Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Abolitionist pressures to free slaves created a sense of threat in both the South and North.
2. The Anglo-Saxon core has remained impervious to other cultures.
3. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Africans were enslaved and Native Americans conquered because their freedom posed a threat to the Anglo-Saxon core.
4. White ethnic populations that adopted the Anglo-Saxon core did not fare any better than either African Americans, Native Americans, or Mexican Americans.
5. The disproportionate representation of Anglo-Saxon descendants in elite positions has served to reinforce Anglo-Saxon beliefs, cultural climate, and institutional policies in American society.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
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