Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Even where they are numerically a majority or a sizable minority, Mexican Americans are underrepresented politically.
2. Bilingualism in schools is now so widespread as to mark a significant change in the learning of Mexican-origin children.
3. Mexican Americans have been no more successful than African Americans and Native Americans in their location in the stratification system.
4. Discrimination against Mexican Americans is no longer fueled by threats, but primarily by inertia from the past.
5. The G.I. Forum was created in order to advocate the rights of Chicano war veterans.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
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Which of the following reasons best explains
the dominance of the Democratic Party in Texas and other southern states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? a) The Republican Party was discredited in the eyes of most native white Texans because of its leadership role in American national government during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. b) The Democratic Party was exceedingly popular among southerners because of the personal popularity of Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt. c) The Republican Party was discredited in the eyes of most southerners because the Republican Party supported the poll tax and the white primary, devices that were used to keep minorities and poor persons of all races from voting. d) Average personal incomes in the South were relatively low and the Democratic Party draws its greatest support from low- and middle-income voters. e) Former slaves and their families were given the right to vote after the Civil War and they tended support the Democratic Party.
Situational ethics suggests that it is ethical to treat humans in different ways
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
How did President Johnson respond to the Bloody Sunday event of 1965?
a) He allowed Governor George Wallace to cancel the march. b) He jailed SNCC chairman John Lewis. c) He did not take any action at all. d) He called up the National Guard to protect the marchers.
The usual rule in statistics that a study cannot find the null hypothesis to be true?one can only reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? is simply uninformative and such studies tend not to be published. Why is this a problem in the field of
psychology and other behavioral sciences? A) Much work could be avoided if people knew which interventions had not worked. B) Ideas may be assumed to be true only because a few studies found results supporting them while many more, unreported, had not. C) Power and effect size considerations are being ignored. D) Both A and B are correct.