WorksheetsHispanic Americans Unit Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 19mins
What is the largest and oldest Spanish settlement in the Southwest?
Santa Fe
Tucson
San Diego
Las Vegas
Puerto Rico abolishes slavery in the year ________.
1886
1863
1873
1888
During the Mexican Revolution, how did people escape Mexico?
Fled across the Rio Grande into the US
Fled by boat in the Pacific Ocean
Fled to the neighboring county Guatemala
What did the Fair Employment Practices Act eliminate in the 1940s?
discrimination in public housing
discrimination in education in public schools
discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government
discrimination in the employment of workers in the education field
After what war, did the first Mexicans become US citizens?
War of 1812
Revolutionary War
Civil War
Mexican American War
What treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Paris 1783
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Don Domingo
What kind of jobs did Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans work in the late 19th and early 20th century? Check all that apply.
agriculture
medical field
meat processing
steel mills
The Mexican Repatriation Act was a mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans from the United States.
True
False
The purpose of the Bracero Program during WWII brought Mexican laborers to the United States to remedy wartime production shortages.
True
False
Check all that apply to maquiladora and exporting its products to the country of that company.
a factory in Mexico
run by a foreign company
only sells products to the country of that company
sells to both Mexico and the country of that company
A migradollar is
money earned by a migrant worker
money sent home by a foreign migrant worker
the cost of a migrant worker to move to each job location
money saved for a home by a migrant worker
Why did Cubans leave Cuba in the 1950s and 1960s?
Jones-Shafroth Act
Natural Disasters
Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro
Free land offered by the United States
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a one month, four days confrontation between what two countries?
United States
Soviet Union
North Korea
Cuba
Where did most Puerto Ricans relocate to in the United States when immigration was opened for them?
Kansas
California
New York
Georgia
Two outcomes of the Spanish-American War that ended in 1898 were
Spain maintained control in the Caribbean
Spain reclaimed Mexico
Spain ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States
Spain renounced all claim to Cuba
What act made Puerto Ricans US citizens?
Sugar Act
Jones-Shafroth Act
Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Adams-Onis
The name given to Spanish explorers who ultimately conquered Latin America
(a)
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)
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)
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)
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)
"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)
He was a Mexican American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum.
(a)
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)
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)
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)
