Question 1

What is the difference between indentured servitude and slavery?

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Question 2

Racism refers to:

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A)  the belief that races are populations whose mental differences are linked to significant cultural and social differences. 
B)  the practice of subordinating races believed to be inferior. 
C)  hating a person of a different skin color. 
D)  None of the above.

Question 3

What role did religion play in colonizing the Indigenous tribes?

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Question 4

Why were colonists unsuccessful in capturing and enslaving the native people of Virginia?

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Question 5

The journey for 12.5 million Africans who were kidnapped and sold into slavery was called

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A)  The Triangle Trade. 
B)  The Great Slave Trade. 
C)  The Middle Passage. 
D)  The Diasporic Journey.

Question 6

What kinds of abuse were the Spaniards known for committing?

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Question 7

What was the role of colonization in slavery?

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Question 8

What kind of treatment did African slaves get before 1660?

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Question 9

The ______________set an important historical precedent for current understandings of race.

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A)  Egyptian invasion of Asia 
B)  Spanish invasion of the Caribbean 
C)  Greco-Persian Wars 
D)  conflicts between England and Ireland

Question 10

What role did Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus play in classifying racial groups?

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Question 11

Latin American countries responded to European ideas of White superiority by:

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A)  creating anti-miscegenation laws. 
B)  banning Europeans from entering. 
C)  arguing that racial mixture was a mark of progress. 
D)  selling White slaves.

Question 12

What role does genetics play in explaining the physical differences between racial groups?

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Question 13

What does colonialism mean?

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Question 14

Name three (3) ways that Enslaved Africans and their descendants built up America and its economy.

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Exam 1: The Origin of the Idea of Race