DiversityNursing.com Survey Results for our Black History Month Quiz

1.  Who escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 to become the conductor of the Underground Railroad?   Harriet Tubman

Harriet Beecher Stowe  -  8.8%
Frederick Douglass  -  10.7%
Harriet Tubman  -  80.3%
Rosa Parks  -  0.0%
No Responses  -  0.0%
Total 100%

2.  What state was the first to have more blacks than whites?    South Carolina

Missouri  -  13.7%
Florida  -  3.9%
South Carolina  -  69.6%
Tennessee  -  12.7%
No Responses  -  0.0%
Total 100%

3.  What was the first state to abolish slavery?   Vermont

New Hampshire  -  19.6%
Connecticut  -  28.4%
Vermont  -  31.3%
New York  -  20.5%
No Responses  -  0.0%
Total 100%

4. What agricultural machine, invented in 1794, increased the need for slave labor in the South?   The Cotton Gin

The Tractor  -  3.9%
The Cotton Gin  -  94.1%
The Internal Combustion Engine  -  <1%
The Pesticide Pump  -  <1%
Total 100%

5.  In what city did the first African American-owned newspaper, Freedom's Journal, begin publishing in 1827?     New York City

Detroit  -  31.3%
Denver  -  0.0%
Chicago  -  49.0%
New York  -  19.6%
Total 100%

6.  In what year did the first enslaved Africans arrive in North America?     1526

1333  -  1.9%
1526  -  66.6%
1776  -  19.6%
1834  -  10.7%
No Responses  -  <1%
Total 100%

7.  Which Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1865, outlaws slavery?        
The 13th Amendment

The 5th Amendment  -  12.7%
The 13th Amendment  -  73.5%
The 3rd Amendment   -  2.9%
The 11th Amendment  -  10.7%
No Responses   -  0.0%
Total 100%

8.  Which African American athlete won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936?     Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens   -  86.2%
Michael Johnson   -  <1%
Jackie Robinson   -  4.9%
Joe Louis   -  5.8%
No Responses   -  1.9%
Total 100%

9. In what year did the US Supreme Court declare segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional?         1954

1931   -  1.9%
1967   -  51.9%
1982   -  1.9%
1954   -  44.1%
No Responses   -  0.0%
Total 100%

10.  Who wrote, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"?   
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Malcolm X   -  18.6%
Marcus Garvey   -  8.8%
Martin Luther King, Jr.   -  64.7%
Sojourner Truth   -  7.8%
No Responses   -  0.0%
Total 100%