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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. How many Blacks were enslaved in Texas when General Granger read the statement that said the slaves were free?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 225,000.

2. How large is the arena for the Angola Prison Rodeo?
(a) 7,000 seats.
(b) 6,000 seats
(c) 4,000 seats.
(d) 9,000 seats.

3. When did complete abolition come to New York?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1839.
(d) 1842.

4. When did Laura Martin Rose, historian and president of the UDC's Mississippi chapter, publish The Ku Klux Klan; or, Invisible Empire?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1911.

5. When did Angola Prison's infamous maximum-security housing unit, Red Hat cell block, close?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1860, how many of the nearly four million enslaved people were under the age of 20?

2. How many Black administrators had Angola had by the time Smith visited Angola Prison?

3. How long was Norris Henderson imprisoned in Angola?

4. When was the African Burial Ground declared a National Historic Landmark?

5. In 1850, how many Black people owned property in New York City?

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