Chapter 4 Multicultural Book

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What is Jamia experiencing when she gets upset seeing someone wearing traditional Middle Eastern clothing or a woman with a hijab, crosses the street to avoid them, and feels nervous around those she believes are Muslim or Middle Eastern?

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Xenophobia

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What is xenophobia?

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The fear of people from other nations.

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What strategy was not used by American Catholics to avoid anti-Catholic violence? Options: Creating their own private school system, Publishing their own Catholic newspapers, Starting Catholic organizations for political and community action

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Changing religious affiliation to Protestant

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When the United States was being established what religion was most influential? Options: Catholicism, Judaism, Protestant Christianity, Mormonism

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Protestant Christianity

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What claim was central to the nativist perspective?

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Immigrants were un-American.

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Union actions to demand better wages and working conditions were thought of as an expression of anarchist, radical ideals.

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Were thought of as an expression of anarchist, radical ideals.

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What was the Know-Nothing’s original political platform? Options: To increase the influence of Catholics and immigrants, To stop the political influence of Catholic and immigrants, To support Abraham Lincoln for president, To condemn secret political organizations and activities

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To stop the political influence of Catholic and immigrants

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What issue split apart the Know-Nothing party and American parties and decreased their political force? Options: Immigration, Slavery, Religious freedom, Xenophobia

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Slavery

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What did nativists groups believe would happen if European ethnic groups continued to immigrate to the United States after World War I?

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The Anglo ideal would disappear.

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How were German Americans treated in the early 1900s?

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They were denounced for claiming dual identity.