Deck 9: Race As a Cultural Construction

Question 1

On the subject of human races it can be said that

A) there is biological support for dividing people into races.
B) race is a cultural construct.
C) race never played a big part in U.S. history.
D) race was never an aspect of U.S. immigration laws

Answer 1

race is a cultural construct.

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson

A) engaged in miscegenation.
B) held true to his beliefs that mixing of the races was wrong.
C) included Americans of African descent in the principles of equality.
D) was an abolitionist.

Answer 2

engaged in miscegenation.

Question 3

In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court

A) determined that slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person for determining political representation in the federal government.
B) held that those of African descent could not be citizens of the United States.
C) determined that freed slaves had the right to vote.
D) had nothing to do with slavery in the United States.

Answer 3

held that those of African descent could not be citizens of the United States.

Question 4

Jim Crow Laws

A) were only found in the northern states.
B) provided for the rights of freed slaves to vote.
C) was supported by Brown v. Board of Education
D) mandated that the races be separated.

Question 5

Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court decided that

A) those of African descent were best served by attending separate schools.
B) he was in support of the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
C) separate but equal education was inherently unequal.
D) segregated schools made children of color feel superior.

Question 6

Despite the eyewitness testimony of Mose Wright

A) those who tortured and killed Emmett Till were acquitted.
B) those who tortured and killed Emmett Till were sent to prison.
C) separate but equal was upheld by Jim Crow laws.
D) Emmett Till was found guilty of violating the code of behavior of those who lived in Chicago.

Question 7

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

A) opened citizenship to Asians.
B) never became part of the U.S. Constitution.
C) supported the Dred Scott decision.
D) gave citizenship to all those born in the United States.

Question 8

Xenophobia is the

A) the preference of the native born over immigrants.
B) fear of Asians
C) fear of spiders.
D) fear of strangers

Question 9

President Lyndon B Johnson

A) proposed the Morning in America slogan for the U.S.
B) signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
C) furthered attempts to keep Asians out of the U.S.
D) refused to sign the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Question 10

Affirmative Action policies

A) continue to have strong public support
B) have been highly supported by the U.S. Supreme Court
C) are contested social and legal issues.
D) were necessary because of the Cold War.

Question 11

Race is based on the fact that people from different parts of the world have different biological traits that appear in exclusive clusters.

Question 12

From the establishment of the United States, political inequality based on race has been an aspect of American society.

Question 13

The Dred Scott case furthered the cause of the abolitionists' struggle to end slavery.

Question 14

The United States has a long history of excluding immigrants from non-European countries based on racial biases.

Question 15

Reverse discrimination violates the right to equal protection of the law provided by the U.S. Constitution.

Question 16

_______________ was a Founder who seemingly believed in principles of equality but owned slaves.

Question 17

_______________ argued before U.S. Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education case.

Question 18

________________ was a fourteen-year-old who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by white supremacists for speaking to a white woman.

Question 19

_______________ brought an issue to the U.S. Supreme Court concerning a complaint of reverse discrimination in medical school applications.

Question 20

_______________, an African American, was chained to a bumper and dragged to his death behind a truck in a hate crime.