Minority Groups in the United States example #33565

18 February 2023
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Competition for jobs produced physical violence and discrimination
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Asian Americans
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Which act helped the American Indians in keeping their burial land protected?
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Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
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Immigrants have greatly affected many aspects of American culture, including food.
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T
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All of the following acts have had an impact on Asian Americans except the
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Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
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In the 1900s, Asian immigrants mainly settled in the Southwest, while Hispanics settled along the east coast.
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F
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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigrants from predominantly Catholic countries faced open discrimination at the hands of the American-born white Protestant majority.
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T
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The Hispanic population only includes immigrants from Mexico.
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F
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The conflict between ideals and actions has been part of the American experience since the arrival of the white settlers on the North American continent in the 1500s.
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T
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Asian Americans includes people of Filipino ancestry.
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T
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Immigrants in the 1900s were mainly from
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Southern and Eastern Europe
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White ethnics
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White ethnics is a collective reference to immigrants from the predominately Catholic countries of Ireland, Italy, France, Poland, and Greece.
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What were the effects of immigration on the American culture's economic life?
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Development of businesses, marketing plans, media focus, TV and radio stations
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Which minority group is made up with tribes who each have different cultures and history?
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American Indians
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was developed to help give civil rights to the Asian Americans.
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F
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Immigration effected our media because they began to bring more knowledge and history of the groups who were immigrating to the public.
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T
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The Asian Americans settled usually in which location?
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West coast
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Which group immigrated to the Southwest?
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Hispanics
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Native Americans have always been able to obtain jobs.
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F
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__________ have been called a "model minority," but many resent the label.
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Asian Americans
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Give the influences done by immigration on the American culture's social life.
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Food, language, education, and religion