Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. John F. Kennedy was the first Irish-origin president in America.
2. The Catholic school system was created as a way to resist the public schools' heavy-handed efforts to "Americanize" the Irish.
3. Today, Italian Americans are involved in the political arena approximately proportionate to their numbers in the general population.
4. The Catholic school system immediately opened its doors to southern Italians when they had problems in the public schools.
5. Today, Jews have very few negative beliefs directed at them.
1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE
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