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100

______________________________ was drafted in the Spring of 1969 and was intended to serve as a blueprint for the evolution of Chicano Education.

El Plan de Santa Barbara

100

When was the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) signed into law?

a. 1986                                                            
b. 1996
c. 2005                                                            
d. 1977

1986

100

What did the “Mendez vs Westminster School District” court decision of 1947 do?

a. Bolstered Voting Rights                                
b. Changed immigration policy
c. Granted Mexicans American Citizenship      
d. Desegregated school for Mexican Children

Desegregated school for Mexican Children

100

Which Tejana Mexicana journalist and community activist is famed for openly defying the Texas Rangers and keeping them from entering the offices of El Progreso Newspaper in 1914?

a. Jovita Idar                                                       b. Teresa Villarreal
c. Gloria Arellanes                                            
d. Sara Estela Ramirez.         

Jovita Idar

100

Which organization, formed in Texas in 1929, is prominent for using “American” iconography in their logo?

a. the United Farm Workers                                
b. League of United Latin American Citizens
c. United Mexican American Students                
d. La Alianza de los Mercedes  

League of United Latin American Citizens

200

Known for editing the anthology “A Bridge Called my Back”, this author proposes the concept of “Queer Aztlan” as a conceptual and theoretical homeland that can embrace all people. Who is this theorist?

a. Gloria Anzaldua                                            
b. Ana Castillo
c. Adelaida Del Castillo                                      
d. Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga

200

The end of the Bracero Program is named as a key event in the evolution of the Farm Worker Movement. When did the program end?

a. 1964                                                                 b. 1960
c. 1963                                                                 d. 1965

1964

200

The Young Chicanos for Community Action, most often referred to as the _______________________, because of their distinctive headgear, shifted their focus to include community response to police brutality, and later modeled their platform after the Black Panther Party’s 10-point program.

Brown Berets

200

The Newspaper, Regeneracion, was founded by ____________________________ and his brothers and served as the official organ of the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) which sought the overthrow of the Porfirio Diaz government in the early 1900s.

Ricardo Flores Magon

200

Persecuted Mexican Liberal Activists fled to the United States and formed which Mexican activist organization from abroad in 1904?

a. El Congreso Mexicanista                                
b. Partido Liberal Mexicano
c. Order of the Sons of America                        
d. LULAC

Partido Liberal Mexicano

300

The ________________________________ of 1829, named after Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican President (was also the second Mexican President), prohibited slavery in most of Mexico, eventually leading to full abolition by 1837.

"Guerrero Decree" named after Vicente Guerrero

300

The North American Free Trade Agreement, a trilateral economic pact signed by the heads of state of the U.S. Mexico, and Canada went into effect which year?

a. 1965                                                            
b. 1986
c. 1996                                                              
d. 1994

1994

300

The _____________________________ was formed in 1911 as a volunteer unit during the Mexican Revolution and subsequently organized a unit on the U.S. side of the border in Laredo, TX in 1913. Leonor Villegas de Magnon and many other veterans who were a part of the constitutionalist army would later petition the Mexican Ministry of Defense for status as veterans of the Mexican Revolution.

Cruz Blanca, or Cruz Blanca Neutral

300

Among one of the prominent revolutionary poets of the early 1900s, _____________________________ was an Educator and Activist born in Coahuila, Mexico who moved to Laredo, TX to accept a teaching position, and later became an active member of the PLM while assisting with publishing the literary periodicals “La Corregidora” and “Aurora”.

Sara Estela Ramirez

300

Which Theater Group was formed by Luis Valdez in the 1960s?    

a. Teatro del Piojo                                            
b. Teatro Nacional de Aztlan
c. Teatro Campesino                                        
d. Teatro del Movimiento   

Teatro Campesino

400

Widely seen as a period of peace that ushers in an era of modernization and industrial capitalism, the _______________________________ also created an environment where large haciendas swallowed up entire villages, where farmers were forced to become wage workers, where 80 percent of the population was illiterate, and where only one in two newborns made it past their first birthday.

Porfiriato

400

___________________________________ was a program enacted along the Tijuana-San Ysidro entry point along the U.S.-Mexico border in 1994 which leads to the fortification of the pre-existing Border Fence.

Operation Gatekeeper

400

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program was enacted as an Executive Order under the Obama Administration after activist pressure and the occupation of his election campaign offices was organized by undocumented youth activists. Which year was the program introduced?

a. 2001                                                               b. 2012  
c. 2006                                                               d. 2010

2012

400

Who was the only known incumbent U.S. President to eat a tamale without removing the corn husk wrapper, causing him to nearly choke?
a. Richard Nixon                                                    b. Gerald Ford
c. George W. Bush                                                 d. Donald Trump

Gerald Ford

400

San Antonio-born Labor Activist, Emma Tenayuca was elected to the Executive Committee for the ___________________________ in 1937. The first known instance in which a Mexican American woman is elected to a top position within a national organization.

Workers Alliance of America, or Workers Alliance

500

What program, enacted after the start of the Great Depression, led to the deportation of more than a million Mexican-origin people, including U.S. citizens in the 1930s?

a. The Mexican Repatriation Program                  
b. Immigration Reform and Control Act
c. H.R. 4437                                                         d. Operation Return to Sender

The Mexican Repatriation Program  

500

The ____________________________ united with the Teamsters Union to support a slate of five candidates all of whom won the election in Crystal City, TX in 1963.

Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations (PASO), or PASO

500

_____________________________ was a newspaper printed initially in Spanish, later adding an English edition, that was edited by Bill Esher and also featured the work of Cartoonist Andy Zermeno. The paper was an essential communications component for the UFWOC as it relayed information and offered updates on the Delano strike and National Table Grape Boycott activities.

El Malcriado

500

___________________________ was a contemporary of Jovita Idar and worked as a teacher, political activist, and journalist. Her memoir entitled, “La Rebelde”, which documents her experiences during the Mexican Revolution, was posthumously published in 1994, nearly forty years after her passing.

Leonor Villegas de Magnon

500

The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) which was spearheaded by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilberto Padilla, among other originated in what year?

a. 1962                                                                 b. 1966
c. 1965                                                               d. 1968

1962

600

The ______________________________ , which formed in Albuquerque, N.M. in 1980, is among one of the oldest Environmental Justice organizations in the U.S.

Southwest Organizing Project, or SWOP

600

The ______________________________ court case in 1954 was the first case presented by Mexican Americans in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hernandez vs Texas

600

Who was the first person of “Hispanic” ancestry to run for U.S. President during the 1980 U.S. Presidential Election?

a. Bill Richardson                                                
b. Ben Fernandez
c. Manuel Lujan                                                   d. Fernando Vega  

Ben Fernandez

600

Anti-Immigrant House Resolution 4437 passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in December 2005, but ultimately failed due to political pressure and mass demonstration in the spring of 2006. Who was the bill’s main sponsor?

a. Jim Sensenbrenner                                           b. Pete Wilson
c. Ronald Reagan                                                 d. Diane Feinstein

Jim Sensenbrenner

600

The ___________________________________ , cofounded by veteran activists and labor organizers Soledad “Chole” Alatorre and Bert Corona in 1968, promoted immigrant and labor rights under the banner “Somos un Pueblo sin Fronteras” (We are a Community without Borders).

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