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True or False


This activity contains 10 questions.

	In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico acknowledged the annexation of Texas by the United States and ceded California and most of Arizona and New Mexico to the United States for $15 million.    True  False

	Nowhere else in the world do two countries – the United States and Mexico – with such different standards of living and wage scales share a relatively open border.    True  False

	La Raza refers to Mexican Americans assimilate into the mainstream culture after their arrival in the United States.    True  False

	A 1980 report of the Commission of Civil Rights stated that the two most prevalent stereotypical themes appearing in works on Hispanics showed them as (1) exclusively poor, and (2) familisitic.    True  False

	Puerto Ricans are a colonial minority, according to Caesar Chavez, because their relationship with Anglos was originally involuntary.    True  False

	MALDEF does for Mexican Americans what the NAACP does for African Americans.    True  False

	Among the institutions imported to Puerto Rico by Spain was slavery. However, slavery in Puerto Rico was not as harsh as in the United States.    True  False

	In 1950, Mexican American nationalists attempted to assassinate President Truman, killing a White House guard in the process.    True  False

	Latinos are predominately Catholic, but the Pentacostalism, a type of evangelical Christianity is growing significantly.    True  False

	The per-capita income in Puerto Rico is less than half that of Mississippi, the poorest state.    True  False

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