Which group benefited the most from the Gold Rush of 1849?
a. Tejanos
b. Californios
c. American Indians
d. Anglos
All of the following were methods of coercive acculturation of American Indians except
a. the Dawes Act.
b. increased self-governance.
c. boarding Schools.
d. the reservation system.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 required all eastern tribes to move to new lands west
of the Mississippi.
a. True
b. False
In the United States, deindustrialization tended to increase men’s wages.
a. True
b. False
In the 1970 and 1980s, most Supreme Court decisions supporting the constitutionality
of affirmative action programs involved__________ policies of discrimination.
a. blatant
b. economic
c. justifiable
d. subtle
The education gap between whites and blacks has generally declined over time, except
in regard to advanced degrees where racial differences remain significant.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following are not true of paternalistic systems?
a. They seek to directly dominate and control the minority group.
b. They require members of the minority group to be active (albeit involuntary)
participants in that system.
c. They tend to develop into “rigid” or competitive group relations.
d. They tend to have a simple division of labor determined by the group.
e. All of the above
The goals of separatism are for the group to sever all ties (political, cultural, and
geographic) with the larger society.
a. True
b. False
One difference between Nigerians and Ethiopians is:
a. more Ethiopian immigrants are refugees and asylum seekers.
b. more Nigerian immigrants are refugees and asylum seekers.
c. Ethiopians have higher English fluency.
d. B and C
e. None of the above
According to your book, Max Weber thought it was important to analyze stratification
within the level of development of a society such as whether it is an agricultural or
postindustrial society.
a. True
b. False
Deindustrialization, the shift from manufacturing to service and information jobs, has
resulted:
a. In the loss of millions of high-paying and unionized manufacturing jobs
b. In the movement of many industrial jobs to other nations
c. From automation and robotics increasing in factories
d. In new jobs that are high-end and technical, or low-pay, low-skill jobs with few
benefits or security
e. All of the above
Selective perception:
a. Is a tendency to see only what one expects to see
b. Can strengthen and reinforce stereotypes
c. Is a tendency to see beyond one’s own observations
d. Both A and C above
Two of the three largest groups of Hispanic Americans include Mexican Americans and
Cuban Americans.
a. True
b. False
What delayed the second generation of Chinese Americans?
a. A scarcity of Chinese women following the Chinese Exclusion Act
b. The legalization of birth control in the state of California
c. A rapid growth of ethnic enclaves such as Chinatowns
d. The urbanization of the invisible minority
Survival and success in the United States for all minority groups has had more to do
with group processes than with individual will or motivation.
a. True
b. False
The primary opponents of Chinese in America were:
a. The native-born workers and organized labor
b. Mexican workers who needed the jobs held by Chinese
c. Native Americans who felt extreme threats from Chinese land speculators
d. None of the above
e. All of the above
Robert Parks believed that intergroup relations go through a predictable set of phases
that is called “Race Relations Cycle.”
a. True
b. False
Reorganization is to the __________ as self-determination is to the __________.
a. 1800s; 1900s
b. 1920s; 1980s
c. 1930s; 1960s
d. 1970s; 2010s
After the reservation system was established, American Indians continued to lose land
and other resources.
a. True
b. False
Jobs, welfare reform, and health care are examples of issues that are also objects of
a. personalization.
b. determinism.
c. competition.
d. ethnocentrism.
When two groups who are in contact with one another each feel that their culture and
way of life is superior, judging the other culture by their own standards, this is called:
a. Racism
b. Selective perception
c. Mutual ethnocentrism
d. Prejudice
e. Discrimination
Many of the treaties established during the 1800s have been broken, although some
tribes have had success regaining treaty rights through the court system.
a. True
b. False
Cuban Americans and Jewish Americans have been particularly likely to establish
ethnic enclaves.
a. True
b. False
The revival of white ethnicity in the 1960s was primarily fueled by
a. an increase in symbolic ethnicity.
b. the political focus on the white ethnic vote.
c. the competition for resources and opportunities.
b. a world-wide desire to understand one’s culture and connect with one’s roots.
Societies are divided into horizontal layers (or strata) called social classes, classes that
differ from one another by the amount of resources they command.
a. True
b. False
The American response to Haitian immigration differed from the response to Cuban
immigration due to:
a. Language limitations of Haitians
b. Low levels of human capital brought by Haitian immigrants
c. Racial identity
d. A and B only
e. A, B, and C
The increasing interconnectedness of people, groups, organizations,
and nations is referred to as
a. globalization.
b. assimilation
c. immigration.
d. pluralism
Attitudes associated with modern racism are consistent with human capital theory.
a. True
b. False
Research on segmented assimilation suggests that human capital, family structure, and
modes of incorporation are the three factors that determine successful adaptation for
immigrants.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following factors account for the differences in the development of
Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans and other racial minority groups?
a. The dominant group had no desire to control the labor of these groups.
b. Chinese and Japanese Americans in the early twentieth century presented no military
danger to the larger society.
c. Chinese and Japanese Americans had the ingredients and experiences necessary to
form enclaves.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
The creation of minority group status largely depends on:
a. The size of the dominant group
b. The nature of the contact situation
c. Whether the dominant group is assimilationist or pluralistic
d. The degree of industrialization in the larger society
e. The degree of mutual ethnocentrism
As the industrial revolution spread throughout Europe, parallel patterns of emigration
from Europe to the United States occurred.
a. True
b. False