Deck 6: Changing Patterns of Majority-Minority Relations in the United States

Question 1

In the post-bellum North,blacks newly arriving in Northern cities often ended up as strikebreakers because:

A) Poverty gave them little choice
B) Blacks were paid more money than the striking whites had been paid
C) Blacks were opposed to unions based on religious beliefs
D) Hispanics and Native Americans were not willing to do this kind of work

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A dual-wage system would most likely be found under a ________ system of race relations.

A) Rigid competitive
B) Fluid competitive
C) Paternalistic
D) Class

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is true about lynching?

A) Most of the victims of lynching in the South were white
B) Lynching increased after the end of slavery as whites felt their status threatened
C) There were fewer with the decline of the cotton plantations
D) Lynchings were most likely to take place in the Northeast

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The rigid system of segregation that developed in the South following the brief period of Reconstruction after the Civil War was due to:

A) Competition between lower-status whites and freed blacks
B) The desire of the elite to maintain its dominance encouraging the uniting of blacks and poor whites
C) The creation of a system where status is shared among racial groups
D) Frequent interactions between racial groups both at work and in their neighborhoods

Question 5

In which area of the country in the 1900s were anti-immigrant sentiments the strongest against Asians?

A) The East
B) The West
C) The South
D) The North

Question 6

Rejection of the dominant group's values and cultural traits which allows the person to maintain a positive self-identity in the face of harsh treatment and attacks of one's culture can result in the development of a(n):

A) Prejudiced personality
B) Authoritarian personality
C) Oppositional identity
D) Compromised identity

Question 7

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the racial situation in the Northern United States area around the time of the Civil War?

A) Whites were eager to join the war effort to free southern blacks from slavery
B) White workers welcomed black workers
C) Many states passed laws banning black people from entering
D) Local governments passed laws protecting the right to work for blacks

Question 8

The strict,legally-mandated segregation of blacks and whites in the post-Civil War United States came to be known as:

A) George Wallace
B) Apartheid
C) Jim Crow
D) Gerrymandering

Question 9

In the post-bellum South,the group which provided the main strength of the Ku Klux Klan and the loudest demand for segregation laws was:

A) The old planter elite class
B) Poor and working class whites
C) The industrial elite
D) Northern politicians

Question 10

The "zoot suit" riots took place in:

A) Chicago in 1919
B) Los Angeles in 1992
C) Los Angeles in 1943
D) St. Louis in 1917

Question 11

The demise of the Populist Party was due to:

A) Lack of success by the party in elections
B) Prejudice against blacks within the party
C) The threat of the Democratic elite to use laws designed to deny blacks the vote to take away the vote of poor whites also
D) The beginning of World War I

Question 12

That the children of colonized and stigmatized groups in Japan do very well when they immigrate to the United States indicates success depends on:

A) How the group is treated and viewed by the society in which it lives
B) The characteristics of the group
C) The traditional culture of the group
D) Immigrants to a Western country

Question 13

During the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries,the dominant pattern of American race relations came to resemble the:

A) Rigid competitive pattern
B) Fluid competitive pattern
C) Paternalistic system
D) Open, hospitable system

Question 14

Why didn't the Civil War bring an end to pervasive racial inequality in the South?

A) The planter class still had power enough to pass laws that kept blacks subordinate
B) Blacks weren't interested in getting involved in politics of the south and did not try to vote
C) Immigrants from other countries moved in large numbers to the south and took job opportunities from blacks
D) Blacks and poor whites worked together to vote in politicians to represent them

Question 15

Blauner argues that the reason blacks,American Indians,and Chicanos are still socially and economically disadvantaged and are not assimilated to the same degree as such groups as the Irish and Italians is that:

A) Blacks, Indians, and Chicanos cannot pass as white
B) The Irish and Italians have different work patterns
C) Blacks, Indians, and Chicanos were colonized minorities while Irish and Italians were immigrant minorities
D) Blacks, Indians, and Chicanos fail to accept the dominant white culture

Question 16

An attempt during the post-Civil War period to break through the racial division and unify poor whites and blacks on the basis of class was initiated by the:

A) Democratic Party
B) Populist Party
C) Independent Party
D) Republican Party

Question 17

When a racial or ethnic group is colonized they are typically:

A) Invited to participate as equals in the colonizers' culture
B) Subjected to some form of forced labor
C) Encouraged to maintain their culture
D) Encouraged to integrate into the larger society

Question 18

Asian-Americans can be classified as members of the:

A) Dominant group
B) Immigrant minority
C) Colonized minority
D) Somewhere between immigrant and colonized minorities

Question 19

Which group would be considered a colonized minority in the United States?

A) African Americans
B) Irish Americans
C) Italian Americans
D) Asian Americans

Question 20

In the ________ case in 1896,the Supreme Court established the "separate but equal" doctrine,which upheld segregated facilities.

A) Dred Scott
B) Roe versus Wade
C) Plessy versus Ferguson
D) Brown versus the Board of Education

Question 21

Cultural racism:

A) Argues that minorities have developed cultural characteristics which place them at a disadvantage
B) Has decreased in importance in recent years relative to other forms of ideological racism
C) Blames other minority groups for the effects of discrimination and exploitation of blacks
D) Blames the poverty of minorities on the economic system in place in the United States

Question 22

One of the greatest changes in minority group status since WWII is:

A) Elimination of violence against them
B) The abolition of prejudice
C) The presence of a sizeable and growing middle class
D) Overt discrimination in privately owned business

Question 23

Discrimination is economically more irrational in an industrial society than agricultural societies for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) Because of the diversity of skills required, discrimination on the basis of ascribed characteristics is shortsighted and may not result in the best match
B) It does not make sense to cut off potential buyers because of race, religion, or some other irrelevant factor when you want to make a profit
C) Focusing on the local selling area means favoring employees who have the ascribed characteristics that are shared by the majority group in that area
D) Geographic and social mobility are required to achieve the best match of person and a job, and ascribed status would be limit this

Question 24

10.The period from the end of the Civil War to World War II was a classic case of fluid competitive race relations.

Question 25

Which group(s)can be considered predominately middle-class today?

A) African Americans
B) Native Americans
C) Chicanos and Puerto Ricans
D) Chinese and Japanese Americans

Question 26

1.Puerto Ricans first came under American rule by conquest.

Question 27

Today's majority-minority relations in the United States are an example of:

A) Fluid competitive relations
B) Paternalistic race relations
C) Rigid competitive race relations
D) Caste-like race relations

Question 28

7.Increased competition for jobs seems to increase racial prejudice.

Question 29

Common experiences among Asian Americans,blacks,and Chicanos,between 1870 and World War II included:

A) Plenty of job opportunities
B) Little prejudice or discrimination
C) Integrated neighborhoods with whites
D) Being the victims of collective violence by whites

Question 30

9.Many whites believed that Mexicans were responsible for low wages.

Question 31

8.Periods of racial violence in the United States are closely correlated with periods of war.

Question 32

All of the following were changes in the 1950s and 60s that tended to bring about more fluid race relations EXCEPT:

A) New opportunities opened to blacks and other minorities in the expanding economy
B) The position of minorities was safe enough for them to make demands for more equality
C) Whites, especially in the middle class, were less threatened by minority gains than in the past
D) Whites were less receptive to court rulings against discrimination and segregation

Question 33

5.The worst riot in American history occurred in New York City in 1863.

Question 34

Urbanization and industrialization pushed the U.S.in the direction of more fluid race relations because of:

A) The rationality of discrimination
B) Less requirements for physical mobility
C) Generally rising education levels
D) Increased intergroup competition

Question 35

When a person purchases a house and signs an agreement not to sell the house to blacks,Jews,or other minority group members.This is called a:

A) Purchase agreement
B) Restrictive covenant
C) Buyers covenant
D) Purchasing restriction

Question 36

2.The experience of blacks,American Indians,and Chicanos is similar to that of European ethnic groups.

Question 37

3.Asian Americans would be considered somewhere between colonized minorities and immigrant minorities.

Question 38

The Brown versus Board of Education case in 1954 abolished:

A) Prejudice
B) The "separate but equal" doctrine
C) Restrictive housing covenants
D) Overt discrimination in privately owned businesses

Question 39

6.Reconstruction substantially improved the condition of southern blacks.

Question 40

4.The Civil War is seen as a struggle between the industrial South and the landowning North.

Question 41

2.What is the theory of internal colonialism and how can it be applied to the "colonized" minorities in the United States?

Question 42

3.What was the Jim Crow system and how did the Southern White elite establish this system after reconstruction?

Question 43

1.Why is war correlated with racial violence in the United States? What two reasons are discussed in the textbook?