The Great State of Minnesota
This constitutional office administers elections in Minnesota.
What is the Secretary of State?
Elected in 2020, this Latina Congresswoman is the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
This city has the largest Hmong population per capita in the United States.
What is St. Paul?
In 2019, the U.S. Department of State issued more than 20 million of this type of document whose design now includes quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and astronaut Ellison Onizuka.
What is a U.S. Passport?
This person is the first Somali American to serve in the United States House of Representatives.
Who is Representative Ilhan Omar?
The new Great Seal of the State of Minnesota features several elements of official Minnesota culture, including the common loon (state bird), the north star (state motto), and this, the official state grain.
What is wild rice?
Minnesota’s Latino population is the ___ largest demographic group in the state according to the US census.
What is third?
Roughly ___ in 100 Minnesotans have Hmong heritage.
What is one?
The 24th Amendment prohibited them and Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections ruled them unconstitutional.
What are poll taxes?
He was the first Somali American elected to the Minnesota Senate.
Who is Senator Omar Fateh?
Minnesota has more of this geographic feature than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined.
What is shoreline?
This Latina became the first Hispanic woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Justice Sonia Sotomayor?
This act passed in 2000 gave tens of thousands of Hmong and ethnic Laotians the right to vote.
What is the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000?
This city was the site of the first Women's Rights Convention that is said to have sparked the Suffragette Movement.
What is Seneca Falls?
The Twin Cities has the largest Somali Diaspora population in the United States, totaling approximately ______ people.
What is 68,000?
Minnesota had the highest voter turnout in 2020, with this percent of eligible voters casting ballots in the General Election.
What is 79.98%?
This politician was the first Mexican-American elected to the Minneapolis City Council.
Who is Alondra Cano?
This politician was the first Hmong-American elected to the Minneapolis City Council.
Who is Blong Yang?
First used back in the 1800s, and coming from the Dutch term "free booter," this commonly used phrase refers to a political tactic commonly used “on the floor” in Congress to stall.
What is a filibuster?
In 2022, __ Somali Americans ran for legislative seats across the U.S.
What is eleven?
With 9.5 miles of pathway, this is the world’s largest network of enclosed, second-level bridges in the world.
What is the Minneapolis Skyway Network?
This influential Latino activist co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) union in 1962.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This official was the first Hmong American elected to public office (school board) in the Metro.
Who is Choua Lee?
The first televised U.S. presidential debate broadcast from Chicago's CBS Studios featured these two candidates.
Who are John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon?
Elected in 2019 in _________, Nadia Mohamed became the first Somali American mayor in the country.
What is St. Louis Park?