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Black History Challenge Worksheet

Name ______________________________________

Date ___________________

Black History Challenge

Directions: Circle the letter next to the answer that completes the sentence.

1. Phillis Wheatley published a collection of poetry in ____________.

a. 1773

b. 1837

c. 1861

2. ____________ was an inventor who helped design Washington, D.C.

a. Benjamin Banneker

b. George Washington Carver

c. Frederick Douglass

3. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is considered the father of ____________.

a. jazz

b. blues

c. Chicago

4. In 1909,____________ , along with Robert Peary and a group of Inuit guides,

was the first to reach the North Pole.

a. Matthew Henson

b. Nat Love

c. James Beckwourth

5. W.E.B. DuBois was one of the founders of ____________.

a. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

b. Morehouse College

c. the Congressional Black Caucus

6. Garrett Morgan invented gas masks and ____________.

a. the automatic traffic light

b. the typewriter

c. nylon

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