IOWA'S DIVERSITY


1.
Edna Griffin, John Bibb, and Leonard Hudson are famous Iowans because they successfully challenged segregated lunchcounters in Des Moines in 1948.
True
False

2.
The Old Order Amish, also known as the "horse and buggy people," settled in Iowa in the 1840's.
True
False

3.
What city is home to the oldest Hispanic community in Iowa.
a) Ft. Madison
b) Dubuque
c) Decorah
d) Spirit Lake

4.
The famous African American scientist, George Washington Carver, studied at which two Iowa schools?
a) Simpson College
b) Iowa State University
c) University of Iowa
d) Grinnell College
e) Northern Iowa University
f) Drake University

5.
Iowa's largest Native American population can be found in this city.
a) Ames
b) Tama
c) Clarinda
d) Sioux City

6.
The state of Iowa gets its name from the Ioway tribe of Native Americans. Ioway means "The Lost Souls."
True
False

7.
The famous African American opera singer, Simon Estes, came from which Iowa city?
a) Spencer
b) Ottumwa
c) Council Bluffs
d) Centerville

8.
The first African Americans to live in Iowa were __________ .
a) African royalty
b) enslaved Blacks
c) freed Blacks
d) African entrepreneurs
e) none of the above

9.
Who was the first woman to become the president of a state university in Iowa?
a) Jane Pittman
b) Mary Sue Coleman
c) Loretta Young
d) Bertha Pitts Cambell

10.
The last Native American battle fought on Iowa soil was fought where?
a) Pocahontas County
b) Madison County
c) Wapello County
d) Marshall County

11.
The Railroad Industry was responsible for bringing __________ people to Iowa for the first time.
a) Chinese
b) German
c) Hispanic
d) French

12.
Pick the three true statements about Fort Des Moines?
a) It was started in 1942.
b) It was the first training camp to desegregate the barracks of Army troops.
c) 39 of the first 440 trainees were African Americans.
d) It was the home of the Women's Army Corps.
e) It was the first co-ed training camp in the US

13.
Iowa once had a city named Buxton, that was founded and developed by African
Americans. Buxton was the home of __________ .
a) "the greatest Vaudeville theater in Iowa."
b) "the wisest Medicine Man west of the Mississippi."
c) "the first and greatest colored YMCA in the world."
d) "the richest African American in North America."

14.
Annie Wittenmeyer was an Iowan who did many great deeds around and during the Civil War; including,
a) coordinating massive shipments of staples to troops
b) creating special hospital diet kitchens for wounded soldiers
c) turned an abandoned barracks in Davenport into an orphanage for the children of soldiers that had died
d) opened the first free public school in Keokuk for poor children
e) all of the above

15.
Which is the newest group of refugees relocating to the state of Iowa?
a) Bosnians and Sudansese
b) South Africans
c) Haitians
d) Russians

16.
The __________ Indians who now call themselves Meskwaki, "red earth people," have a settlement in Tama County, which is still owned by the tribe as a whole.
a) Sioux
b) Fox
c) Seminole
d) Dakota

17.
This Iowa town, whose name means "city of refugen" was founded in 1847 by a band of Hollanders under the leadership of Peter Scholte.
a) Ogden
b) Pella
c) Anamosa
d) Macedonia

18.
What Iowa city became the home for the first Mosque for Muslim worship in the US?
a) Des Moines
b) Waterloo
c) Cedar Rapids
d) Council Bluffs

19.
What group was the fastest growing minority population in the state of Iowa between 1980 - 1990.
a) Laotians
b) African Americans
c) Hispanics
d) Southeast Asians

20.
The NAACP forced the Army to allow Blacks into their training schools so they set up an integrated training camp in Des Moines in May of 1917.
True
False

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

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