Checking Out Me History

Question 1

Dem

Answer 1

They

Question 2

1066

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William the Conqueror invaded Britain

Question 3

Dick Whittington

Answer 3

Story about a poor boy who goes to London the see the Queen

Question 4

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Answer 4

black man who led uprising of slaves

Question 5

Haiti

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Island nation in the Caribbean (ex French colony)

Question 6

lick back

Answer 6

beat

Question 7

Napoleon

Answer 7

famous French general

Question 8

de cow who jump over de moon

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nursery rhyme

Question 9

de dish ran away with de spoon

Answer 9

nursery rhyme

Question 10

Nanny de maroon

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18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons; fought a guerrilla war over many years against British authorities in the Colony of Jamaica

Question 11

Lord Nelson

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(Nelson’s column) leader of British navy who fought Napoleon

Question 12

Shaka de great Zulu

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founder of the Zulu kingdom

Question 13

Columbus and 1942

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the year Columbus found America

Question 14

Caribs and Arawaks

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native people of Caribbean islands, who were killed, raped and enslaved by Spanish settlers (Columbus)

Question 15

Florence Nughtingale

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woman who helped “invent” the nursing profession during the Crimean War

Question 16

Mary Seacole

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Woman who wanted to help in the same war (Crimean) as Florence Nightingale, but was refused by British authorities because she was black. So she spent her own money to set up the British hotel to help soldiers