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# wrong text: Sorry, that's incorrect. # right text: That's correct! # social text incomplete: How well do you know America’s barrier-breaking leaders? Test yourself and share your results. # social text complete: How well do you know America’s barrier-breaking leaders? I took the quiz and got a {score} out of {total_questions} correct! Test yourself and share your results. ? Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland share the recognition for being the first Native American women to do what? - Serve in the U.S. Senate + Serve in the U.S. House of Representatives - Serve in a presidential Cabinet - Serve as state governors ! On Jan. 3, 2019, Sharice Davids, a representative from Kansas and member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, and Deb Haaland, a representative from New Mexico and member of the Laguna Pueblo, were sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first Native American women to serve in Congress. In addition, Haaland made history in March when she became the first Native American to lead a Cabinet-level agency, as secretary of the interior. ? George Ariyoshi of Hawaii became the country’s first Asian American governor in 1974. Decades later, South Carolina elected the first female Asian American governor. Who was it? + Nikki Haley - Elaine Chao - Tammy Duckworth - Kamala Harris ! Nimrata Nikki Haley, a daughter of Indian immigrants, served as South Carolina’s governor from 2011 to 2017. She is the nation’s first—and, so far, only—Asian American woman to serve as a state governor. ? In what year did Joseph Hayne Rainey and Hiram Rhodes Revels become the first Black Americans to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, respectively? - 1966 - 1792 - 2004 + 1870 ! In early 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels of Mississippi became the United States’ first Black senator. In December of that year, Joseph Hayne Rainey of South Carolina was sworn in as the first Black member of the House. ? Which of the following states has NOT had a Hispanic governor? - New Mexico - Florida + Texas - Arizona ! Texas has never had a Hispanic governor. ? Who was the first Asian American to serve in the U.S. Congress? - Hiram Fong + Dalip Singh Saund - Daniel Inouye - Andrew Yang ! Born in India, Dalip Singh Saund immigrated to the United States in 1920 to attend the University of California, Berkeley. After many years in local politics, Saund became the first Asian American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, in 1956. ? Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation, secured three firsts. He was the first Native American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and then the first to serve in the U.S. Senate. What was his third notable office? - Attorney general + Vice president - U.S. Supreme Court justice - Ambassador ! After more than three decades as a member of Congress, Curtis became Herbert Hoover’s running mate in the 1928 presidential race. Their election made Curtis our nation’s first and only Native American vice president. ? Who is the first and only Latina to serve in the U.S. Senate? + Catherine Cortez Masto - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Sonia Sotomayor - Susana Martinez ! Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is the first and only Latina to serve in Congress’ upper chamber. She has served since 2017. ? How many Black justices have served on the U.S. Supreme Court? - 0 - 1 + 2 - 3 ! Of the 115 justices who have served on the Supreme Court since its establishment in 1790, two have been Black. Thurgood Marshall became the first in 1967, after he was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Upon Marshall’s retirement from the court in 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated another Black American, Clarence Thomas, to fill the vacancy. Thomas remains on the court today.