Treasure Hunt Test Your Knowledge

Use the knowledge you've gained to show you've mastered the information called for on the Black History Treasure Hunt. If you need to go back and review, feel free to do so. Then show what you know, by answering the questions below from your memory.

1. According to several pamphlets in this famous collection, between 1881 and 1900, about how many African Americans died as a result of mob violence?
   

2. One estimate of how many people worked on the Underground Railroad is?
   

3. When the conflict over abolition ended with the Civil War, what did demonstrators outside the White House say was the one thing more that they needed?
   

4. Sixty years after the Civil War ended, what federal program helped to preserve the oral histories of people who had been slaves?
   

5. Who came before Rosa Parks in protesting the segregation of public transportation?
   

6. What was it that made Nat Turner lead his famous revolt in 1831?
   

7. What famous black leader said, "That grave, one-sided justice will not do- The poor call for consideration, too"?
   

8. How did Martin Luther King Jr. think African Americans should meet the physical force thrown at them by discrimination?

9. What were the people at the Million Man March supposed to do right after they took the pledge?
   

10. What's the spirit behind the last line of the poem recited at President Clinton's first inauguration?
    

11. Describe two habits of Nelson Mandela that show his serious dedication to achieving his goals?

    
    

12. Who dreamed of becoming a Shakespearean actor?