Great African Americans Web Quest

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Visit: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/quiz/bioquiz.shtml to help you answer the following questions.

What is the name of the great civil rights leader who 1. ______won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1968?

What is the name of the first African-American who 2. ______served on the US Supreme Court?

What is the name of the woman who helped hundreds 3. ______of other escaped slaves flee to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad?

What is the name of the Haitian-French pioneer and 4. ______trader who founded the settlement that would later become Chicago?

What is the name of the scientist who developed 5. ______hundreds of products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, pecans, and soybeans, revolutionizing agriculture in the South?

What is the name of the scientist who developed the 6. ______idea of the blood bank, saving innumerable human lives?

What is the name of the explorer and colleague of 7. ______Robert E. Peary who was in the first group of people to visit the North Pole?

What is the name of the ex-slave who founded the 8. ______Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

What is the name of the first African-American woman 9. ______to go into space?

What is the name of the first African-American to play 10. ______major league baseball? 11. ______What is the name of the woman who refused to give up her bus seat, prompting a city-wide bus boycott? This eventually resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that segregation on city buses is unconstitutional.

What is the name of the African-American athlete who 12. ______won many medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympic games?

What is the name of the inventor whose high-quality 13. ______industrial inventions were the basis for the expression "the real McCoy"?

What is the name of the first African-American woman 14. ______to be elected as a U.S. congresswoman from the deep South?

What is the name of the slave who sued for his freedom 15. ______and lost, in a major Supreme Court case before the Civil War?