Week 15 Quiz

Which statement describes how the Delano grape strike began in 1965?

Select one.

• Filipino farmworkers struck first, and the National Farm Workers Association voted to join them.
• Mexican American farmworkers of the National Farm Workers Association struck first, and Filipino farmworkers joined them later.
• Braceros under contract struck first in 1964, and both unions joined after the Bracero Program ended.
• The two unions merged into one union first, and only then did farmworkers from both communities strike together.

Which description fits a cross-group coalition as this course defines it?

Select one.

• Several groups dissolve and form one new group under a single shared name and history.
• One group speaks for several others, which agree to set their own demands aside.
• Groups with different histories act together on shared demands while each keeps its own name.
• Groups that share one history and one name meet to plan a single event.

Which list places three cross-group coalitions in the order they began?

Select one.

• San Francisco State strike, then the Delano grape strike, then the occupation of Alcatraz
• Delano grape strike, then the San Francisco State strike, then the occupation of Alcatraz
• Occupation of Alcatraz Island, then the San Francisco State strike, then the Delano grape strike
• Delano grape strike, then the occupation of Alcatraz, then the San Francisco State strike

What does the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 require?

Select one.

• A payment of 20,000 dollars to each surviving member of a Native nation whose lands were taken.
• A formal apology from Congress to Native nations for the removal of their ancestors.
• A settlement of every claim that Native nations hold against the United States.
• Return of Native American human remains and cultural items by federal agencies and federally funded institutions, through consultation.

Public Law 103-150 (1993) apologized to Native Hawaiians for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. What does its last section say?

Select one.

• It is not intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.
• Each Native Hawaiian alive in 1993 is to receive a payment of 20,000 dollars as redress for the overthrow.
• Federal lands taken in the overthrow are to be returned to Native Hawaiian organizations.
• The Kingdom of Hawaii is restored as a self-governing nation.

A classmate says, "Once a government apologizes, it has made redress." Which reading of this week's three laws shows why the claim misreads redress?

Select one.

• The 1988 law shows that apologies always come with a payment, so the claim is accurate.
• The 1990 law shows that returns always come with an apology, so the claim is accurate.
• All three laws paid each person affected, so apology and redress mean the same thing.
• The 1993 resolution apologized but settles no claims and pays nothing, while redress adds a payment or a return.

Which pair of cases shows the 14th Amendment (1868) being used for groups other than Black Americans?

Select one.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) and Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Korematsu v. United States (1944)

In the course's illustrative oral-history archive, the excerpt from a student who joined a high-school walkout in the 1960s (E6) is tied to which documented event?

Select one.

• The San Francisco State strike that began in November 1968
• The East Los Angeles walkouts of 1968
• The Delano grape strike of 1965
• The Montgomery bus boycott that began in 1955

The strikers at San Francisco State in 1968 and 1969 demanded which structure?

Select one.

• Four departments, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Black Studies, and La Raza Studies, within one College of Ethnic Studies
• One Black Studies department in place of all other new programs
• A single combined department in which no group's field had its own name
• Four separate colleges, one on each of four campuses

Which statement fits the origins and the purpose of ethnic studies as this course presents them?

Select one.

• It began as the study of one group's history and later added other groups, one at a time, as separate courses.
• It is a course about assigning blame for past wrongs to present-day groups.
• It began in the 2000s as a new field with no earlier history.
• It grew from a student coalition of four communities and studies how categories were made and answered.