Deck 1: Americas Dilemmas

Question 1

Why are the terms Indian peoples, American Indian peoples, and indigenous peoples used in social and political science contexts, as compared to the term Native Americans?

A) These groups are not actually native to the land.
B) Political correctness causes society to change group names frequently.
C) Knowledge about where these groups are from have changed over time.
D) Native American was a term used by anti-immigrant, white supremacist nativist movements.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Race and ethnicity are

A) biological constructs
B) social constructs
C) nonexistent
D) self-imposed constructs

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Antimiscegenation laws are policies that

A) prohibit interracial sexual relationships and marriage.
B) create separate public facilities for various racial groups.
C) integrate public facilities to prohibit racial segregation.
D) incentivize interracial sexual relationships and marriage.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Virginia was instituting slavery on a broad scale as early as:

A) 1619
B) 1661
C) 1774
D) 1808

Question 5

Which of the following is not an aspect of how ethnicity is defined?

A) Learned characteristics.
B) Familial national origin.
C) Skin tone and facial features.
D) All of the answers are essential to the definition.

Question 6

How many racial categories appeared on the 2010 U.S. Census?

A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8

Question 7

The political and economic theory that states that the individual possess a sphere of rights that should be free from government interference is known as

A) classical liberalism
B) classical republicanism
C) inegalitarianism
D) egalitarianism

Question 8

What were two (2) main issues that needed to be addressed after the ratification of the Constitution?

A) citizenship and birth rights
B) suffrage and justice
C) justice and equality
D) suffrage and citizenship

Question 9

The Naturalization Act of 1790 allowed _________ the ability to be granted citizenship.

A) "free white aliens"
B) "free black aliens"
C) "all Christians"
D) "all who enter the nation"

Question 10

The decision among constitutional delegates to allow slaves to be partially counted for the purposes for political representation is known as the _______________.

A) one-fifths compromise
B) two-fifths compromise
C) three-fifths compromise
D) four-fifths compromise

Question 11

Which Supreme Court decision indicated that blacks could not be citizens, given the beliefs and intentions of the founders?

A) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
B) Elk v. Wilkins (1884)
C) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
D) Brown v. Board (1954)

Question 12

The U.S. Constitution, as originally written, left decisions regarding citizenship to ____________.

A) slave owners
B) local governing councils
C) the U.S. Congress
D) the states

Question 13

In which case did the Supreme Court refuse to extend the birthright citizenship granted in the Fourteenth Amendment to American Indians?

A) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
B) Elk v. Wilkins (1884)
C) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
D) Brown v. Board (1954)

Question 14

When were the racial restrictions of the Naturalization Act of 1790 rescinded?

A) 1830
B) 1892
C) 1952
D) 1983

Question 15

Which Supreme Court case established the separate but equal doctrine?

A) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
B) Elk v. Wilkins (1884)
C) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
D) Brown v. Board (1954)

Question 16

Explain how/why race and ethnicity are defined and examined as separate concepts. Provide two examples of how/why we can differentiate between these ideas.

Question 17

What were the purposes and effects of the three-fifths compromise?

Question 18

In what ways have we seen the development and continuation of the salience of race in the U.S. political context?

Question 19

Identify two (2) methods used to disenfranchise racial/ethnic minority voters and indicate how they operated.

Question 20

Essay: Identify classical liberalism and explain its connection to the U.S. Constitution? Explain how it simultaneously provided civil rights for citizens and perpetuated slavery.

Question 21

Why are the concepts of citizenship and suffrage essential in the American political context? Examine the struggles to obtain these rights by the four main racial/ethnic groups covered within the text. Indicate where you find similarities and differences, as well as why these similarities and differences exist.