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Tirant22

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Effective in the 2000 Census, the classification of data based on race and ethnicity changed the way people were categorized in which of the following ways?
 
  a. Five categories were included for race: American Indian, Asian, Black, Pacific Islander, and White.
  b. Two categories were added for data on ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino.
  c. Another category was included, some other race, for people unable to identify with any of the five categories of race that was listed.
  d. All of the above.

Question 2

In the 1940 census, the term Mexican was dropped from the list of racial responses and Mexicans at that time were listed in which of the following ways?
 
  a. White, unless they were definitely Indian or some other race other than White.
  b. Hispanic, such as a member of any group that came from a Spanish-speaking country.
  c. They were not considered citizens of the United States, no matter how long their ancestry could be traced back to United States soil.
  d. Mexicans were simply excluded altogether from the census and were not counted at all.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

A



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