Of All the Immigrant Groups That Came to the United

question 91

Multiple Choice

Of all the immigrant groups that came to the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century, which was LEAST tolerant of free African Americans?

• A) Chinese
• B) free blacks
• C) Irish
• D) Mexicans
• E) Germans

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis or a false positive in hypothesis testing.

Type II Error

The mistake of failing to reject a null hypothesis when it is actually false, commonly represented by the symbol β (beta).

One-Tailed Test

A hypothesis test in which the region of rejection is only on one side of the sampling distribution, used when a research hypothesis predicts a direction of the effect.

P-Value

The p-value measures the evidence against the null hypothesis, indicating the probability of observing the test results under the null hypothesis.