Deck 5: Race and Oppression: The Experiences of People of Color

Question 1

How did Columbus treat the native people of Hispaniola when he "discovered" the island?

A) He kidnapped them to use as slaves.
B) He treated them as a culture from which much could be learned.
C) He partnered with them to mine gold on the island.
D) He took many of them back to Spain as a novelty item to the King and Queen's court.

Answer 1

He kidnapped them to use as slaves.

Question 2

Medical practices of indigenous peoples

A) Were well-respected by early European immigrants.
B) Were scorned by early European immigrants.
C) Based almost entirely on shamanist practices unrelated to more modern medicine.
D) Provide a foundation for much of what modern medicine has become.

Answer 2

Provide a foundation for much of what modern medicine has become.

Question 3

In terms of tribal governance and equality, Cherokee women

A) Were considered subservient to the men of the tribe in all matters.
B) Were treated as equals within the tribe and allowed to participate in tribal governance.
C) Were honored as mothers but not allowed to participate in the governing of the tribe.
D) Were allowed to listen at tribal gathering but not allowed to participate.

Answer 3

Were treated as equals within the tribe and allowed to participate in tribal governance.

Question 4

The main conflict between European colonists and Native Americans was over land. What principle refers to peaceful seizure of land that was considered to be underutilized by the indigenous people?

A) Terra nullius
B) Vacuum domicilium
C) Occupatio bellica
D) Nomadis peoplius

Question 5

Treaties signed by the United States and Native American tribes

A) Are strictly honored by the United States government.
B) Are usually advantageous to both parties.
C) Resulted in financial gains for Native American tribes.
D) Are agreements between sovereign nations.

Question 6

Although Native Americans were relegated to reservations they were allowed to

A) Hunt and fish on tribal lands outside their reservation borders
B) Marry Native Americans from other reservations.
C) Live off the reservation if they were working and providing for their family.
D) Travel west to settle on unclaimed lands.

Question 7

Use of Native American depictions or references as school mascots

A) Is appropriate when proper Indian delegates have seen and agree with the depiction or reference.
B) Have been denounced as racist and offensive not only by individual Native Americans but by most Native American tribal councils.
C) Is objectionable to most sports fans.
D) Is reasonable when used to "honor" and show respect for Native American Culture.

Question 8

Revenue from gambling facilities on Indian Reservations

A) Has corrupted Indian culture and tradition.
B) Makes up for much of what was lost in terms of Indian culture and tradition.
C) Provides adequate financial resources to ensure that Indian culture and tradition is passed down to future generations.
D) Accounts for very little of the overall income of the Native American population.

Question 9

Which of the following was not characteristic of the middle passage?

A) Suicide was a major cause of death
B) One out of three slaves died during middle passage
C) Disease such as typhoid, small pox, and yellow fever were rampant
D) Corpses of dead slaves were routinely thrown overboard

Question 10

What was the result of black soldiers fighting for the colonies during the Revolutionary War?

A) They returned to being slaves once the war was over.
B) Their bravery refuted pervasive stereotypes.
C) Washington freed any slaves who fought in the war.
D) Blacks often received no compensation as a result of service.

Question 11

When the Constitution of the United States was drafted, how were slaves counted in determining political representation?

A) They were not counted when determining political representation
B) Each slave was considered a person in determining representation but only men were allowed to vote.
C) They were counted as three fifths of a person
D) Each male slave was counted as one half a person.

Question 12

What was the purpose of the Congressional Enlistment Act?

A) It denied black men the right to enlist in Union Civil War regiments.
B) It established lower pay for black regiments fighting in the Civil War.
C) It allowed Union soldiers to take slaves from the Confederacy and enlist them in Union regiments.
D) It allowed Confederate regiments to force slaves to fight for the Confederacy

Question 13

How did Booker T. Washington approach education for blacks in the south?

A) He believed black people would accept inequality if they could have economic opportunity.
B) He thought education was the key to equality between the races.
C) He wanted to train blacks to do the work usually reserved for white people such as doctors, engineers and pharmacists.
D) He marched on Washington, DC. demanding equal funding for the education of black children and white children.

Question 14

In the 1910s, a massive immigration of blacks from south to north occurred as a result of

A) Better schooling for blacks in northern cities.
B) The open communities being created as a result of the Harlem Renaissance.
C) Continued racism and oppression by southern whites.
D) The interruption of European immigration caused by WWI which resulted in labor shortages.

Question 15

The ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education

A) Was more of a moral than practical victory as segregation has persisted throughout America's system of education.
B) Marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement.
C) Effectively desegregated thousands of southern schools and ushered in the Civil Rights Movement.
D) Resulted in the concept of separate but equal.

Question 16

By 1968, the percentage of blacks that were registered to vote was the same as for whites, at

A) 24%
B) 45%
C) 60%
D) 82%

Question 17

What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

A) To prohibit Chinese prostitutes from being imported by entrepreneurs
B) To forbid interracial marriage
C) To exclude Chinese born citizens from participating in government
D) To prohibit Chinese immigration for the next ten years

Question 18

In the early 1900s, Yellow Peril was reported by California newspapers as

A) Reference to the disproportionate number of Asian immigrants who were male to those who were female.
B) A reference to the numbers of Asian immigrants who were engaging in collective entrepreneurship.
C) Challenges faced by Asian immigrants as a result of crossing the Pacific.
D) A belief that Japanese immigrants would not Americanize.

Question 19

Which of the following was not a result of the Alien Land Law of 1920 prohibiting non-U.S. citizens from owning or leasing land?

A) A new Alien Land Law was passed that prohibited the use of children's names to buy or lease land.
B) Hostility was lessened because they were not in competition with whites anymore for agricultural jobs
C) Japanese immigrant were further isolated and alienated from participating in the U.S.
D) Japanese immigrants leased land through the Nisei, their American-born children.

Question 20

Why were Filipino immigrants restricted to 50 people annually in 1934?

A) They tended to be active in labor unions which caused resentment.
B) They refused to fight during WWI and later in WWII.
C) There were too many Filipinos in urban areas already and the government wanted to balance out the number of immigrant populations.
D) They brought with them diseases people already in the U.S. were not immune to.

Question 21

According to Fong and Shinagawa, several harmful distractions created by the model minority myth include all but which of the following?

A) The model minority myth places undue pressure on young Asian Americans to educationally and professionally succeed
B) The model minority myth fuels competition and resentment between Asian Americans and other groups
C) The model minority myth detracts from both the subtle and overt racial discrimination encountered by Asian Americans
D) The model minority myth distorts gender differences between and within minorities

Question 22

What led to a large Mexican immigration to the U.S. in the 1880s?

A) They were recruited to work in the U.S. after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
B) The U.S. won millions of square miles from Mexico in the Mexican-American War and offered Mexicans U.S. citizenship.
C) There was a drought in Mexico which destroyed farm land and led to mass famine.
D) They were recruited to rid the Southwest of Indians who were still living there.

Question 23

American attitudes towards Mexican Americans during WWII

A) Remained strained as most Mexican-Americans refused to support the war effort.
B) Improved as a result of labor shortages created by increases in military service and the internment of Japanese immigrants.
C) Worsened as a result of the zoot-suit riots.
D) Improved as the U.S. became more open-minded about their continental allies.

Question 24

What group makes up the largest Spanish speaking ethnic group in the United States?

A) Cuban Americans
B) Puerto Rican Americans
C) Columbian Americans
D) Mexican Americans

Question 25

How did Puerto Rico become a territory of the United States?

A) The United States gained control over Puerto Rico as a result of the Spanish-American War.
B) The United States gained control over Puerto Rico as a result of the Mexican- American War.
C) Puerto Rico requested the U.S. to take control of them in order to avoid being controlled by the Spanish government.
D) Puerto Rico was originally discovered by Columbus and he claimed the land for the colonies.

Question 26

What effect did the shift in the numbers of independently owned farms to corporately owned farms have on Puerto Rico?

A) Puerto Rico's economy flourished as a result of large increases in agricultural production.
B) Puerto Rico's population doubled in size as a result increased food availability which leads to better health for the population.
C) The economy changed from small farms producing food to meet the local need to large farms hiring low-wage workers and exporting their products.
D) Factory jobs flourished and the over-all rate of unemployment declined.

Question 27

Why do Puerto Ricans have a higher unemployment rate than other Latino groups in the United States?

A) They have settled in urban areas where there is a lack of unskilled and semiskilled jobs.
B) They have a harder time gaining U.S. citizenship and green cards in order to work than other groups.
C) They have refused to learn English or assimilate well into the culture.
D) They will not send their children to U.S. public schools, preferring to educate them in their homes.

Question 28

Which group of Latino immigrants has the highest median household incomes?

A) Puerto Rican Americans
B) Mexican Americans
C) Cuban Americans
D) Dominican Americans

Question 29

Immigrants arriving from Central America typically come to the U.S. to

A) Access to better education.
B) Escape political turmoil and violence.
C) Join relatives who have preciously immigrated.
D) Earn higher wages.

Question 30

Mexican Americans responses to discrimination after World War II included all but

A) Mendez v. Westminster School District
B) Brown v. Board of Education
C) Cesar Chavez Movement
D) La Raza Unida

Question 31

Explain why it is inappropriate to use Native American images as mascots for sports teams.

Question 32

How were blacks treated in the new South after the Civil War?

Question 33

Compare the messages of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois.

Question 34

How does the model minority myth create resentment among people of color toward Asian Americans?

Question 35

Differentiate why certain specific Hispanic and Latino/a groups began to immigrate to the United States.