Misc 1
Who employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers?
Cesar Chavez
True or False: The Taino people are extinct.
False: DNA evidence has proven otherwise.
How many servicemen were arrested for the wave of attacks against Latinos in 1943?
Zero
Name at least 3 ways that enslaved people resisted their enslavement.
Running away to freedom, rebellions, breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, and committing acts of arson and sabotage.
What group of immigrants played a major role in building the transcontinental railroad? Name at least two challenges they faced while doing so.
Chinese workers faced many challenges, including low wages, dangerous conditions, and segregation
Who helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike?
Dolores Huerta
What was the goal of Native American boarding schools?
To erase Native American cultures/Assimilate Native Americans into white culture.
Name at least 2 specific things that DACA provides recipients?
Permission to remain in the country, work permits, health insurance from their employers, higher education, drive legally
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendement
Who was the last monarch of Hawaii
Queen Liliuokalani
Who was the teacher who helped organize students to walkout of East LA schools?
Sal Castro
True or False: The US ended it's assimilation policies towards Native Americans in the 1970s.
True
True or False: As a result of the Mexican-American war, Mexicans in the US were legally considered "white".
True
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Who was the leader of the Filipino insurrection and was at first instructed to establish an interim government for the islands?
Emilio Aguinaldo
Who led large-scale, nonviolent protests against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who coined the phrase “Black Power” and had an approach to civil rights that was increasingly militant.
Stokely Carmichael
What are 3 reasons why the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztec?
Better weaponry, disease, and alliances with other tribes.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave African American men the right to vote.
Why were Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans imprisoned after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
They were imprisoned solely because of their ancestry.
Who believed that Black people should practice self-defense in response to white racial violence. He claimed that violence was a right, but he never advocated for initiating violence.
Malcolm X
What government agency provided assistance (food, education, and legal aid) to newly freed African Americans?
Freedmen's Bureau
What led to the East LA walkouts?
Schools did not offer equal educational opportunities for Mexican American students and did not honor those students’ identities and culture.
Name two push factors that played a role in the Great Migration.
and
Name two pull factors that played a role in the Great Migration.
Push Factors: Racial violence and Jim Crow Laws
Pull Factors: Better economic opportunities and more racial tolerance.
What led to a massive influx of Vietnamese immigrants in the 1970s?
Refugees could have been persecuted by the new Vietnamese communist government. After their arrival, more Vietnamese refugees came to the United States seeking protection.