Chapter 4 Self Assessment

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. A widely accepted, and ironic, explanation for the loss of land owned by Mexican Americans was that many White people felt justified in taking Mexican land because many Mexican governors did the same thing against American Indians:

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. A 2014 poll conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health and NPR, showed that:

Most Cuban Americans are doing well and prospering in this country correct incorrect

Many recent immigrants are only able to find work in the lowest paying sectors of the labor market. correct incorrect

Many recent immigrants feel that the opening of U.S. relations with Cuba will have negative consequences for them correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Research has shown that Latinx people receive harsher treatment in arrests, pretrial proceedings and sentencing than White people, even when they were charged with the same offense.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Some research shows that Hispanic/Latinx men are:

More likely to be stopped and searched than Black American people correct incorrect

Hispanic/Latinx men are less likely to be released on their own recognizance correct incorrect

Hispanic/Latinx men were more likely to have a higher bail than Black American or White people correct incorrect

All the above correct incorrect

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. In Puerto Rico,

The per capita income is generally lower than most states correct incorrect

All households in Puerto Rico receive food stamps correct incorrect

The country has no viable economy correct incorrect

It has finally achieved a level of autonomy in that the U.S. has relinquished control over its oversight. correct incorrect