States and cities across the U.S. have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, take this quiz to see how much you know about why and how this is happening!
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When was the idea to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day first introduced?
1977
1990
1880
1945
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Which state was the first to replace Columbus Day with a day honoring Native Americans?
California
South Dakota
North Dakota
Wisconsin
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Which city was the first to place Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day?
Berkeley, California
Boston, Massachusetts
Arlington, Virginia
Atlanta, Georgia
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True or False: 1992 was an especially important year for the Native American activist movement because it marked the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus landing in the Americas.
True
False
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Which president was the first to introduce the idea of a day honoring Christopher Columbus?
Thomas Jefferson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Benjamin Harrison
Jimmy Carter
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Under which president was the first federal observance of Columbus Day?
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Which state celebrates Discoverer's Day instead of Columbus Day?
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Hawaii
Kansas
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in 2019, there was a wave of states adopting Indigenous Peoples' Day as a holiday. How many states did so?
8 states
6 states
23 states
3 states
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True or False: In 2019, Washington D.C.,-- which is partly named after Christopher Columbus-- temporarily changed the name of Columbus to Indigenous Peoples' Day?
True
False
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When did the first celebration of Columbus Day occur?
1792
1776
1800
1882