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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Galveston Island - New York City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Al Edwards Sr. attempt to turn Juneteenth into a statewide celebration in Texas?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

2. When was the book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South published?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1955.

3. How many years did it take Nora Davidson's Ladies' Memorial Association to exhume bodies of Confederate soldiers and bury them?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 20 years.

4. What color uniforms did Blacks wear in the Union Army?
(a) Green.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

5. How many firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people were collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s?
(a) 1,700.
(b) 1,900.
(c) 2,800.
(d) 2,300.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Blandford Cemetery located?

2. When did a Black community once exist in what has become Central Park?

3. What was Jefferson Davis's home state?

4. How old was Yvonne Holden's grandfather when he and his brother tried to leave Arkansas for Illinois?

5. According to a woman named Temple Cummins, how long did her master intend to delay telling the slaves they were free?

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