Questions on Anna Jarvis: Mother's Day

Name this history figure you just learned about who started Mother’s Day in the USA

Name the group Anna Jarvis organized to gather former Union and Confederate soldiers to promote reconciliation

Mother’s Day typically lands on which date?

• 2nd week of May

• 2nd Sunday of May

• 2nd week of June

• 2nd Sunday of June

What did Anna Jarvis use to do before forming her groups and rallying for Mother’s Day?

• nurse

• politician

• cared for the troops during the Civil War

• preacher

The first local Mother’s Day memorial took place where?

• Soup Kitchen

• Washington DC

• United Methodist Church

•  St. Andrews Methodist Church

When did Anna Jarvis trademark the phrase “Mother’s Day?”

• 1912

• 1914

• 1962

When did Woodrow Wilson sign the federal bill designating 2nd Sun. of May as Mother’s Day?

• 1912

• 1914

• 1962

How did Anna Jarvis feel about Hallmark and other corporate companies advertising and selling Mother’s Day products?

Name the typical flower associated with this holiday?

When did St Andrew Methodist Church dedicate its church as the Mother’s Day shrine?

• 1912

• 1914

• 1962