Q 01/05

Before the name Juneteenth caught on, what did Texas freedmen call their June 19 commemoration?

A) Liberty Day

B) Jubilee Day

C) Deliverance Day

D) Proclamation Day

Answer · why

B) Jubilee Day

Early Texas freedmen called June 19 Jubilee Day; the first annual commemoration was organized in 1866, a year after the Galveston announcement.

Q 02/05

Roughly how many federal troops had landed in Texas when the Union commander reached Galveston in June 1865?

A) About 500

B) More than 2,000

C) About 12,000

D) Nearly 50,000

Answer · why

B) More than 2,000

Granger landed at Galveston in June 1865 with more than 2,000 federal troops to occupy Texas, enforce emancipation and nullify the Confederate legisla...

Q 03/05

Which U.S. general arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, to announce the freedom of enslaved people?

A) Robert E. Lee

B) William Tecumseh Sherman

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Gordon Granger

Answer · why

D) Gordon Granger

Major General Gordon Granger and his Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, and issued General Order No. 3, declaring all enslave...

Q 04/05

How long after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect did the 1865 Galveston announcement come?

A) 300 days

B) 600 days

C) 900 days

D) 1,200 days

Answer · why

C) 900 days

General Order No. 3, read in Galveston on June 19, 1865, came 900 days, nearly two and a half years, after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took ef...

Q 05/05

Juneteenth is a portmanteau of which two words?

A) June and nineteenth

B) Jubilee and nineteenth

C) June and freedom

D) July and nineteenth

Answer · why

A) June and nineteenth

Juneteenth blends June and nineteenth, the date in 1865 when General Order No. 3 announced emancipation in Galveston, Texas.