Social Movements & Reform

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1.Which network of secret routes and safe houses carried escapees northward before the Civil War?
- A. the Trail of Tears
- B. the Chisholm Trail
- C. the Oregon Trail
- D. the Underground Railroad
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the Underground Railroad
Did you know? Despite the name, the Underground Railroad ran above ground through hidden stations.
2.Which 1964 law barred discrimination in public accommodations and employment?
- A. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- B. the Fair Housing Act of 1968
- C. the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- D. the Equal Pay Act of 1963
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the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Did you know? Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964.
3.In which city did the 1886 Haymarket affair take place?
- A. Pittsburgh
- B. New York
- C. Chicago
- D. Detroit
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Chicago
Did you know? The Haymarket bombing and trial became an international labor landmark.
4.Which territory granted women the vote in 1869, decades before the nation?
- A. Montana
- B. Colorado
- C. Utah
- D. Wyoming
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Wyoming
Did you know? Wyoming's "mother of suffrage" claim carried into its 1890 statehood.
5.Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
- A. John F. Kennedy
- B. Lyndon B. Johnson
- C. Harry Truman
- D. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Did you know? Johnson pushed the bill through a 54-day Senate debate.
6.Which 1938 law set the first federal minimum wage, at 25 cents an hour?
- A. the Fair Labor Standards Act
- B. the Social Security Act
- C. the Wagner Act
- D. the Norris-LaGuardia Act
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the Fair Labor Standards Act
Did you know? The 1938 act also set the 40-hour work week.
7.In which year was the Nineteenth Amendment ratified?
- A. 1920
- B. 1919
- C. 1924
- D. 1918
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1920
Did you know? The amendment took effect in time for the November 1920 election.
8.Which young Montgomery pastor led the 1955-1956 bus boycott?
- A. E.D. Nixon
- B. Ralph Abernathy
- C. Fred Shuttlesworth
- D. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Did you know? King, 26 years old, headed the Montgomery Improvement Association.
9.Which 1935 law guaranteed workers the right to organize and bargain collectively?
- A. the Taft-Hartley Act
- B. the Landrum-Griffin Act
- C. the National Labor Relations Act
- D. the Clayton Act
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the National Labor Relations Act
Did you know? Senator Robert Wagner's act created the NLRB.
10.Which document, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, was adopted at Seneca Falls?
- A. the Declaration of Independence
- B. the Declaration of Sentiments
- C. the Declaration of Rights of Man
- D. the Hampton Institute charter
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the Declaration of Sentiments
Did you know? Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, including the vote demand.
11.Which 1965 law banned literacy tests and put voter registration under federal oversight?
- A. the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- B. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- C. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
- D. the Reconstruction Acts
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the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Did you know? Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in August 1965.
12.Which union federation was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886?
- A. the Congress of Industrial Organizations
- B. the American Federation of Labor
- C. the Knights of Labor
- D. the Industrial Workers of the World
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the American Federation of Labor
Did you know? The AFL united craft unions under Samuel Gompers's leadership.
13.Which amendment ratified in 1920 barred denying the vote on account of sex?
- A. the Fifteenth Amendment
- B. the Twenty-First Amendment
- C. the Seventeenth Amendment
- D. the Nineteenth Amendment
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the Nineteenth Amendment
Did you know? Tennessee's ratification completed the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920.
14.From which memorial's steps did King deliver "I Have a Dream" in August 1963?
- A. the Jefferson Memorial
- B. the Capitol steps
- C. the Lincoln Memorial
- D. the Washington Monument
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the Lincoln Memorial
Did you know? King's speech was delivered on August 28, 1963.
15.Who served as the American Federation of Labor's first president, from 1886?
- A. Terence Powderly
- B. Samuel Gompers
- C. William Sylvis
- D. Eugene V. Debs
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Samuel Gompers
Did you know? Gompers led the AFL, except one year, until his 1924 death.
16.In which New York town did the first women's rights convention meet, in July 1848?
- A. Seneca Falls
- B. Saratoga Springs
- C. Buffalo
- D. Syracuse
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Seneca Falls
Did you know? About 300 people attended the Seneca Falls convention.
17.Which 1963 march drew about 250,000 people to the National Mall?
- A. the Poor People's Campaign
- B. the Selma to Montgomery marches
- C. the March on the Pentagon
- D. the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Did you know? The August 1963 march ended at the Lincoln Memorial.
18.Which 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned school segregation?
- A. Dred Scott v. Sandford
- B. Loving v. Virginia
- C. Brown v. Board of Education
- D. Plessy v. Ferguson
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Brown v. Board of Education
Did you know? Chief Justice Warren's unanimous Brown ruling declared separate schools unequal.
19.Which city saw four students launch the first sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter, in February 1960?
- A. Atlanta
- B. Birmingham
- C. Nashville
- D. Greensboro
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Greensboro
Did you know? The Greensboro Four sat at the counter on February 1, 1960.
20.Which federal case did Thurgood Marshall argue as lead counsel before becoming a Supreme Court justice?
- A. Gideon v. Wainwright
- B. Miranda v. Arizona
- C. Roe v. Wade
- D. Brown v. Board of Education
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Brown v. Board of Education
Did you know? Marshall argued Brown in 1952-1953 before Warren's court.
21.From which Alabama city did voting-rights marchers set out toward Montgomery in March 1965?
- A. Tuscaloosa
- B. Huntsville
- C. Selma
- D. Birmingham
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Selma
Did you know? The Selma marches covered about 54 miles to Montgomery.
22.Which group of students integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957?
- A. the Little Rock Nine
- B. the Tuskegee Airmen
- C. the Greensboro Four
- D. the Freedom Riders
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the Little Rock Nine
Did you know? Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to escort the Little Rock Nine.
23.On which Spanish ship did enslaved Africans stage a famous 1839 revolt?
- A. the Amistad
- B. the Clotilda
- C. the Zong
- D. the Creole
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the Amistad
Did you know? Former president John Quincy Adams argued the Amistad captives' case before the Supreme Court.
24.Which Tennessee university city saw King assassinated in April 1968?
- A. Knoxville
- B. Nashville
- C. Memphis
- D. Chattanooga
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Memphis
Did you know? King was in Memphis supporting the sanitation workers' strike.
25.Which 1892 battle at a Carnegie steel plant pitted workers against Pinkerton agents?
- A. the Ludlow massacre
- B. the Homestead strike
- C. the Haymarket affair
- D. the Pullman strike
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the Homestead strike
Did you know? The July 1892 battle at Homestead left about ten dead.
26.Which Quaker abolitionist co-organized the Seneca Falls convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
- A. Lucy Stone
- B. Sojourner Truth
- C. Lucretia Mott
- D. Susan B. Anthony
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Lucretia Mott
Did you know? Mott, a preacher, spoke on the convention's opening evening.
27.Which newspaper did Frederick Douglass publish from Rochester, New York, from 1847?
- A. The North Star
- B. The Liberator
- C. Freedom's Journal
- D. The Crisis
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The North Star
Did you know? Douglass's motto: "Right is of no sex, truth is of no color."
28.Which 1964 voter registration drive took 1,000 volunteers to Mississippi?
- A. Operation Dixie
- B. Project C
- C. Freedom Summer
- D. the Poor People's Campaign
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Freedom Summer
Did you know? Freedom Summer volunteers founded the "Freedom Schools" across Mississippi.
29.Which 1911 Manhattan garment-factory fire killed 146 workers and spurred safety laws?
- A. the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
- B. the Iroquois Theatre fire
- C. the Coconut Grove fire
- D. the General Slocum fire
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the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Did you know? Locked exits doomed many victims of the Triangle fire on March 25, 1911.
30.Which Quaker-raised organizer co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Anthony?
- A. Lucy Stone
- B. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- C. Julia Ward Howe
- D. Lucretia Mott
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Did you know? Stanton and Anthony founded the NWSA in New York in 1869.
31.Which West African colony, settled by freed African Americans from 1821, became independent in 1847?
- A. Sierra Leone
- B. Ghana
- C. Liberia
- D. Gabon
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Liberia
Did you know? The American Colonization Society settled Monrovia, named for President Monroe.
32.Which organization of southern students was founded at Shaw University in April 1960?
- A. the Congress of Racial Equality
- B. the NAACP
- C. the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- D. the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Did you know? SNCC coordinated the 1964 Freedom Summer registration drive.
33.Which federation, founded in 1935, organized industrial unions like the steelworkers?
- A. the American Federation of Labor
- B. the Knights of Labor
- C. the Industrial Workers of the World
- D. the Congress of Industrial Organizations
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the Congress of Industrial Organizations
Did you know? John L. Lewis's CIO merged with the AFL in 1955.
34.Who became the first woman elected to the United States Congress, in 1916?
- A. Shirley Chisholm
- B. Jeannette Rankin
- C. Hattie Caraway
- D. Nancy Pelosi
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Jeannette Rankin
Did you know? Montana sent Rankin to the House three years before the Nineteenth Amendment.
35.Which formerly enslaved orator asked, at an 1851 Ohio convention, "Ain't I a Woman?"
- A. Harriet Tubman
- B. Sojourner Truth
- C. Maria Stewart
- D. Frances Harper
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Sojourner Truth
Did you know? Truth's extemporized address became the Akron convention's landmark moment.
36.Which six-year-old girl, escorted by federal marshals, integrated a New Orleans school in 1960?
- A. Claudette Colvin
- B. Linda Brown
- C. Diane Nash
- D. Ruby Bridges
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Ruby Bridges
Did you know? Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary on November 14, 1960.
37.Which famous labor organizer, born in Ireland, was called "the most dangerous woman in America"?
- A. Emma Goldman
- B. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
- C. Eleanor Roosevelt
- D. Frances Perkins
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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Did you know? Mother Jones organized coal miners until her death at 93 in 1930.
38.Which suffragist was arrested in 1872 for voting in the presidential election?
- A. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- B. Alice Paul
- C. Susan B. Anthony
- D. Carrie Chapman Catt
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Susan B. Anthony
Did you know? Anthony voted in Rochester, New York, citing her Fourteenth Amendment citizenship.
39.Which abolitionist newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison found in Boston in 1831?
- A. The North Star
- B. The Liberator
- C. The Revolution
- D. The Colored American
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The Liberator
Did you know? Garrison edited The Liberator for 35 years, until slavery's abolition.
40.How many days did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
- A. 365
- B. 381
- C. 40
- D. 281
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381
Did you know? The boycott began in December 1955 and ended in December 1956.

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