Exam 10: Power, Race, and Gender

General George Armstrong Custer led elements of the U. S. Seventh Cavalry to destruction at the hands of Cheyenne and Sioux at the Little Big Horn River. Known as Custer's Last Stand, this event inspired renewed

Cuban Americans have higher educational levels than other Hispanics in the United States.

Compensatory or preferential treatment of minorities is called _________.

Compare and contrast the experiences in American life between Cuban Americans and Mexican Americans. How might these different experiences influence the tendency of the groups to identify themselves separately rather than as Hispanics?

Mexican American voter turnout is higher than that of other ethnic groups.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibits discrimination in

The "March on Washington" was led by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1969.

The "separate but equal" doctrine was made official interpretation of the equal protection clause in 1896 with the decision in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

Today, 20 percent of the U.S. population is of Asian descent.