Soc 011 - Ethnic and Racial Minorities » Fall 2020 » Quiz 3

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Question #1
By the ________, slavery, the practice of owning another person, had been clearly defined in law and in custom.
A.   1550s
B.   1750s
C.   1720s
D.   1650s
Question #2
Which of the following is considered a colonized minority group?
A.   Japanese Americans
B.   Cuban Americans
C.   African Americans
D.   Italian Americans
Question #3
According to the text, the single most important factor in the development of dominant–minority relations is ________.
A.   whether the dominant group is assimilationist or pluralistic
B.   the size of the dominant group
C.   the nature of the contact situation
D.   the degree of industrialization in the larger society
Question #4
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 ________.
A.   children
B.   hypothec
C.   servants
D.   chattel
Question #5
The movement to abolish slavery in the U.S. was called ________.
A.   mutual ethnocentrism
B.   abolitionism
C.   evolution
D.   Quakerism
Question #6
The population of American Indians in the continental United States decreased dramatically by 1890 because ________.
A.   of interracial marriage
B.   warfare and battles led to casualties
C.   of assimilation
D.   American Indians died from a variety of infectious diseases
Question #7
Hawaii first came into contact with Europeans in 1788. For what reason did conquest and colonization not follow the early contact?
A.   The relationship was organized around agriculture.
B.   Contact with the indigenous Hawaiian society brought diseases.
C.   The indigenous Hawaiian plantation owners began to dominate the island economy.
D.   The relationship was organized around trade and commerce.
Question #8
________ minorities often originate as immigrant groups who bring resources and, therefore, have more opportunities than colonized minority groups in the host society.
A.   Ethnic
B.   Enclave
C.   Economic
D.   Racial
Question #9
American Indian societies were generally matriarchal and followed a strict gender-based division of labor in which most men were the subordinates.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #10
Paternalism is characterized as one group having vast power and significantly greater resources, with caste-like barriers between the two groups.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE

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