Exam 3: The Development of Dominantminority Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery

The group-oriented nature of enslaved Black women's work allowed for the creation of networks to shape forms of resistance.

Whites benefited from the system of slavery regardless of whether they owned slaves.

A level of acculturation is necessary for colonized groups to survive.

"Enslaved Africans' labor is exploited for the benefit of landowning whites." This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Which of the following statements about a caste system is true?

The first Africans to come to the British colonies were probably indentured servants rather than slaves.

The form of competition between groups is often influenced by the ______ of a society.

What is a significant component of slavery related to ideas about enslaved Africans' humanity?

Immigrant minority groups are involuntary participants in the host society.

According to the Noel hypothesis, what will be the result of contact between groups that features ethnocentrism, competition between groups, and a differential in power?

Hawaiians first came into contact with Europeans in 1788. Conquest and colonization did not follow the early contact because ______.

Slavery was a caste system, or a(n) ______ stratification system.

Daily acts of noncooperation performed by enslaved Africans had little significance for challenging the institution of slavery.

Native reservations, like slave plantations, could be considered paternalistic systems with a colonized group.

Apply Noel's hypothesis to the contact situations of African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans. Link the differences in contact situations to the systems of group relationships that developed. Explain how the differences in the contact situation led to different relationships with the dominant group for each minority group.

According to Robert Blauner, the way in which immigrant and colonized groups come into contact with each other has consequences that persist long after the original contact.

Native American societies were generally matriarchal and followed a strict gender-based division of labor in which most men were the subordinates.

The label Native American is used to refer to ______.

Attempts at acculturation by various Native American tribes often resulted in the increase of status and power by Native American women.

The plantation elite designed and enacted an elaborate system of laws and customs that gave masters total legal power over slaves. In these laws, slaves were defined as ______.