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True or False

True or False


This activity contains 10 questions.

	Opinion polls in the United States from 1965 through 2003 have shown more than 17 percent of the public in favor of more immigration.    True  False

	Minorities generally band together against the discrimination by the dominant group in a society.    True  False

	Irish Americans opposed the Emancipation Proclamation and the freeing of the slaves because they feared Blacks would compete for unskilled work open to them.    True  False

	The functionalist perspective would note that Chinese immigrants were welcomed to the United States only when their labor was necessary to fuel economic growth in the United States.    True  False

	The passage of the so-called "Gentlemen's Agreement," actually mandated a literacy test for all new immigrants to the United States.    True  False

	The national origins system permitted unrestricted immigration to the United States from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.    True  False

	Two of the potential benefits of immigration are: immigrants contribute to taxes and they increase the population.    True  False

	A National Science Foundation study of Asian doctoral recipients found that 60 percent of the engineers and 85 percent of the scientists planned to stay in the United States.    True  False

	The Sierra Club, an environmental organization, has recently decided to favor immigration restrictions to the United States to avoid overpopulation and environmental overload.    True  False

	The Immigration Reform Act of 1986 made hiring illegal aliens illegal, so that employers were subject to fines and even prison sentence, which has effectively curtailed illegal immigration to the United States.    True  False

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