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There was a disjuncture in early America between constitutional principles and actual practices in local communities. |
| | A) | True |
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States' rights are often invoked to sanction discriminatory practices. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Even today, with two hundred years of immigration, the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon core hold elite positions in disproportionate numbers. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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White ethnic populations that adopted the Anglo-Saxon core did not fare any better than either African Americans, Mexican Americans, or Native Americans. |
| | A) | True |
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Language is a litmus test for an immigrant's right to be an American. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Anglo-Saxon core has remained impervious to other cultures. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Before the American Revolution, schooling was private and available only to affluent, mostly Anglo-Saxon, citizens, and it was based largely on the tenets and core values of English Protestantism. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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At the end of the nineteenth century, in order to Americanize immigrants, the public schools incorporated the social and cultural realities of non-European immigrants into the curriculum. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Rapid industrialization of the East and the Midwest, coupled with the expansion of agriculture and ranching in the West, created new opportunities that stimulated a massive wave of immigration. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The arrival of Irish Catholics in the 1830s and 1860s was seen as a threat to the Anglo-Saxon core. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Relations among ethnic groups only rarely involve relations of superordination and subordination. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Anglo-Saxon core culture lost its hegemony after numerous challenges by the Civil Rights and Third World student movements in the 1960s. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Anglo Saxon core culture sets the terms of competition among ethnic groups–i.e., the nature of the playing field, the rules of the game, and the players allowed in the game. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The English settlers who came to America were a "pure" stock; they had not been blended in with other European stocks. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Abolitionist pressures to free slaves created a sense of threat in both the North and the South. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education