21.
In 1673 a group of seven men lead by Louis Joliet and Father Marquette
made which group the first to explore Iowa?
a) British
b) French
c) Spanish
d) Dutch
22.
Which was the largest ethnic group to migrate to Iowa?
a) Germans
b) Dutch
c) British
d) Irish
23.
The largest village of Sauk Indians, known as Saukenuk, was located
in eastern Iowa along the Mississippi boarder. Their chief, Black
Hawk, was a constant opponent of white settlement.
True
False
24.
Alexander Clark was the most prominent Black man in Iowa from
the post Civil War period. Which one of the following is not true
of him?
a) He was the first Black to
enter Iowa University.
b) He was called "The colored
orator of the West".
c) He opened the first elementary
school for Black children in Iowa.
d) He was appointed Minister
to Liberia by President Harrison.
25.
Which of these prominent Black men were educated in Iowa and responsible
for founding the Piney Woods School in 1909?
a) Charles Drew
b) Percy Jullian
c) Laurence C. Jones
d) Booker T. Washington
26.
The first Black church in Iowa was established in what city in
1863?
a) Mount Pleasant
b) Waterloo
c) Iowa City
d) Shenandoah
27.
Iowa's first Black newspaper, established in 1894, was a weekly
paper entitled ________.
a) The Communicator
b) The Iowa Bystander
c) The Negro Weekly
d) The Buxton Tribune
28.
Between 1838 - 1840 the Iowa Legislature passed a number of laws
that restricted the rights of free Blacks. They were known as
__________.
a) The Negro Constricts
b) The Iowa Mandate
c) The Negro Decrees
d) The Black Codes
29.
In 1918 The first Black woman was admitted to practice law in
Iowa. Her name was __________.
a) Autherine Lucy
b) Wertie Blackwell Weaver
c) Joanne Little
d) Gertrude Rush
30.
Pick the three early major religions practiced by Blacks in Iowa?
a) Negro Baptist
b) Church of God in Christ
c) The Nation of Islam
d) African Methodist Episcopal
e) Jehovah's Witness
31.
Alexander Levi, a French Jew, was the first foreigner to be naturalized
in Iowa Territory in 1837.
True
False
32.
Who was the first European to settle in Iowa?
a) Louis Joliet
b) Julien Dubuque
c) George Davenport
d) Abner Kneeland
33.
Near the Iowa towns of Marquette and McGregor you can find Native
American burial mounds dating back to prehistoric times called
the Effigy National Monument.
True
False
34.
What was the largest religious denomination on the Iowa frontier.
a) Presbyterian
b) Methodist
c) Catholic
d) Lutheran
35.
Which of the following was not a significant station in Iowa for
the Underground Railroad?
a) the Stafford House in Auburn
b) the Todd House in Tabor
c) the Hitchcock House in Lewis
d) the Jordan House in West Des
Moines
36.
German immigrant, John Boepple, started the United States' first
fresh water pearl button industry in what Iowa city?
a) Burlington
b) Marshalltown
c) Muscatine
d) Council Bluffs
37.
During World War I the governor of Iowa deemed it against the
law to do what?
a) show pictures of battle scenes
b) buy and sell German goods
c) make comments reflecting that
the US might be losing the war
d) speak foreign languages
38.
The last Native American battle to take place on Iowa soil was
said to have been fought in what county?
a) Appanoose
b) Adair
c) Pocahontas
d) Osceola
39.
The Iowa tribe of Native Americans lived near, what is today known
as, __________.
a) Eldon
b) Grinnell
c) Carbon
d) Orchard
40.
One of the first housing projects was funded in 1933 at the Iowa
city of Granger, particularly for __________ coal miners.
a) African American
b) Italian
c) Chinese
d) Irish