Q 01/05

Before the name Juneteenth caught on, which of these 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

Jubilee Day was among the earliest names for the June 19 commemoration, first held in 1866; in the Bible, a jubilee is the year when the enslaved are ...

Q 02/05

Many of the Union soldiers in Galveston when freedom was announced in June 1865 belonged to which Black regiments?

A) Harlem Hellfighters

B) US Colored Troops

C) Buffalo Soldiers

D) Louisiana Native Guards

Answer · why

B) US Colored Troops

US Colored Troops, the Black regiments the Union began raising in 1863, were among the soldiers who occupied Galveston and enforced the order across T...

Q 03/05

Black regiments that reached Galveston in June 1865 had helped capture which Southern city two months earlier?

A) Savannah

B) Atlanta

C) Richmond

D) Vicksburg

Answer · why

C) Richmond

Richmond, the Confederate capital, fell to Union forces that included Black regiments; days later some of the same men stood at Appomattox for the sur...

Q 04/05

Which Confederate general surrendered 71 days before freedom was announced in Galveston?

A) Joseph E. Johnston

B) Robert E. Lee

C) Edmund Kirby Smith

D) Stonewall Jackson

Answer · why

B) Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox with Black Union regiments among the troops on the field; weeks later some of those same soldiers landed at Ga...

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.