Deck 2: The Shaping of a Nation: The Social Construction of Race in America

Question 1

Which of the following is true regarding the U.S. population over the next 40 years?

A) It is projected to grow from 422 to 458 million.
B) People over 65 years old will increase to 20% of the population.
C) Total births will reach its highest level.
D) all of these

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What is the fastest growing voting group in the United States?

A) generation X
B) millennials
C) baby boomers
D) generation Z

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Changes in population demographics impact ______.

A) political voting blocks
B) need for medical services
C) college admission
D) all of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following states has the highest percentage of minority population within the state?

A) California
B) Hawaii
C) Texas
D) Georgia

Question 5

______ refers to large-scale, systematic destruction of a people or nation.

A) Genocide
B) Discrimination
C) Ethnic bias
D) none of these

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of genocide?

A) Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda
B) Holocaust
C) Civil Rights Movement
D) both "Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda" and "Holocaust"

Question 7

______ happens when one racial group is pitted against another.

A) Racial violence
B) Ethnic cleansing
C) Apartheid
D) none of these

Question 8

Which of the following phrases illustrates the social focus put on difference?

A) racial profiling
B) subprime loans
C) dining while black
D) all of these

Question 9

______ is another name for the three-pronged workplace discrimination based on race, gender, and class.

A) Triple glass ceiling
B) Glass escalator
C) Brick escalator
D) Double-down ceiling

Question 10

The largest in-group gender wage disparity is between ______.

A) Hispanic men and women
B) African American men and women
C) white men and women
D) Asian men and women

Question 11

Which group of women led all other women in earnings?

A) African American
B) Asian
C) Native Hawaiian
D) American Indian

Question 12

How many Americans now use social media networks?

A) 5 out of 10
B) 9 out of 10
C) 3 out of 10
D) 7 out of 10

Question 13

In recent years, black college enrollment has ______.

A) leveled off
B) surged
C) shrunk
D) surpassed Latino enrollment rates

Question 14

How many languages are spoken in the United States?

A) more than 50
B) more than 100
C) more than 200
D) more than 300

Question 15

______ is a set of hierarchical relationships where groups are defined culturally, ethnically, and/or racially, and where these relationships serve to guarantee the political, social, and economic interests of the dominant group.

A) Imperialism
B) Colonialism
C) Structured discrimination
D) Genocide

Question 16

Which of the following was discussed as a lens through which colonialism can be viewed?

A) structure of domination
B) internal or domestic colonialism
C) "colonialism of the mind"
D) all of these

Question 17

In this lens of colonialism, the colonized are institutionally, pedagogically, linguistically, and cognitively conquered by the colonizer.

A) structure of domination
B) internal or domestic colonialism
C) "colonialism of the mind"
D) all of these

Question 18

This lens of colonialism includes the subjugation of one group of people to another across political entities.

A) structure of domination
B) internal or domestic colonialism
C) "colonialism of the mind"
D) all of these

Question 19

______ is the name given to the colonies that developed within the Americas.

A) Settler colonies
B) Satellite colonies
C) Monarch colonies
D) both "satellite colonies" and "monarch colonies"

Question 20

What is the contemporary name for the place that Columbus landed in 1492?

A) Cuba
B) Florida
C) Gulf of Mexico
D) Mississippi

Question 21

The Black Code of France did all of the following except ______.

A) legislated life
B) legislated marriage
C) legislated the number of children a slave could have
D) legislated the treatment of slaves by their masters

Question 22

The Black Code of France did what?

A) legislated life
B) legislated marriage
C) legislated the number of children a slave could have
D) both "legislated life" and "legislated marriage"

Question 23

The Black Code of France did what?

A) required slaves to be baptized in the Catholic faith
B) prohibited masters from requiring slaves to work on Sundays
C) prohibited masters from requiring slaves to work on religious holidays
D) all of these

Question 24

The Black Codes of France did what?

A) established who slaves could marry
B) established where slaves could be buried
C) established the conditions under which they could be freed
D) all of these

Question 25

Which of the following is true about the Black Codes of France?

A) It prohibited whites and free-blacks from having sexual relations with slaves.
B) A slave's status could be altered by marrying a free-black.
C) Children born to slave mothers were considered slaves.
D) both "it prohibited whites and free-blacks from having sexual relations with slaves" and "children born to slave mothers were considered slaves"

Question 26

What group of women did French men often form alliances with that were termed left-handed marriages?

A) Hispanic
B) Native American
C) Creole
D) African American

Question 27

What benefit did Creole women receive from entering into left-handed marriages?

A) They were given a household.
B) They gained social status.
C) They did not receive any social benefits.
D) both "they were given a household" and "they gained social status"

Question 28

What view did both the French and British colonists share about the Native Americans that they encountered?

A) the Native Americans were savages
B) the Native Americans needed to be Christianized
C) the Native Americans had functional social systems in place
D) both "the Native Americans were savages" and "the Native Americans needed to be Christianized"

Question 29

In which year did the Plymouth Company's Mayflower reach the New World?

A) 1492
B) 1504
C) 1589
D) 1620

Question 30

Which country had colonies in the New World?

A) France
B) Spain
C) Great Britain
D) all of these

Question 31

Left-handed marriages were referred to as ______ among free people of color.

A) sexual exploitation
B) luck
C) indentured servitude
D) Plaçage

Question 32

In 2016 what percentage of the U.S. population was foreign born?

A) 5
B) 14
C) 21
D) 25

Question 33

Which of the following is true about the demographics of 19 of the 25 largest counties by population in the United States?

A) whites are the majority
B) whites made up less than half of the population
C) blacks are the majority
D) both "whites made up less than half of the population" and "blacks are the majority"

Question 34

Demographic changes in a county influence ______.

A) work and the economy
B) family structures
C) sports
D) all of these

Question 35

Racial violence has occurred in ______.

A) Australia
B) India
C) Rwanda
D) all of these

Question 36

Within the concept of the triple glass ceiling discrimination is based on ______.

A) race
B) gender
C) class
D) all of these

Question 37

Which court case marked the desegregation of schools?

A) Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
B) Plessy vs. Ferguson
C) Loving and Loving vs. the State of Virginia
D) none of these

Question 38

The court case Brown vs. the Board of Education was fought in which state?

A) Pennsylvania
B) Kansas
C) Virginia
D) Massachusetts

Question 39

______ was applied in French colonies to people that were one-fourth black by descent.

A) Quadroon
B) Creole
C) Hispanic
D) Mulatto

Question 40

In New Orleans this type of "ball" was held to celebrate the relationships in high society.

A) creole
B) quadroon
C) slave
D) none of these

Question 41

______ refers to the contested spaces or borders between Spanish, French, and English colonies.

A) Frontiers
B) Borderlands
C) Savage country
D) Free space

Question 42

Which of the following is a counter-narrative to the Turner thesis?

A) that the frontier was made up of sovereign lands controlled by other nations
B) that the frontier was a blank slate of free land
C) that the frontier was just waiting to be settled
D) both "that the frontier was a blank slate of free land" and "that the frontier was just waiting to be settled"

Question 43

Which group of people participated in Bacon's Rebellion of 1676?

A) blacks
B) Irish Scots
C) English bond servants
D) all of these

Question 44

Where did Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 take place?

A) Virginia
B) Massachusetts
C) New York
D) Florida

Question 45

Where did the first significant slave rebellion against the English occur?

A) Gloucester County, Virginia
B) Jamestown, New York
C) Plymouth, Massachusetts
D) none of these

Question 46

The Colonial Ordinance of 1685 is also known as ______.

A) Black Code
B) African Rules of Behavior
C) French Slave Rules
D) African Codes

Question 47

Which of the following was true about the lives of African slaves in the French colonies?

A) they were able to purchase their freedom
B) they had legal recourse through the French courts
C) both "they were able to purchase their freedom" and "they had legal recourse through the French courts"
D) they did not have the same rights as slaves in the Spanish colonies

Question 48

What was the precipitating social cause for the Spanish to use African slave labor?

A) impact of disease on the Native American population
B) impact of warfare on the Native American population
C) impact of overwork on the Native American population
D) all of these

Question 49

Which group was the first to work as slaves in the Spanish colonies?

A) African Americans
B) Native Americans
C) Hispanics
D) Germans

Question 50

Which of the following is true about the rights of slaves in the Spanish colonies?

A) slaves could purchase their own freedom
B) slaves had legal recourse through the Spanish courts
C) the freeing of slaves did not require approval from the Crown
D) all of these

Question 51

______ are governments or social structures that grant political power based on hierarchies of skin tones, regardless of race or social status.

A) Plutocracies
B) Meritocracy
C) Pigmentocracies
D) Democracies

Question 52

In what way were the bodies of women controlled by the racial caste system?

A) the wombs of white women were considered sacred
B) European men had access to all women's bodies
C) sexual relationships were regulated
D) all of these

Question 53

______ was the permanent hierarchy based on race that developed in Spanish America.

A) Racial caste system
B) Phenotypic caste system
C) Social caste system
D) both "racial caste system" and "social caste system"

Question 54

Which of the following is true about gender systems among Native American tribes?

A) they were all egalitarian
B) they were unequal in all tribes
C) they varied across tribal groups
D) none of these

Question 55

In this Native American tribe, women were able to own property, served as religious leaders, and organized most of the subsistence work.

A) Taino
B) Cherokee
C) Pueblo
D) Nez Pierce

Question 56

Riots and civil unrest stemming from race have disrupted a number of U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Oakland, and Baltimore.

Question 57

Asian women lead all other women in annual earnings.

Question 58

Some researchers have documented that American primary and secondary schools are even more segregated by race and class today than they were in the late 1950s.

Question 59

Research show that our online experiences are NOT structured by race, class, and gender.

Question 60

Hundreds of years before Columbus, North America was home to millions of people, and hundreds of population groups, tribes, linguistic, and cultural systems.

Question 61

All Native American communities were small and scattered.

Question 62

A popular theory explains that Native Americans originally came on foot across a glacial bridge between Siberia and Alaska.

Question 63

Many early Native American communities had populations reaching tens of thousands.

Question 64

The American matrix of race is a byproduct of European colonialism.

Question 65

American institutions, including the family, the military, and the legal system, have been shaped by the matrix of race.

Question 66

Discuss the Turner thesis.

Question 67

Identify and discuss two contemporary examples of racial tensions in the United States.

Question 68

Slaves were governed differently by the French and the Spanish. Discuss two specific differences in the ways that slaves were governed.

Question 69

How did British colonists build a tradition of slavery?

Question 70

Discuss the counter-narrative to the Turner thesis.