Directions: Click on the link below and read the article and answer each question

below; you may need to look at your notes for some answers. This is worth 22 points in
total. Make sure to write in complete sentences in order to get full credit.

Link:
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/03/25/the-growing-diversity-of-black-a
merica/

1) How many people In 2019, 40.7 million people in the U.S. identified their
identified as Black in race as Black only.
the US in 2019?

2) According to the article, a) 10%

in 2019, what b) 17%
percentage of the Black c) 56%
population lives in d) 17%
a) West?
b) Midwest?
c) South?
d) Northeast?

*answer a through d

3) Which state has the 1. Texas

largest Black population? 2. Georgia
3. Florida
Now list the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 4. New York
5th state with the highest 5. North Carolina
Black population.

4) What percentage of Black The percentage of Black Americans that had a

Americans had a bachelors bachelors ranged from 15% to 23%. The percentage of
and a masters in 2019? Black Americans that had a master’s degree was 9%.

5) What two regions are most The two regions are the Caribbean and Africa.
Black immigrants from?

6) What percent of Black 29% of Black Americans made that much.

Americans made between
$25,000-$49,999?

7) What percentage of Black 18% of Black Americans made that much.

Americans made over
$100,000?

8) Explain the 13th Slavery was abolished from the USA

amendment?

9) Explain the 14th All Americans who were born or naturalized in the
amendment? country were given citizenship.

10) Explain the 15th Any US citizen's right to vote cannot be restricted or
amendment? denied by the government due to their race, color, or
former servitude.

11) Quickly explain what General Gordon Granger of the Union army
“Juneteenth” is. proclaimed the abolition of slavery on June 19 in
Texas, the final state to do so.