Midterm Questions

Question 1

True or False: Between 1820-1850 most immigrants into the U.S. were for Southern Europe?

Answer 1

FALSE

Question 2

What long term era did the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court decision usher in?

Answer 2

Jim Crow ERA

Question 3

The United States and many other nations refer to undocumented immigrants as “illegal “ aliens?

Answer 3

FALSE-United states it’s the only country

Question 4

Puerto Rico became a common wealth country in:

Answer 4

1952

Question 5

What is redlining anyhow has it affected housing and other types of discrimination other cities?

Answer 5

Institutional racism

Question 6

TURE OR FALSEThe mormons exclusives utilize the 14th Amendment to the United States Constution in their Supreme Court litigation concerning their religious rights?

Answer 6

False

Question 7

The eventual an disappearance of the SHAKERS was due to?

Answer 7

Celibacy

Question 8

True or False: In 1972 Supreme Court of Wisconsin v. Yolder Chief Justice warren Burger sait it mandatory fir all U.S. school children to complete the 12th grade?

Answer 8

FALSE

Question 9

What was the historic Supreme Court decision in1857 that many attribute to helping start the civil warren 1861?

Answer 9

DREAD SCOTT

Question 10

What’s the name if the oldest federal agency I the U.S. history that deals with other native Americans?

Answer 10

Beruo of Indian Affairs

Question 11

Foemr President Andrew Jackson’s mostly known for ?

Answer 11

The Indian Removal Act.

Question 12

True or false: The federal reservation system for Native Americans was intended to preserve and maintain indegiousness culture through assimilation.

Answer 12

FALSE

Question 13

FILL IN: What is the name given to he forced migrations of several Indian tribes in the 1800s from Florida and Georgia to Oklahoma I?

Answer 13

Trial of Tears