Chicano Movement

The goal of the Chicano movement was to have _________.

• equal education
• better working pay
• voting rights
• all of these

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The Chicano movement was called_________ 

• A Way to Freedom
• El Movimiento
• El Desperado
• La Libertad

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 What did the Chicanos use to protest?

• signs and speeches
• knives and guns
• only knives
• only signs

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What was the name of the Chicano Political Party?

• Black Panthers
• Raza Unida Party
• Las Panteras
• None of these

What kind of movement was the Chicano Movement?

• political and emotional
• educational and visual
• cultural and political
• literary and civil

What did many farm owners threaten to do to farm workers if they complained about working conditions?

• Find someone else to do their job.
• Have them deported from the country.
• Both found someone else to do their job and/or threatened to deport them.
• None of the answers

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Who was the leader of the United Farm Workers Union Movement?

• Sal Castro
• Gonzalo Mendez
• Pete Hernandez
• Cesar Chavez

During the America Great Depression, many Mexicans, some of the U.S. citizens were sent back across the border, illegally, to free up jobs for the millions of Americans out of work.  

• Pueblo Revolt
• The Bracero Program
• Mexican Repatriation Act
•  Repartimiento System

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During World War Two 16 million young Americans went abroad to fight in the two theaters of war.  This "invitation" was given to Mexican nationals to come help fill the labor shortage in America during the war.  

• Bracero Program
• Mexican Repatriation Act
• Repartimiento System
• Encomienda System

Along with Dolores Huerta this man started a Chicano Civil Rights movement.  Using tactics of non-violence pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi and MLK, he sought to give more rights to migrant farm workers who were being subjected to poor pay and dangerous conditions (they were being sprayed with insecticide along with the crops).  His movement grew into a much larger Chicano empowerment movement.  

• Hernan Cortes
• Cesar Chavez
• Francisco Coronado 
• Benito Juarez

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