True and False questions
1. Laws passed in the 1970s criminalized undocumented workers and made it a crime for employers to hire undocumented workers.
2. LULAC and the GI Forum received funding from both Democratic and Republican presidents.
3. Mexican American organizations like LULAC and the GI Forum consistently supported Democratic politicians.
4. Middle-class Mexican Americans often preferred the term Hispanic in the 1970s.
5. Most Mexican American school children were in bilingual education classes in the 1970s.
6. Chicano Studies grew out of the walkouts by Chicano students.
7. The 1978 Bakke decision by the US Supreme Court was important for creating more opportunities for Chicanos and other minorities to go to college.
8. The immigration quota from Mexico was dropped from 40,000 to 20,000 by a 1976 law.
9. Chicano Studies grew because there were tens of thousands of Chicano students from professional families in colleges who asked for the courses.
10. The most radical Mexican American activists preferred the term Hispanic to signify their unity with all Latin Americans.