Quiz - Chapter 12

By 1960, San Antonia, Texas housed the largest Mexican American community in the United States.

False

During the 1960s, Mexican American residents of San Francisco dominated California politics.

False

Poll taxes were used to assure funds were available to conduct elections in poor neighborhoods.

False

President Johnson's War on Poverty had little impact on the Mexican American Community.

False

According to Acuna, U.S. Mexicans had to go into the army because of a lack of educationand then they could not take advantage of the education stipends of the GI Bill, again because of a lackof education.

True

According to Acuna, in the 1950s, Mexicans and Mexican Americans continued to live primarily in the five southwestern states of Texas, NewMexico, Colorado, Arizona, and California.

True

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True

Tejano students formed the Mexcian American Youth Organization (MAYO) at St. Mary's College in San Antonio in 1967.

True

The Viva Kennedy clubs and the candidacy of President John F. Kennedy stimulated political activity among Mexican Americans.

True

The importance of the Korean War globally was that it established a precedent for U.S.

intervention to contain the so-called Communist expansion.