Deck 12: Stratification, Minorities, and Discrimination

Question 1

The modern influx of Mexican immigration came after 1900 and was:

A) much reduced by the quota laws.
B) not affected by the 1921-1924 quota laws.
C) completely ended in 1964.
D) not related to agricultural job opportunities.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

One place where social scientists have found significant discrimination against blacks is in entry-level jobs and low-skilled positions. In a job applicant experiment:

A) having a criminal record made no difference regardless of assumed racial background.
B) the discrimination was less when both black and white applicants had criminal records.
C) the applicants job history was more important than racial differences.
D) applicants with white-sounding names received many more callbacks than a person with a more African American name.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The first settlers of what is now the United States are called:

A) pilgrims.
B) Native Americans.
C) European colonists.
D) Spanish colonists.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A group of people who identify with each other on the basis of common ancestry and cultural heritage is called a(n):

A) census group.
B) urban network.
C) migrant unit.
D) ethnic group.

Question 5

Affirmative Action programs are designed to:

A) discriminate against minorities.
B) favor minority groups.
C) help majority groups exclude minorities.
D) protect the dominant group.

Question 6

Myrdal states that the race problem in the U.S. is a:

A) simple problem.
B) black problem.
C) white problem.
D) disappearing problem.

Question 7

Social scientists argue that race is:

A) fully determined by physical characteristics.
B) clearly apparent by biological testing.
C) a social term, not an important physical construction.
D) a predictor of greater capacity for development.

Question 8

Groups of people singled out for unequal negative treatment and objects of discrimination are:

A) superior groups.
B) dominant groups.
C) majority groups.
D) minority groups.

Question 9

The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed public school segregation in:

A) 1917.
B) 1906.
C) 1954.
D) 1964.

Question 10

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1896 which was based on the so-called separate-but-equal doctrine was:

A) Brown v. Board of Education.
B) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
C) Plessy v. Ferguson.
D) Bingham v. Cabot.

Question 11

Actions, behavior or treatment based on prejudice are called:

A) inventions.
B) classes.
C) discrimination.
D) systematic.

Question 12

The Emancipation Proclamation changed the legal status of slaves:

A) and ended discrimination.
B) but not their social status.
C) and ended prejudice.
D) and ended unequal treatment.

Question 13

In 2005, the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported which ethnic group to have the highest unemployment?

A) Whites
B) Blacks
C) Hispanics
D) All are reported as equal.

Question 14

The Chinese first came to the U.S. in large numbers when:

A) gold was discovered in California.
B) oil was discovered in Oklahoma.
C) the Revolutionary War ended.
D) the War of 1812 ended.

Question 15

The U.S. Supreme Court decided that at an undergraduate level admission points were too much like affirmative action. The court also held that in admission decisions colleges could:

A) not take race into account.
B) take race into account.
C) use any point-based system giving preferences.
D) take any factor except race into account.

Question 16

Segregation that occurs because of social and cultural, not legal, reasons is called:

A) de jure segregation.
B) unintended segregation.
C) de facto segregation.
D) international segregation.

Question 17

During the nineteenth century the number immigrants coming to the U.S. were about:

A) 1 million.
B) 200 million.
C) 5 million.
D) 30 million.

Question 18

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was to encourage Native American nations to:

A) manage more of their own economic and political affairs.
B) migrate back to Asia.
C) surrender all authority to the Federal Government.
D) move off reservations and give up all political rights.

Question 19

The slave trade out of Africa occurred:

A) as early as 900 A.D.
B) first in 1619 with the slave trade to America.
C) first in the 1800s with the sending of slaves to America.
D) Actually, slaves came from the Caribbean Island, not Africa.

Question 20

Jim Crow laws were part of the:

A) equal opportunity laws in the South.
B) housing integration legislation.
C) voting rights acts.
D) systematic legal segregation of blacks.

Question 21

Race is a social construction only loosely based on a few biological differences.

Question 22

Most early Arab immigrants were from Lebanon and Syria.

Question 23

In the early 2000s women in the workforce as a percentage of total women of working age rose to:

A) 90 percent.
B) 70 percent.
C) 50 percent.
D) 80 percent.

Question 24

The 1986 law passed by Congress to grant amnesty to illegal aliens who have been in this country for more than 5 years effectively resolved the problem of citizenship for illegals.

Question 25

Ethnic divisions in Bosnia and Rwanda in the 1990s led to the tragic slaughter of large numbers of people.

Question 26

In 2000, blacks earned a median income that was only about 60 percent of that earned by whites.

Question 27

From 1960 to 2011, the percentage of blacks completing four years of college rose from 3 percent to about 41.5 percent.

Question 28

The assumption that race determines culture has strong scientific or factual basis.

Question 29

Since 1954 no major civil rights laws have been passed in the U.S.

Question 30

The United States is the only country that has problems with prejudice and discrimination.

Question 31

Of the 52 million U.S. citizens who identify as having Spanish origins, 9 percent gave Puerto Rico as their place of origin.

Question 32

Importation of slaves into the U.S. became illegal in 1808.

Question 33

Hispanics with historical and cultural ties to Latin American are called Latinos.

Question 34

The year 2000 was the first time the U.S. Census Bureau changed its race classification system.

Question 35

The largest minority group in the United States is African-Americans.

Question 36

In 1986 the mandatory retirement age was:

A) eliminated for most occupations.
B) lowered to 65.
C) raised to 70.
D) lowered to 55 for most occupations.

Question 37

The U.S. government forcibly held West Coast people of Japanese descent in camps during:

A) the Civil War.
B) World War II.
C) the Korean War.
D) the Vietnam War.

Question 38

Burnita S. Matthews was the first woman ever appointed as a:

A) college professor in 1950.
B) U.S. Cabinet member in 1990.
C) U.S. Federal Judge in 1949.
D) U.S. Ambassador in 1841.

Question 39

Women whose primary aim was to win the right to vote were called:

A) traditionalists.
B) suffragettes.
C) debaters.
D) pro-legals.

Question 40

In 1950 the U.S. government finally apologized to the surviving Japanese Americans who had been interned.

Question 41

What are the major problems women have experienced as a minority in the U.S.? Discuss the history of the women's movement and gender discrimination in the workplace.

Question 42

Women in the U.S. are referred to as a minority group because there are less women than men in the population.

Question 43

Senior citizens are not likely to be a major political force in the twenty-first century.

Question 44

The average earnings of a woman are still less than the average for a man.

Question 45

What are the causes of racial and ethnic prejudice and discrimination? What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

Question 46

Chronological age often reflects a person's mental age or capacity to work and contribute to society.

Question 47

In 2010, 13 percent of the U.S. population was over 65 years of age.

Question 48

Homosexuals experience discrimination in the U.S.

Question 49

The Equal Rights Amendment was ratified by two-thirds of the states.

Question 50

What is meant by reparations? Who would benefit if reparations were granted? Note one argument for and one argument against such an action.

Question 51

In the early 1990s, when immigration into the United States reached its peak, some 1 million persons were arriving every year.

Question 52

What is the history of prejudice and discrimination in the U.S. toward religious minorities? What is the experience of Jewish and Muslim minority groups?

Question 53

What is the cultural history of Hispanics in the U.S.? Discuss the experiences of Chicanos and Latinos in the U.S.

Question 54

In 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Boy Scouts of America, a private organization, had a right to exclude persons based on their sexual orientation.

Question 55

Anti-Semitism has been eliminated in the U.S.