Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Since the Philippine Islands were a territory of the United States in the 1920s, they were exempt from the 1917 Immigration Act and the 1924 National Origins Act.
2. In response to legal challenges in Hirabayashi v. United States (1943) and Korematsu v. United States (1944), the U.S. Supreme Court repealed Executive Order 9066.
3. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was passed by Congress in order to suspend the civil rights of Asian Americans.
4. Today, as in the early decades of this century, the white population perceives Asian Americans as a threat to white workers.
5. Asian Americans are highly visible in local, state, and national political offices.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE
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Families of the 1950's are sometimes seen as a prototype of the American family in the twentieth century. A review of the rates of marriage, divorce, and fertility shows
a. this image is accurate. b. this image is inaccurate because the fifties are out of sync with the general trends over the century. c. this image is less accurate for white families as it is for African American families. d. this image is accurate for parent-child relationships but not for gender relationships.
Presbyopia is the normative age-related loss of the ability to focus on nearby objects.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The building of mosques in the United States has:
a. been shown to be correlated to more acts of terrorism. b. provided more interfaith centers for communities at large. c. led to improved relations between Arabs and whites. d. encountered community resistance in recent years.
Robert Merton contrasted Parsons because Merton favored
a. master conceptual schema. b. middle-range theory. c. research oriented work. d. theory un-connected to research.