Tubman

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Parks

Susan B. Anthony

What is one reason why Ruby Bridges is a role model?

She won the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools.

She bravely stood up for equal rights when she integrated a school.

She worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to end segregation.

She became the first African-American U.S. Marshal.

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was ILLEGAL. What does ILLEGAL mean?

something that is against the law

something that separates people

something that teaches people

something that people dislike

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Ruby Bridges		Helped abolish slavery by creating a route called the “underground railroad” to help slaves escape to freedom.
Harriet Tubman		Refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Fought to end segregation and was known as the “first lady of civil rights.”
Jackie Robinson		First African American child to attend an all white school in the American South.
George Washington Carver		First African American to play in Major League Baseball. Ended racial segregation in sports.
Rosa Parks		Was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Fought to end segregation and Jim Crow Laws. Influential spokesman and famous for changing the lives of African Americans. Made the famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.		American botanist and inventor. Promoted alterative crops to cotton. Well known for finding many uses for the peanut

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Civil Rights		Separating people because of their skin color.
Segregation		To refuse to use or buy a product or service to protest somethings that is believed to be unfair or wrong.
Underground Railroad		Rights that all people have to freedom and to be treated equally.
Boycott		The practice of uniting people from different races in an attempt to give people equal rights.
Integration		A condition in which people are owned by others, who control where they live and at what they work.
Slavery		A network of people, secret routes, and safe houses established in the United States used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a group who helped people escape slavery

a tunnel between Maryland and Pennsylvania

a train that took enslaved people to safe places

a farm where Harriet Tubman was forced to work

What happened during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Blacks and whites rode the bus to school together.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Thousands of people refused to ride the bus in protest.

Rosa Parks protested buses because they cause pollution.

Who refused to give up a bus seat and helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Harriet Tubman

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Parks

Susan B. Anthony

What is one reason why Ruby Bridges is a role model?

She won the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools.

She bravely stood up for equal rights when she integrated a school.

She worked with Eleanor Roosevelt to end segregation.

She became the first African-American U.S. Marshal.

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was ILLEGAL. What does ILLEGAL mean?

something that is against the law

something that separates people

something that teaches people

something that people dislike

Ruby Bridges

Helped abolish slavery by creating a
route called the “underground railroad” to help slaves escape to freedom.

Harriet Tubman

Refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Fought to end segregation and was known as the “first lady of civil rights.”

Jackie Robinson

First African American child to attend an all
white school in the American South.

George Washington Carver

First African American to play in Major
League Baseball. Ended racial segregation in sports.

Rosa Parks

Was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Fought to end segregation and Jim Crow Laws. Influential spokesman and famous for changing the lives of African Americans. Made the famous "I Have A Dream" speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

American botanist and inventor. Promoted
alterative crops to cotton. Well known for finding many uses for the peanut

Civil Rights

Separating people because of their skin color.

Segregation

To refuse to use or buy a product or service to protest somethings that is believed to be unfair or wrong.

Underground Railroad

Rights that all people have to freedom and to be treated equally.

Boycott

The practice of uniting people from different races in an attempt to give people equal rights.

Integration

A condition in which people are owned by others, who control where they live and at what they work.

Slavery

A network of people, secret routes, and safe houses established in the United States  used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.