Take the Historical News Journal Quiz
(scroll down for answers)

Inventors:

1) What was the name of the woman who was known in 1919 as "The World's Richest Black Woman?"

2) Who, in 1896, was called "...the greatest electrician in the world"?

3) Who invented a device that revolutionized the trolley industry?

4) Who was the first 'Real McCoy'?

Military:

5) The 20th Regiment United States Colored Troops came from what state?

6) Who was considered an 'invaluable scout and a remarkable woman' by Union Generals?

7) Who was the first Patriot to die in the War for Independence?

Politics:

8) Who was the first Black Senator?

9) What Amendment to the Constitution protected Blacks right to vote?

General Knowledge:

10) What was the name of the first Black Newspaper?

11) Who is the first Black man to publish poetry in the Colonies?



ANSWERS

Inventors:
1) Madame C. J. Walker
2) Granville Woods
3) Walter Hard
4) Elijah J. McCoy, who owned more than 50 patents for inventions.

Military:
5) New York
6) Harriet Taubman
7) A Black man named Crispus Attucks

Politics:
8) Hiram R. Revels
9) 15th

General Knowledge:
10) "Freedom Journal"
11) Jupiter Hammon