Question

This excerpt is from a speech by Cesar Chavez in 1984.

All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: To overthrow a farm labor system in this nation which treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings.

Farm workers are not agricultural implements. They are not beasts of burden–to be used and discarded.

That dream was born in my youth. It was nurtured in my early days of organizing. It has flourished. It has been attacked.

I’m not very different from anyone else who has ever tried to accomplish something with his life. My motivation comes from my personal life–from watching what my mother and father went through when I was growing up; from what we experienced as migrant farm workers in California.

That dream, that vision, grew from my own experience with racism, with hope, with the desire to be treated fairly and to see my people treated as human beings and not as chattel.

- Cesar Chavez

Based on the excerpt and your knowledge of U.S. history, what were the goals of Cesar Chavez?

Select TWO correct answers.

To bring awareness to the plight of farm workers

To serve on the U.S. Commission of Agricultural Workers

To win full civil rights for Hispanic Americans

To bring awareness to the use of pesticides in agriculture

To serve on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission

Answer 1

Based on the excerpt and knowledge of U.S. history, the goals of Cesar Chavez were:

To bring awareness to the plight of farm workers.

To win full civil rights for Hispanic Americans.

Therefore, the correct answers are:

To bring awareness to the plight of farm workers

To win full civil rights for Hispanic Americans