Hoosier History Flashcards
(147 cards)
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Why are these humans called “prehistoric people”?
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Because they left no written language
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Which of the following is the correct order for the period of prehistoric people?
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Paleo-Indiana,Archaic,Woodland,Mississippian
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In which period did prehistoric people began building mound?
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Woodland
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Which of the following period did they start farming?
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Mississippian
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Which of the following was the largest Mississippian village in Indiana?
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Angle Mounds
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Which Indian tribes settled in Indiana?
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The Miami and The Inuit
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The earliest European settlers in Indiana came from which country?
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France
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What was the name of the Miami village where the tribal council meet?
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Kekionga
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Which of the following was the staple of the Miami and Potawatomi diet?
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Corn
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Which of the following was NOT another source of the Miami and Potawatomi?
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Oysters
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Which of the following jobs did only women of the tribe do?
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Tend the fields
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The Potawatomi played a version of what modern game?
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Lacrosse
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Who is the first known European explore to reach Indiana?
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De La Salle
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What was the relationship between the French and the Indians based on?
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Fur trade
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Children with French fathers and Indian mothers were called what?
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Métis
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What is sometimes known as “Indiana’a first war”?
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Vincennes expedition against the Chickasaws
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Which of the following European goods did local Indians adopt?
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Weapons,woven cloth, and brass tools
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Which of the following was NOT a negative brought to the Indians by the Europeans?
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Rats
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What conflict in Europe was known as the French and Indian War in America?
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The Seven Years’ War
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Who won the French and Indian War?
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The British
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The Indian Chief led a rebellion against the British in 1763?
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Pontiac
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What was the Proclamation of 1763?
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It made American colonization past the Appalachian Mountains illegal
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What was the Quebec Act of 1774?
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It made the territory north of Ohio part of Quebec
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Who was the leader of the American forces in the “Revolution in the West”?
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George Rogers Clark
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Who was the British leader of the "Revolution in the West"?
Henry Hamilton
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Which of the following was NOT an obstacle to the settlement of the Northwest Territory?
How to pay Native Americans for the land
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How did the Indians respond to white settlers in the Northwest Territory?
They began raiding into Kentucky and Ohio
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What was the Miami Confederacy?
A collection of tribes in the Northwest
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What was the name of the Miami chief that pushed back invasions from white settlers?
Little Turtle
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When did the first humans arrive in Indiana?
At the end of the Ice Age
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What was the name of the first battle that turned the tide in favor of the white settlers?
The Battle of Fallen Timbers
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What treaty, signed in 1795, gave the United States much of Ohio and a small part of Indiana?
The Treaty of Greenville
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What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
It divided the Northwest Territory into plots of land for settlers.
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What was the Land Ordinance of 1787?
It created one government over all the Northwest Territory and It called for the eventual division of the Northwest Territory into smaller states
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Why was the Northwest Ordinance controversial?
It prohibited slavery in the territory.
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Who served as governor of Indiana territory in the early 19th century and signed several treaties with local Indiana groups?
William Henry Harrison
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Which of the following was NOT one of the goals of missionaries in the Indiana Territory?
To remove Native Americans from their land.
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Which of these men was an important Native American religious leader who promoted spiritual and cultural resistance to settlers?
Tenskwatawa
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Which of the following men became one of the most respected Native American war chiefs in history?
Tecumseh
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What message did Tecumseh spread to the Native American groups in the Indiana Territory?
That the land belonged to all the Indians, not just one group.
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How did Little Turtle react to Tecumseh's message?
He did not agree, and wanted to keep his treaties with the settlers.
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With whom did Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa try to form an alliance against the settlers?
The British
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What battle between the Indian forces and forces under Harrison resulted in an American victory?
Tippecanoe
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How did most Native Americans respond to the war of 1812?
They joined the British
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How did the Miami respond to the outbreak of war?
They stayed neutral
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What battle was a major turning point for the Americans against the British?
Lake Eerie
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What was the consequence of the War of 1812 for Native Americans?
Native American resistance to settlement ended.
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Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the War of 1812 for settlers?
It stopped white settlers from moving into Indiana.
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What name was often used by Native Americans to describe white settlers?
"Long knives"
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What was the most controversial issue in the Indiana Territory before becoming a state?
Slavery
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How did slavery supporters get around the anti-slavery article in the Northwest Ordinance?
They classified slaves as "indentured servants".
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Which of the following were the main arguments against slavery in Indiana?
White laborers couldn't compete against slave labor and White settlers did not want free slaves to settle near them.
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In what year did Indiana become a state?
1816
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The symbol came to represent the Indiana Constitutional Convention?
The Constitutional Elm
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From which region did most of Indiana's settlers come?
The southern states
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Which of these statements best describes the settlers that came to Indiana from the South?
They were poor farmers used to making life on the farm and They were freed or escaped slaves looking to make a home.
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Which region of Indiana was settled first?
The south
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Which region of Indisna was settled last,
The North
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Most Indiana settlers were:
Families
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Families that moved to Indiana were:
Large and younge
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The most common shelter built by people settling on the frontier were:
Log cabins
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After settlement, what was the majority focus of daily life for pioneers?
Finding food
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How did the increase of settlers affect animal life on Indiana?
Wild animals began to disappear as settlement increased.
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What was the first crop planted by settlers?
Corn
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Most pioneers relied on what when they became sick?
Home remedies
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The first farms and towns in Indiana were located near what?
Rivers
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How did pioneers move their goods from their homes to the market?
Flatboat on the rivers
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What 19th century invention made it easier to ship goods up and down rivers?
The steamboat
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The major roads that crossed Indiana were:
The National Road and The Michigan Road
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Many of the workers on the Wabash and Eerie Canal were what nationality?
Irish
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Most pioneers in Indiana came from what religious background?
Protestantism
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How did Evangelical Protestants spread their ideas on the frontier?
The circuit rider
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What popular Protestant religious ever involved preaching,singing, as well as socializing in the community?
Camp meetings
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Which of the following was NOT a religious group found in Indiana during the pioneer days?
Hindus
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What movement grew among Protestants in Indiana against the consumption of alcohol in the early 1800's?
The temperance movement
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Aside from alcohol, what other movement were Evangelical Protestants involved in during the pioneer days?
The anti-slavery movement
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Which group (among white residents) was most involved in running the Underground Railroad in Indiana?
Quakers
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Until the 1840's, Indiana children received most of their education from:
Their families
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What was the name of the utopian settlement in southwest Indiana in which people gave up all private property and remained celibate?
New Harmony
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What was the name of the utopian group in Indiana that believed in communal property, the rejection of traditional values, and equality among men and women?
The Owenities
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Which president oversaw the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Andrew Jackson
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What name was given to the forced removal of more than 800 Potawatomi from Indiana to Kansas?
The Trail of Death
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What Indiana politician ran for president with the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too"?
William Henry Harrison
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Which of the following Indiana residents proposed an amendment granting married women the right to own property?
Robert Dale Owen
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Which group strongly opposed slavery in Indiana?
Quakers
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What was the purpose of Article XIII in the Indiana Constitution of 1851?
To exclude African Americans from settling in Indiana.
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What did most Hoosier before the Civil War see as the "solution" to Africans living in the United States?
Sending Africa to colonize Liberia in Africa.
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What decision was made in Barkshire v. State?
That Article XIII was constitutional
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Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850.
Missouri would be a slave state
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
It made it illegal to assist an escaping slave, and It gave more power to slave catchers in the North
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What name was given to slavery on the South?
The peculiar institution
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What was the name of the doctrine that allowed people in each territory to decide about slavery?
Popular sovereignty
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What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
That African Americans were not citizens and That Congress could not issue legislation
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Which abolitionist led a raid on Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
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Who was president durning the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
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The president during the Civil War belonged to what political party?
Republican
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The president durning the Civil War was from what state?
Indiana
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Who did Indiana side with durning the Civil War?
The Union
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What caused the most deaths among Indiana-and American- soldiers during the war?
Disease and poor sanitation
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Most soldiers were:
Young, single men
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Women contributed to the war effort in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
Fighting in all-female troops
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How did Hoosier opinion of the war changed as it went on?
People began to question if the war was necessary.
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What was the platform of the Peace Democrats?
Peace by returning to the slave/free structure before the war.
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How did the Peace Democrats view slaves?
Inferior to white citizens
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Who was Indiana's governor during the war?
Oliver P. Morton
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How did Indiana's governor and the moderate Republicans feel about emancipating slaves?
They were against emancipation.
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How did Hoosier soldiers feel about emancipation?
They were in favor of emancipation
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The primary opponents to the governor and the moderate Republican were:
The Butternuts and The Melons
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How did southern Hoosiers react to the invasion of the states by Confederate General John Hut Morgan?
They fought back against Morgan's army.
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What ended the Civil War?
The Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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The best source of descriptions of life during the Civil War are:
Soldiers' letters
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What issue divided Indiana after the Civil War?
Equal rights for African Americans
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What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
Guaranteed the right of black man to vote
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What was the name of Indiana's Democratic governor elected during Reconstruction?
Thomas A. Hendricks
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How did the Democrats feel about Radical Reconstruction?
They opposed it
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How did the view of the Civil War change after it ended?
People romanticized the war.
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Many came to believe that the central cause of the Civil War was not _________ but instead, the real cause was _________.
Slavery, states' rights
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How many versions of the KKK have there been over the course of U.S History?
Three
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When was the first KKK formed?
During Reconstruction
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What was the goal of the first KKK
To end Reconstruction and To deny freedom to former slaves
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When was the second KKK
During the 1920's
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What was the goal of the second KKK?
To bring back white Christian, patriotic values
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When was the third KKK prominent?
During the 1960's
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What was the goal of the third KKK?
To oppose the Civil Rights Act.
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Which of the following KKK movement was the most popular in Indiana
Two
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Where did the KKK begin?
The South
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According to a historian, what portion of Indiana's male population joined the second KKK movement?
One-fourth
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Why did the KKK appeal to Hoosiers in the 1920's?
Strong religious belief
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What other group, aside from African Americans, was attacked by the KKK in the 1920's.
Catholics
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The KKK believed that the only true Americans were:
White,Protestant, American born
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The Indiana KKK's primary method of spreading their ideas was through:
Intimidation
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In the 1920's, the KKK fought for:
Anti-immigration laws
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Which of the following groups was most responsible for persuading people to join the KKK?
Protestant Ministers
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Who was the Grand Dragon of Indiana's KKK,
D.C Stephenson
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What caused many to leave the Indiana KKK?
Klan leader D.C Stephenson was arrested
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Which of the following groups were the most outspoken in their protest of the KKK?
Students at Noter Dame
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With which political party was the KKK most popular?
Republicans
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Why did black Hoosiers began leaving the Republican Party?
The party's association with the KKK
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What role did women plan in the KKK?
Thousands independently joined the KKK
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What was the burning cross of the KKK meant to represent?
Christ as the light of the world, Purification by Fire, The beacon of truth
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Why did the KKK wear white robes?
To represent the purity of the white race.
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Why did members of the KKK wear masks?
To hide their identities and to catch criminals
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What was the Wright Bone Dry Law?
It made it illegal to have empty bottles that used to contain alcohol
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How did the KKK react to the Bone Dry Law?
They promoted
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What was the name of the Indiana Klan newspaper?
The Fiery Cross
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What was the "Hoosier rube thesis"?
The Hoosier members were ignorant and easily manipulated by outsiders.
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Until the 20th century, how did people in discuss the KKK?
Rarely, and with embarrassment
