Amistad
What do you remember about this riveting movie?
Quiz created by: Bill Graves
1. What is La Amistad?
(#) A city
(#) A ship
(#) An army
(#) A building
2. Where did the ship end up?
(#) West Africa
(#) America
(#) England
(#) Cuba
3. Where were the Africans jailed?
(#) Maryland
(#) Maine
(#) Delaware
(#) Connecticut
4. Which former president gets involved?
(#) Thomas Jefferson
(#) John Adams
(#) John Quincy Adams
(#) George Washington
5. What is the name of the pro-abolitionist newspaper?
(#) The Freedom Paper
(#) The Abolitionist
(#) The Emancipator
(#) The Freedom Chronicle
6. Who was president of the United States at the time?
(#) Martin Van Buren
(#) John Quincy Adams
(#) Abraham Lincoln
(#) Ulysses S. Grant
7. The Queen of which nation got involved in the fray?
(#) Canada
(#) Spain
(#) England
(#) Italy
8. Roger Sherman specialized in which kind of law?
(#) Military
(#) Property
(#) Civil
(#) Divorce
9. Who announced the US Supreme Courts decision?
(#) Levi Woodbury
(#) Joseph Story
(#) William Cushing
(#) Oliver Wendell Holmes
10. The Lomboko Slave Fortress was located in what is now known as...?
(#) Ivory Coast
(#) Liberia
(#) Uganda
(#) Sierra Leone
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