CHST MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Mexican American history and the Mexican American experience in the present is
important because____________________________.
a. ...Mexican Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. and a
highly diverse population who are
the descendants native/indigenous Americans, Africans, and Europeans.
b. ...the U.S. is home to one of the largest Spanish speaking populations in the world
and Mexican Americans exercise an
increasingly large amount of political and social influence in the American Southwest.
c. ...it helps us break from the black/white binary to which we tend to learn in history,
diversify our understandings of
frontiers and the movement of different colonial powers in present-day U.S. history, and
explore colonial endeavors that
predate Jamestown and the British on the East Coast.
d. All of the Above - Answer-d. All of the Above
Arizona's House Bill 2281 in 2010 banned Mexican American Studies in the public
schools because, as the policy stated,
it promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government, that ethnic centered curriculum was
wrong because it was designed
for pupils of a particular ethnic group, and that it advocated ethnic solidarity and victim
based thinking instead of
individualism.
True or False - Answer-True
Which of the following statements most accurately describes contemporary and
historical problems with the identity labels "Hispanic" and "Latino?"
a. Both terms emphasize pre-European North America and are problematic in the way
in which they almost completely
leave out Europe
b. Both terms are problematic because they are too region-based in their definitions.
c. Both terms are problematic because of nearly exclusive use as identity labels in
present-day Mexico.
d. Both terms are problematic because they begin with Europe and leave out pre-
European peoples and cultures. - Answer-d. Both terms are problematic because they
begin with Europe and leave out pre-European peoples and cultures.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was the first European colonizer and explorer to leave
a written record of the present-day southern U.S. interior. After experiencing a
shipwreck and witnessing the destruction faced by Native Americans on their decade-
, long return to Present-day Mexico City, wherein he and the other survivors lived with
different Native American societies, he started to speak out against the enslavement of
indigenous peoples by the Spanish.
True or False - Answer-False
Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo ____________________________________.
a. ...was a tireless campaigner for indigenous rights and one of the primary leaders of
the Pueblo Revolt in 1680.
b. ...was one of the leaders of the 1775 revolt led against the mission in San Diego,
which led to the destruction of the
mission and the death of the head padre working there.
c. ...was the first European to set eyes on the Grand Canyon during his trailblazing
expedition throughout present-day
Northern Mexico and the U.S. southwest.
d. ...was a Portuguese explorer known for enslaving women in present-day Mexico City
and a figure who also had the
first recorded encounters between Native Americans and Europeans in present-day
California. - Answer-d. ...was a Portuguese explorer known for enslaving women in
present-day Mexico City and a figure who also had the
first recorded encounters between Native Americans and Europeans in present-day
California.
Around 1600, Sebastián Vizcaíno traveled up the coast of present-day California in
search of the best port or bay suitable for a future Spanish colony. He found a place that
he named Monterey, after the leader of New Spain that hired him for the expedition.
True or False - Answer-True
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the "Sacred Expedition" of
1769?
a. The journey back to present-day Mexico City conducted by Ricardo Valenzuela and
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca after
a party of Spanish colonizers and explorers shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico.
b. The expedition into present-day California that lead to the construction of the first
missions in the region and a
renewed search by the Spanish for Monterey.
c. The expedition undertaken by the Spanish to explore the delta regions inland from
the San Francisco Bay in an attempt
to find suitable places to build a pueblo.
d. The Spanish counter expedition led against Sir Francis Drake and the British
presence in the Pacific Ocean. - Answer-b. The expedition into present-day California
that lead to the construction of the first missions in the region and a
renewed search by the Spanish for Monterey.
ANSWERS
Mexican American history and the Mexican American experience in the present is
important because____________________________.
a. ...Mexican Americans are one of the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. and a
highly diverse population who are
the descendants native/indigenous Americans, Africans, and Europeans.
b. ...the U.S. is home to one of the largest Spanish speaking populations in the world
and Mexican Americans exercise an
increasingly large amount of political and social influence in the American Southwest.
c. ...it helps us break from the black/white binary to which we tend to learn in history,
diversify our understandings of
frontiers and the movement of different colonial powers in present-day U.S. history, and
explore colonial endeavors that
predate Jamestown and the British on the East Coast.
d. All of the Above - Answer-d. All of the Above
Arizona's House Bill 2281 in 2010 banned Mexican American Studies in the public
schools because, as the policy stated,
it promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government, that ethnic centered curriculum was
wrong because it was designed
for pupils of a particular ethnic group, and that it advocated ethnic solidarity and victim
based thinking instead of
individualism.
True or False - Answer-True
Which of the following statements most accurately describes contemporary and
historical problems with the identity labels "Hispanic" and "Latino?"
a. Both terms emphasize pre-European North America and are problematic in the way
in which they almost completely
leave out Europe
b. Both terms are problematic because they are too region-based in their definitions.
c. Both terms are problematic because of nearly exclusive use as identity labels in
present-day Mexico.
d. Both terms are problematic because they begin with Europe and leave out pre-
European peoples and cultures. - Answer-d. Both terms are problematic because they
begin with Europe and leave out pre-European peoples and cultures.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was the first European colonizer and explorer to leave
a written record of the present-day southern U.S. interior. After experiencing a
shipwreck and witnessing the destruction faced by Native Americans on their decade-
, long return to Present-day Mexico City, wherein he and the other survivors lived with
different Native American societies, he started to speak out against the enslavement of
indigenous peoples by the Spanish.
True or False - Answer-False
Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo ____________________________________.
a. ...was a tireless campaigner for indigenous rights and one of the primary leaders of
the Pueblo Revolt in 1680.
b. ...was one of the leaders of the 1775 revolt led against the mission in San Diego,
which led to the destruction of the
mission and the death of the head padre working there.
c. ...was the first European to set eyes on the Grand Canyon during his trailblazing
expedition throughout present-day
Northern Mexico and the U.S. southwest.
d. ...was a Portuguese explorer known for enslaving women in present-day Mexico City
and a figure who also had the
first recorded encounters between Native Americans and Europeans in present-day
California. - Answer-d. ...was a Portuguese explorer known for enslaving women in
present-day Mexico City and a figure who also had the
first recorded encounters between Native Americans and Europeans in present-day
California.
Around 1600, Sebastián Vizcaíno traveled up the coast of present-day California in
search of the best port or bay suitable for a future Spanish colony. He found a place that
he named Monterey, after the leader of New Spain that hired him for the expedition.
True or False - Answer-True
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the "Sacred Expedition" of
1769?
a. The journey back to present-day Mexico City conducted by Ricardo Valenzuela and
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca after
a party of Spanish colonizers and explorers shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico.
b. The expedition into present-day California that lead to the construction of the first
missions in the region and a
renewed search by the Spanish for Monterey.
c. The expedition undertaken by the Spanish to explore the delta regions inland from
the San Francisco Bay in an attempt
to find suitable places to build a pueblo.
d. The Spanish counter expedition led against Sir Francis Drake and the British
presence in the Pacific Ocean. - Answer-b. The expedition into present-day California
that lead to the construction of the first missions in the region and a
renewed search by the Spanish for Monterey.
