CHST MAIN EXAM TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔US Violating Mexican Sovereignty - ✔✔The fate of every democracy, of every
government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes
between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other
the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition
✔✔1913 Wheatland Riot - ✔✔The Wheatland hop riot was a violent confrontation
during a strike of agricultural workers demanding decent working conditions at the Durst
Ranch in Wheatland, California, on August 3, 1913.
✔✔1913 Ludlow Massacre - ✔✔The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado
National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of
1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914.
About two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief
owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely criticized for the incident.
✔✔Arizona Alient Labor Law - ✔✔The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe
Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and thus often referred to
simply as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010 legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that at
the time of passage in 2010 was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration
measure passed in Arizona.[2] It has received national and international attention and
has spurred considerable controversy.
✔✔Carmelita Torrez - ✔✔Despite Carmelita's efforts, the hazardous baths and
fumigations carried on for decades. Some Mexicans protested in different ways, like
organizing illegal border crossings, which weren't common at the time, where they could
avoid custom agents and, consequently, the dangerous delousing.
✔✔The Plan of San Diego - ✔✔The Plan of San Diego (Spanish: Plan de San Diego)
was drafted in the Texas town of San Diego in 1915 by a group of unknown Mexican
rebels, hoping to create social unrest and obtain political and economic gains. Raids
resutling from attempts to implement the plan led to the Bandit War with the United
States.
✔✔WW1 - ✔✔World War I definition. A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the
Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
✔✔Marcelino Serna - ✔✔Private Marcelino Serna (April 26, 1896 - February 29, 1992)
was a Mexican immigrant who lived in El Paso, Texas. He became the most decorated
soldier from Texas in World War I. Serna was the first Hispanic to be awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross
, ✔✔Pan-Americanism - ✔✔the principle or advocacy of political or commercial and
cultural cooperation among all the countries of North and South America.
✔✔First generation - ✔✔designating the first of a generation to become a citizen in a
new country.
✔✔second generation - ✔✔denoting the offspring of parents who have immigrated to a
particular country.
✔✔Third generation - ✔✔being a member of the third generation of a family to be born
in the U.S. a third-generation American
✔✔Mainstreaming - ✔✔place (a student with special needs) into a mainstream class or
school.
✔✔Americanization programs - ✔✔The Americanization movement was a nationwide
organized effort in the 1910s to bring millions of recent immigrants into the American
cultural system.
✔✔school segregation - ✔✔Segregation can be defined in terms of two different
measures: racial isolation (or exposure), and racial unevenness (or imbalance).
Measures of exposure define segregation according to the proportion of various races
and ethnicities present in a school.
✔✔White ANglo Saxon Ptorestants - ✔✔White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is a
term for an elite social class of powerful white Americans of British Protestant ancestry.
✔✔Dominant Culture - ✔✔The dominant culture is a culture that is the most powerful,
widespread, or influential within a social or political entity in which multiple cultures are
present. In a society refers to the established language, religion, values, rituals, and
social customs. These traits are often the norm for the society as a whole.
✔✔Pledge of allegiance - ✔✔The American patriotic vow, which is often recited at
formal government ceremonies, including Independence Day ceremonies for new
citizens: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all.
✔✔De Jure Subjugation - ✔✔The apartheid system that existed in South Africa is an
example of a de jure segregation system. De jure segregation refers to the legal
separation of groups of people based on the law.
✔✔De Facto Subjugation - ✔✔The term 'de jure' translates roughly into English as
'according to the law.' A close relative of de jure segregation is de facto segregation.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔US Violating Mexican Sovereignty - ✔✔The fate of every democracy, of every
government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes
between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other
the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition
✔✔1913 Wheatland Riot - ✔✔The Wheatland hop riot was a violent confrontation
during a strike of agricultural workers demanding decent working conditions at the Durst
Ranch in Wheatland, California, on August 3, 1913.
✔✔1913 Ludlow Massacre - ✔✔The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado
National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of
1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914.
About two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief
owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely criticized for the incident.
✔✔Arizona Alient Labor Law - ✔✔The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe
Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and thus often referred to
simply as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010 legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that at
the time of passage in 2010 was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration
measure passed in Arizona.[2] It has received national and international attention and
has spurred considerable controversy.
✔✔Carmelita Torrez - ✔✔Despite Carmelita's efforts, the hazardous baths and
fumigations carried on for decades. Some Mexicans protested in different ways, like
organizing illegal border crossings, which weren't common at the time, where they could
avoid custom agents and, consequently, the dangerous delousing.
✔✔The Plan of San Diego - ✔✔The Plan of San Diego (Spanish: Plan de San Diego)
was drafted in the Texas town of San Diego in 1915 by a group of unknown Mexican
rebels, hoping to create social unrest and obtain political and economic gains. Raids
resutling from attempts to implement the plan led to the Bandit War with the United
States.
✔✔WW1 - ✔✔World War I definition. A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the
Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
✔✔Marcelino Serna - ✔✔Private Marcelino Serna (April 26, 1896 - February 29, 1992)
was a Mexican immigrant who lived in El Paso, Texas. He became the most decorated
soldier from Texas in World War I. Serna was the first Hispanic to be awarded the
Distinguished Service Cross
, ✔✔Pan-Americanism - ✔✔the principle or advocacy of political or commercial and
cultural cooperation among all the countries of North and South America.
✔✔First generation - ✔✔designating the first of a generation to become a citizen in a
new country.
✔✔second generation - ✔✔denoting the offspring of parents who have immigrated to a
particular country.
✔✔Third generation - ✔✔being a member of the third generation of a family to be born
in the U.S. a third-generation American
✔✔Mainstreaming - ✔✔place (a student with special needs) into a mainstream class or
school.
✔✔Americanization programs - ✔✔The Americanization movement was a nationwide
organized effort in the 1910s to bring millions of recent immigrants into the American
cultural system.
✔✔school segregation - ✔✔Segregation can be defined in terms of two different
measures: racial isolation (or exposure), and racial unevenness (or imbalance).
Measures of exposure define segregation according to the proportion of various races
and ethnicities present in a school.
✔✔White ANglo Saxon Ptorestants - ✔✔White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is a
term for an elite social class of powerful white Americans of British Protestant ancestry.
✔✔Dominant Culture - ✔✔The dominant culture is a culture that is the most powerful,
widespread, or influential within a social or political entity in which multiple cultures are
present. In a society refers to the established language, religion, values, rituals, and
social customs. These traits are often the norm for the society as a whole.
✔✔Pledge of allegiance - ✔✔The American patriotic vow, which is often recited at
formal government ceremonies, including Independence Day ceremonies for new
citizens: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all.
✔✔De Jure Subjugation - ✔✔The apartheid system that existed in South Africa is an
example of a de jure segregation system. De jure segregation refers to the legal
separation of groups of people based on the law.
✔✔De Facto Subjugation - ✔✔The term 'de jure' translates roughly into English as
'according to the law.' A close relative of de jure segregation is de facto segregation.
