Complete sentences

The Times of African Nova Scotians

Read the newspaper and answer the following

the questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES

on loose-leaf!

1. 
   Explain the Viola Desmond Story of 1946.
   

2. 
   The _____ Church had been designated the ‘Mother Church’ of the African Baptist Association of Nova Scotia.
   

3. 
   A. Who was the 1^st woman self-made millionaire in the USA?
   

B. What product made her wealthy?

4. What was the name of Carrie Best’s newspaper, which was the 1^st black newspaper in NS?

5. A. Explain the term Jim Crow.

B. Who was Jim Crow?

6. A. Why did Richard Preston come the NS?

B. What society did Preston create in 1846?

7. Who was the 1^st black World Boxing Champion in any weight class?

8. Who is the only boxer inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame not to have won an official title?

9. The ______ League routinely drew 500 spectators and the caliber of hockey was equal of better than any hockey in Canada.

10. Who was Nova Scotia’s 1^st indigenous African Nova Scotia Lawyer?

11. What was formed in 1945 to “improve and further the interest of Coloured people of the province”?

12. Who was the only commissioned African Nova Scotian officer in WWI?

13. A. What became the only segregated Black Battalion in Canadian military history?

B. Where were they based out of?

- Page 8: Pictou

14. What was Nova Scotia’s 1^st black periodical?

- Page 9: The Atlantic Advocate

15. A. What organization opened up a chapter in Glace Bay in 1918?

- Page 9: The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

B. What was the purpose of this organization?

16. What is the purpose of the Black Cultural Center of Nova Scotia?

17. Who was the 1^st African Nova Scotian invested into the Order of Canada in 1921?

18. Who was the 1^st African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the USA?

19. What is awarded annually in honour of Portia White?

20. Where did Madeline Symonds graduate from?

21. What did the Educational Act of 1954 do?

22. Who was Stokely Carmichael and what was significance of his visit to NS in 1968?

23. Why was the Congress of Black Women of Canada created?

- Page 14: To clarify and bring due recognition to the role of Black Women in Society.

24. Who was the 1^st African Canadian woman to serve on the judiciary in Canada and the 1^st African Nova Scotian appointed to the Bench?

25. Who was the 1^st African Nova Scotian to argue and win a case in the Supreme Court of Canada.

26. Trace the map of NS on page 16 and label the following Black Communities of NS:

Shleburne, Birchtown, Weymouth Falls, Hammonds Plains, Africville, Lucasville, Maroon Hill, Halifax, Preston, Upper Big Tracadie, Lincolnville, Annapolis Royal

27. The 1^st African in Nova Scotia was Mathieu DaCosta and he served as an interpreter between what 2 groups? French and Mi’kmaq.

28. What was the nature of the African slave trade? It ensured that slaves such as - ---George had been separated from their families, their communities and their heritage. It entailed “social death,” and the loss of all recognition of previous marks of identity.

29. What does the French name panis mean? Aboriginal slave

30. What were the terms of the Black Codes? (Code Noir of 1685)

- Slave owners could not have babies with their slaves.

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  Slave owners were required to provide each slave with 2 suits of clothing or 4 ells of cloth per year.
  
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  Masters had to take care of slaves in their old age.
  

32. What did general Birch issue in NY to the Loyalsits? Certificates of Freedom

33. What provided an invaluable primary source for genealogical research for the Black Loyalists? The Book of Negroes

34. Who was the commander of the Black Pioneers? Stephen Blucke

35. Birchtown formed the largest black settlement of the time in British North America.

36. Where was Canada’s first race riot? Shelburne

37. Who was the first black Baptist minister of NS? David George

38. Who petitioned England for the allotments of land? Thomas Peters

39. Who became Canada’s 1^st police woman? Rose Fortune

40. What famous fort did the Maroons help to build? Citadel

41. When was the last advertised sale of a slave in NS? 1808

42. Who brought gradual abolition in Upper Canada in 1792? John Simcoe

43. The British recruited many Refugees to serve in the Colonial Marines.

44. Where did 95 Refugees move to in 1821? Trinidad