Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. While a hate crime is not exclusively a federal offense, the federal government can, and does, investigate and prosecute hate crimes as civil rights violations.
2. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Klan chapters grew from 72 in 2014 to 190 in 2015.
3. Anti-immigrant hate groups are the most extreme of the hundreds of nativist and vigilante groups that have proliferated since the late 1990s, when anti-immigration xenophobia began to rise to levels not seen in the United States since the 1920s.
4. White nationalists believe that they get to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore, and they don't think they should have to pay taxes.
5. In 1998, James Byrd Jr., an African American man, was tied to a truck by white supremacists and then dragged and decapitated.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True

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