SECTION 2 TIME—25 MINUTES 18 QUESTIONS DIRECTIONS
11.
Information in the passage supports which of the
following statements about many European ethnic
groups in the nineteenth-century United States?
(A) They emphasized economic interests as a way of
mobilizing constituents behind certain issues.
(B) They conceived of their own ethnicity as being
primordial in nature.
(C) They created cultural traditions that fused United
States symbols with those of their countries of
origin.
(D) They de-emphasized the cultural components of
their communities in favor of political interests.
(E) They organized formal community groups
designed to promote a renaissance of ethnic
history and culture.
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