Social Movements & Reform

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1.Which 1914 law exempted unions from antitrust prosecution?
- A. the Clayton Antitrust Act
- B. the Sherman Antitrust Act
- C. the Taft-Hartley Act
- D. the Interstate Commerce Act
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the Clayton Antitrust Act
Did you know? Gompers called the Clayton Act labor's "Magna Carta".
2.Which autobiography, published in 1845, became the era's best-known slave narrative?
- A. Twelve Years a Slave
- B. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- C. Uncle Tom's Cabin
- D. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Did you know? Douglass's Narrative sold 5,000 copies in four months.
3.On which Selma bridge did troopers attack marchers on "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965?
- A. the Edmund Pettus Bridge
- B. the Coosa River bridge
- C. the Rainbow Arch Bridge
- D. the Tensaw bridge
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the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Did you know? About 600 marchers were turned back at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
4.Which 1905-founded union, the "Wobblies," organized "one big union" for all workers?
- A. the Knights of Labor
- B. the Industrial Workers of the World
- C. the American Federation of Labor
- D. the United Mine Workers
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the Industrial Workers of the World
Did you know? Big Bill Haywood chaired the IWW's founding convention in Chicago.
5.Which abolitionist delivered the 1852 speech "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?"
- A. Henry Highland Garnet
- B. Charles Lenox Remond
- C. William Lloyd Garrison
- D. Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
Did you know? Douglass spoke in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852.
6.Which university did James Meredith integrate under federal escort, in 1962?
- A. the University of Mississippi
- B. Auburn University
- C. the University of Alabama
- D. Louisiana State University
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the University of Mississippi
Did you know? Riots against Meredith's enrollment killed two before he registered.
7.Which 1894 railroad boycott, centering on Pullman cars, halted trains nationwide?
- A. the Coal Strike of 1902
- B. the Pullman Strike
- C. the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- D. the Homestead Strike
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the Pullman Strike
Did you know? Federal troops broke the Pullman Strike in July 1894.
8.Which 1968 law banned discrimination in the sale and rental of housing?
- A. the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- B. the Fair Housing Act
- C. the Americans with Disabilities Act
- D. the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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the Fair Housing Act
Did you know? Congress passed the Fair Housing Act a week after King's assassination.
9.Which organization did King, Ralph Abernathy and others found in Atlanta in 1957?
- A. the Congress of Racial Equality
- B. the NAACP
- C. the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- D. the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Did you know? The SCLC coordinated boycotts and marches across the South.
10.Which amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished the poll tax in federal elections?
- A. the Twenty-Sixth Amendment
- B. the Nineteenth Amendment
- C. the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
- D. the Fifteenth Amendment
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the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Did you know? The poll tax survived in state elections until Harper v. Virginia in 1966.
11.Which 1961 campaign rode interstate buses to test desegregation at southern terminals?
- A. the Silver Wars
- B. the Freedom Rides
- C. the Bus Boycotts
- D. the Ride for Voting
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the Freedom Rides
Did you know? The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961.
12.Whose 1955 open-casket funeral in Chicago drew 100,000 mourners?
- A. Fred Hampton
- B. Malcolm X
- C. Medgar Evers
- D. Emmett Till
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Emmett Till
Did you know? Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open casket.
13.Which 1836 House procedure automatically tabled antislavery petitions for eight years?
- A. the previous question
- B. the pocket veto
- C. the gag rule
- D. the two-thirds rule
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the gag rule
Did you know? Former president John Quincy Adams led the fight against the gag rule.
14.Which interracial Chicago-founded organization pioneered the 1961 Freedom Rides?
- A. the Congress of Racial Equality
- B. the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- C. the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- D. the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
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the Congress of Racial Equality
Did you know? CORE's Journey of Reconciliation pioneered the method in 1947.
15.Which 1936-1937 sit-down strike won recognition for the United Automobile Workers?
- A. the Memphis sanitation strike
- B. the Herrin massacre
- C. the Flint sit-down strike
- D. the steel strike of 1919
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the Flint sit-down strike
Did you know? Strikers occupied GM's Fisher Body plants for 44 days.
16.Which 1913 Washington suffrage parade marched the day before the presidential inauguration?
- A. the Woman Suffrage Procession
- B. the Candlelight March
- C. the Silent Sentinels
- D. the Suffrage Special
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the Woman Suffrage Procession
Did you know? Inez Milholland led the March 3, 1913 parade on a white horse.
17.Which anti-slavery society did Garrison and Arthur Tappan organize in Philadelphia in 1833?
- A. the Liberty Party
- B. the New England Anti-Slavery Society
- C. the American Anti-Slavery Society
- D. the American Colonization Society
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the American Anti-Slavery Society
Did you know? The 1833 society grew to some 250,000 members by 1838.
18.Which sharecropper's 1964 convention testimony broadcast the fight for Mississippi's delegates?
- A. Fannie Lou Hamer
- B. Daisy Bates
- C. Ella Baker
- D. Septima Clark
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Fannie Lou Hamer
Did you know? Hamer's televised speech moved millions watching the 1964 DNC hearings.
19.Which 1869-founded secret order peaked near 700,000 members?
- A. the American Federation of Labor
- B. the Knights of Labor
- C. the Grange
- D. the IWW
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the Knights of Labor
Did you know? Terence Powderly led the Knights at their mid-1880s peak.
20.Who ran for US president in 1872, decades before women could vote?
- A. Victoria Woodhull
- B. Shirley Chisholm
- C. Belva Lockwood
- D. Margaret Chase Smith
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Victoria Woodhull
Did you know? Woodhull's Equal Rights Party nominated Frederick Douglass for vice president.
21.Which political party, founded in 1840, ran abolitionist presidential candidates?
- A. the Know-Nothing Party
- B. the Whig Party
- C. the Liberty Party
- D. the Free Soil Party
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the Liberty Party
Did you know? The Liberty Party nominated James G. Birney twice.
22.Which 1909-founded organization, the NAACP, launched its magazine called what?
- A. Opportunity
- B. The Messenger
- C. The Crisis
- D. Freedomways
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The Crisis
Did you know? W.E.B. Du Bois edited The Crisis from 1910 to 1933.
23.Which 1912 Massachusetts textile strike gave the slogan "Bread and Roses"?
- A. the Paterson silk strike
- B. the coal strike of 1902
- C. the Homestead strike
- D. the Lawrence textile strike
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the Lawrence textile strike
Did you know? Some 20,000 workers struck at Lawrence's woolen mills in 1912.
24.Which newspaper, founded in 1868, was the National Woman Suffrage Association's weekly organ?
- A. The North Star
- B. The Revolution
- C. The Woman's Journal
- D. The Liberator
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The Revolution
Did you know? Stanton and Anthony's slogan: "Principle, not policy; justice, not favors."
25.Which 1842 Supreme Court case held federal law superior to state personal-liberty acts?
- A. Ableman v. Jones
- B. Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- C. Dred Scott v. Sandford
- D. Ableman v. Booth
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Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Did you know? Prigg v. Pennsylvania upheld the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act's supremacy.
26.Which NAACP field secretary was shot outside his Jackson, Mississippi home in June 1963?
- A. Vernon Dahmer
- B. Fred Shuttlesworth
- C. Martin Luther King Jr.
- D. Medgar Evers
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Medgar Evers
Did you know? Evers's murder came hours after a televised civil rights address.
27.Which union leader ran for president five times as the Socialist Party's candidate?
- A. Samuel Gompers
- B. Daniel De Leon
- C. Eugene V. Debs
- D. Norman Thomas
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Eugene V. Debs
Did you know? Debs received about a million votes from prison in 1920.
28.Which organizer led the Silent Sentinels' 1917 White House pickets?
- A. Alice Paul
- B. Inez Milholland
- C. Lucy Burns
- D. Carrie Chapman Catt
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Alice Paul
Did you know? Paul's National Woman's Party picketed the White House through 1917.
29.Which pair of Charleston-born sisters became abolition's most famous female orators?
- A. the Beecher sisters
- B. the Blackwell sisters
- C. the Grimké sisters
- D. the Alcott sisters
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the Grimké sisters
Did you know? Sarah and Angelina Grimké toured New England in the 1830s.
30.Which 1902 coal strike was settled by arbitration brokered at the White House?
- A. the coal strike of 1919
- B. the anthracite coal strike
- C. the UMWA strike of 1977
- D. the bituminous strike of 1897
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the anthracite coal strike
Did you know? Roosevelt's arbitration ended the 1902 anthracite strike in October.
31.Which 1890 merger united Stanton's and Stone's rival suffrage associations?
- A. the American Woman Suffrage Association
- B. the National Woman Suffrage Association
- C. the National American Woman Suffrage Association
- D. the Congressional Union
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the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Did you know? NAWSA's 1890 merger ended a two-decade split in the movement.
32.Which enslaved man shipped himself in a crate from Richmond to Philadelphia in 1849?
- A. William Still
- B. Ellen Craft
- C. Solomon Northup
- D. Henry "Box" Brown
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Henry "Box" Brown
Did you know? Brown's 27-hour crate journey made him a famed abolitionist speaker.
33.Which 1877 wildfire of strikes began on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad over wage cuts?
- A. the anthracite strike of 1902
- B. the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- C. the Pullman Strike
- D. the Homestead Strike
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the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Did you know? The 1877 strike left over a hundred dead across a dozen states.
34.Which organization did Carrie Chapman Catt found in 1920 to carry suffragists into civic life?
- A. the Women's Trade Union League
- B. the National Woman's Party
- C. the General Federation of Women's Clubs
- D. the League of Women Voters
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the League of Women Voters
Did you know? Catt's League of Women Voters continues nonpartisan voter education.
35.In which Virginia county did Nat Turner's 1831 rebellion take place?
- A. Southampton County
- B. Loudoun County
- C. Fairfax County
- D. Albemarle County
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Southampton County
Did you know? Turner's August 1831 uprising lasted about two days in Southampton County.
36.Which 1914 Colorado coal-field clash is a landmark of the American labor movement?
- A. the Ludlow Massacre
- B. the Herrin massacre
- C. the Centralia massacre
- D. the Evermart massacre
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the Ludlow Massacre
Did you know? National Guardsmen attacked the miners' tent colony, killing about two dozen.
37.Which organization did Lucy Stone found in 1869 to pursue state-level suffrage?
- A. the American Woman Suffrage Association
- B. the League of Women Voters
- C. the National Woman Suffrage Association
- D. the National Woman's Party
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the American Woman Suffrage Association
Did you know? Stone's AWSA worked from Boston, publishing The Woman's Journal.
38.Which Philadelphia businessman's records preserved over 800 Underground Railroad escapes?
- A. William Still
- B. Jermain Loguen
- C. Levi Coffin
- D. Thomas Garrett
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William Still
Did you know? Still's 1872 book, The Underground Railroad, preserved first-person accounts.
39.Which 1919 strike involving 350,000 steelworkers collapsed after four months?
- A. the coal strike of 1919
- B. the Seattle general strike
- C. the Boston police strike
- D. the Steel Strike of 1919
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the Steel Strike of 1919
Did you know? Judge Elbert Gary refused to negotiate with the strikers.
40.Which 1909-1910 New York shirtwaist strike mobilized 20,000 garment workers?
- A. the Lawrence strike
- B. the Uprising of the 20,000
- C. the Paterson strike
- D. the Uprising of the 5,000
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the Uprising of the 20,000
Did you know? Young immigrant strikers won most shirtwaist makers' demands.

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