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Hispanic Americans Unit Review

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the largest and oldest Spanish settlement in the Southwest?

a)

Santa Fe

b)

Tucson

c)

San Diego

d)

Las Vegas

2.

Puerto Rico abolishes slavery in the year ________.

a)

1886

b)

1863

c)

1873

d)

1888

3.

During the Mexican Revolution, how did people escape Mexico?

a)

Fled across the Rio Grande into the US

b)

Fled by boat in the Pacific Ocean

c)

Fled to the neighboring county Guatemala

4.

What did the Fair Employment Practices Act eliminate in the 1940s?

a)

discrimination in public housing

b)

discrimination in education in public schools

c)

discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government

d)

discrimination in the employment of workers in the education field

5.

After what war, did the first Mexicans become US citizens?

a)

War of 1812

b)

Revolutionary War

c)

Civil War

d)

Mexican American War

6.

What treaty ended the Mexican American War?

a)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

b)

Treaty of Paris 1783

c)

Treaty of Paris 1763

d)

Treaty of Don Domingo

7.

What kind of jobs did Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans work in the late 19th and early 20th century? Check all that apply.

a)

agriculture

b)

medical field

c)

meat processing

d)

steel mills

8.

The Mexican Repatriation Act was a mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The purpose of the Bracero Program during WWII brought Mexican laborers to the United States to remedy wartime production shortages.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Check all that apply to maquiladora and exporting its products to the country of that company.

a)

a factory in Mexico

b)

run by a foreign company

c)

only sells products to the country of that company

d)

sells to both Mexico and the country of that company

11.

A migradollar is

a)

money earned by a migrant worker

b)

money sent home by a foreign migrant worker

c)

the cost of a migrant worker to move to each job location

d)

money saved for a home by a migrant worker

12.

Why did Cubans leave Cuba in the 1950s and 1960s?

a)

Jones-Shafroth Act

b)

Natural Disasters

c)

Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro

d)

Free land offered by the United States

13.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a one month, four days confrontation between what two countries?

a)

United States

b)

Soviet Union

c)

North Korea

d)

Cuba

14.

Where did most Puerto Ricans relocate to in the United States when immigration was opened for them?

a)

Kansas

b)

California

c)

New York

d)

Georgia

15.

Two outcomes of the Spanish-American War that ended in 1898 were

a)

Spain maintained control in the Caribbean

b)

Spain reclaimed Mexico

c)

Spain ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States

d)

Spain renounced all claim to Cuba

16.

What act made Puerto Ricans US citizens?

a)

Sugar Act

b)

Jones-Shafroth Act

c)

Guadalupe-Hidalgo

d)

Adams-Onis

17.

The name given to Spanish explorers who ultimately conquered Latin America

(a)  

18.

A labor system instituted by the Spanish crown in the American colonies. In this system, a Spanish encomendero was granted a number of native laborers who would pay tributes to him in exchange for his protection.

(a)  

19.

The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.

(a)  

20.

El Movimiento, was a social and political movement inspired by prior acts of resistance among people of Mexican descent, especially of Pachucos in the 1940s and 1950s.

(a)  

21.

She is an American civil rights activist of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage. At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946.

(a)  

22.

"Corky" was a Chicano boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist. Gonzales was one of many leaders for the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado.

(a)  

23.

He was a Mexican American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.

(a)  

24.

She is an American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993 she became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

(a)  

25.

A member of the Democratic Party, he was the youngest member of President Obama's cabinet, serving as the 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017.

(a)  

26.

She is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009 and has served since August 8, 2009. She is the first Hispanic and Latina member of the Court.

(a)