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HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
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Pop Quiz Fourth of July

c. James Garfield.

d. Benjamin Harrison.

6. Who said this: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery . . ."

a. Harriet Beecher Stowe.

b. Harriet Tubman.

c. Frederick Douglass.

d. William Lloyd Garrison.

7. On July 4, 1827, this state marked the occasion by emancipating its slaves.

a. Pennsylvania.

b. Massachusetts.

c. New Jersey.

d. New York.

8. These two presidents spent a July Fourth holiday at Cape May while in office.

a. Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland.

b. Franklin Pierce and Benjamin Harrison.

c. Ulysses Grant and Calvin Coolidge.

d. Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson.

9. The "Star-Spangled Banner National Peace Chime" was dedicated on July 4, 1926, the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration. Where is the peace chime?

a. Independence Hall.

b. Yorktown, Va.

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