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1
Italian Americans were used as strikebreakers by employers against unions heavily populated by Irish workers.
A)True
B)False
2
The assimilation of white ethnics into American society serves to create positive stereotypes for non-white ethnic groups.
A)True
B)False
3
Jewish Americans are over-represented in high-level positions in the banking industry.
A)True
B)False
4
White ethnics of European origin are more likely to be in managerial and professional occupations than are African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.
A)True
B)False
5
Asian-American poverty rates are significantly lower than those for white ethnics.
A)True
B)False
6
Unions provided southern Italian immigrants with upward mobility.
A)True
B)False
7
Negative beliefs about Jewish Americans are reinforced by the "middleman minority" positions they occupy.
A)True
B)False
8
Systematic efforts were made to identify southern Italian immigrants as a separate "race" because of their Mediterranean skin tone, poverty, and Catholicism.
A)True
B)False
9
The success of white ethnics in assimilating into the Anglo-Saxon core is often used to condemn other ethnics for not doing the same.
A)True
B)False
10
Universities such as Harvard had anti-Jewish admission quotas that existed well into the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
11
Like most middleman minorities, Jewish Americans have not been politically active in the United States.
A)True
B)False
12
The large-scale immigration of southern Italians began in the 1860s and peaked in the first decade of the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
13
Early Italian immigrants engendered fears among Irish Americans because they were yet another disadvantaged immigrant population; this tension was aggravated by the wave of poor Catholic Polish immigrants.
A)True
B)False
14
English prejudice against the Irish was imported to America and intensified.
A)True
B)False
15
Political machines prevented the upward mobility of Irish immigrants.
A)True
B)False





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