African Canadian Studies 11 Pre-quiz

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 1. Is Africa a country or a continent? 2. True or False 1/7 of Africa is covered in jungles. 3. Name the world’s largest desert, which is located in Africa.

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 4. True or False Africa has an abundant supply of the raw materials and minerals that are critical and strategic to the world’s industrial economy. 5. What is considered to be the birthplace of humanity? 6. Name the longest river in the world, which is located in Africa.

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 7. True or False Glaciers are found in parts of Africa. 8. True or False Most of the world’s diamonds and gold comes from Africa. 9. What are rulers from Ancient Egypt called?

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 10. Besides Christianity, name another large religion that swept across Africa. 11. 12. What nation started the Atlantic slave trade?

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 13. What three continents were involved in the triangular trade? 14. Name the famous slave ship that the 1st human rights case is named after. 15. What is the name of the route that led the slaves from the southern USA to Canada and to freedom?

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 16. What did the slaves follow in the sky that led them to the north? 17. Name the war in the USA that emancipated the slaves. 18. Who was the USA President who freed the slaves.

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 19. What century did slavery end in? 20. True or False Canada had slaves. 21. Where was North America’s 1st race riot? Hint: in NS

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 22. Where in NS (in the 1700s) was the largest freed black community located outside of Africa? 23. Name the black community in Halifax that was destroyed and the residents were moved in dump trucks. 24. Name the black community in NS that had North America’s 1st all black fire department.

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 25. True or False The Pockwock watershed is North America’s most modern water treatment. 26. True or False Everyone in this room is a target of the KKK. 27. Name the women who refused to give up her seat to a white man and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

African Canadian Studies Pre-quiz 28. What movement did #27 spark? 29. Name the civil rights leader who had a dream? 30. Name the black baseball player who broke the colour barrier in MLB?

Bonus Points Name the people in the following pictures: A B C

Bonus points D E F