Question 1

The group-oriented nature of enslaved Black women's work allowed for the creation of networks to shape forms of resistance.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Whites benefited from the system of slavery regardless of whether they owned slaves.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

A level of acculturation is necessary for colonized groups to survive.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

"Enslaved Africans' labor is exploited for the benefit of landowning whites." This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Accepted Answer

A)  Weber 
B)  Noel 
C)  Lenski 
D)  Blauner 
E)  Marx

Question 5

Which of the following statements about a caste system is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Systematic inequalities are not apparent in the caste system. 
B)  Slavery is not part of the caste system, or closed stratification system. 
C)  The caste system is an open stratification system. 
D)  There is mobility between social positions, and their ascribed status is not permanent. 
E)  There is no mobility between social positions, and their ascribed status is permanent.

Question 6

The first Africans to come to the British colonies were probably indentured servants rather than slaves.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The form of competition between groups is often influenced by the ______ of a society.

Accepted Answer

A)  social structure 
B)  degree of stratification 
C)  economic inequality 
D)  subsistence technology 
E)  affective prejudice

Question 8

What is a significant component of slavery related to ideas about enslaved Africans' humanity?

Accepted Answer

A)  The paternalist system allowed Whites to maintain an appearance of tolerance. 
B)  Africans were originally indentured servants. 
C)  Enslaved Africans were defined as chattel. 
D)  Enslavement prevented Africans from developing political power. 
E)  Enslaved Africans struggled to directly challenge the institution of slavery.

Question 9

Immigrant minority groups are involuntary participants in the host society.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

According to the Noel hypothesis, what will be the result of contact between groups that features ethnocentrism, competition between groups, and a differential in power?

Accepted Answer

A)  assimilation 
B)  some system of inequality between the groups 
C)  some conflict followed by cultural pluralism 
D)  integration without acculturation 
E)  warfare

Question 11

Hawaiians first came into contact with Europeans in 1788. Conquest and colonization did not follow the early contact because ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  the relationship was organized around agriculture 
B)  the relationship was organized around trade and commerce 
C)  contact with the indigenous Hawaiian society brought diseases 
D)  the indigenous Hawaiian plantation owners began to dominate the island economy 
E)  Hawaiian laws banned entire groups from public institutions or practices

Question 12

Slavery was a caste system, or a(n) ______ stratification system.

Accepted Answer

A)  open 
B)  closed 
C)  flexible 
D)  fluid 
E)  stable

Question 13

Daily acts of noncooperation performed by enslaved Africans had little significance for challenging the institution of slavery.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Native reservations, like slave plantations, could be considered paternalistic systems with a colonized group.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Apply Noel's hypothesis to the contact situations of African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans. Link the differences in contact situations to the systems of group relationships that developed. Explain how the differences in the contact situation led to different relationships with the dominant group for each minority group.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Apply Noel's hypothesis to the contact situations...

Question 16

According to Robert Blauner, the way in which immigrant and colonized groups come into contact with each other has consequences that persist long after the original contact.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Native American societies were generally matriarchal and followed a strict gender-based division of labor in which most men were the subordinates.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The label Native American is used to refer to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  hundreds of different tribes and nations 
B)  the first immigrants to arrive to the continent 
C)  a nationality 
D)  a single racial group identified by distinguishable visual traits 
E)  a single ethnic group with common cultural traditions

Question 19

Attempts at acculturation by various Native American tribes often resulted in the increase of status and power by Native American women.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The plantation elite designed and enacted an elaborate system of laws and customs that gave masters total legal power over slaves. In these laws, slaves were defined as ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  laborers 
B)  children 
C)  chattel 
D)  servants 
E)  indentured

Exam 3: The Development of Dominantminority Relations in Preindustrial America: The Origins of Slavery

The group-oriented nature of enslaved Black women's work allowed for the creation of networks to shape forms of resistance.

Whites benefited from the system of slavery regardless of whether they owned slaves.

A level of acculturation is necessary for colonized groups to survive.

"Enslaved Africans' labor is exploited for the benefit of landowning whites." This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Which of the following statements about a caste system is true?

The first Africans to come to the British colonies were probably indentured servants rather than slaves.

The form of competition between groups is often influenced by the ______ of a society.

What is a significant component of slavery related to ideas about enslaved Africans' humanity?

Immigrant minority groups are involuntary participants in the host society.

According to the Noel hypothesis, what will be the result of contact between groups that features ethnocentrism, competition between groups, and a differential in power?

Hawaiians first came into contact with Europeans in 1788. Conquest and colonization did not follow the early contact because ______.

Slavery was a caste system, or a(n) ______ stratification system.

Daily acts of noncooperation performed by enslaved Africans had little significance for challenging the institution of slavery.

Native reservations, like slave plantations, could be considered paternalistic systems with a colonized group.

According to Robert Blauner, the way in which immigrant and colonized groups come into contact with each other has consequences that persist long after the original contact.

Native American societies were generally matriarchal and followed a strict gender-based division of labor in which most men were the subordinates.

The label Native American is used to refer to ______.

Attempts at acculturation by various Native American tribes often resulted in the increase of status and power by Native American women.

The plantation elite designed and enacted an elaborate system of laws and customs that gave masters total legal power over slaves. In these laws, slaves were defined as ______.