Question 1

Structuration Theory includes the concept of agency which refers to

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A) micro-level social activities that influence the macro-level society. 
B) macro-level societal influences on the micro-level social activities. 
C) social institutions that maintain the status quo. 
D) social institutions that challenge the status quo. 
A) micro-level social activities that influence the macro-level society. 
B) macro-level societal influences on the micro-level social activities. 
C) social institutions that maintain the status quo. 
D) social institutions that challenge the status quo.

Question 2

An "abroadwife" was the name given to ...

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A) plantation owners' wives because they frequently traveled to Europe. 
B) slave women who lived on different plantations than their husbands. 
C) slave women who were allowed to legally marry their husbands. 
D) African American women who were married during the sharecropping period. 
A) plantation owners' wives because they frequently traveled to Europe. 
B) slave women who lived on different plantations than their husbands. 
C) slave women who were allowed to legally marry their husbands. 
D) African American women who were married during the sharecropping period.

Question 3

Under the sharecropping system,landowners

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A) required African American women and children to work in the fields. 
B) forbid African American women and children from working in the fields so women could do household work and children could go to school. 
C) required African American children to work in the fields but forbid women from helping in the fields so women could do their household work and take care of large vegetable gardens. 
D) paid a small wage to the male head of the family for the family's work. 
A) required African American women and children to work in the fields. 
B) forbid African American women and children from working in the fields so women could do household work and children could go to school. 
C) required African American children to work in the fields but forbid women from helping in the fields so women could do their household work and take care of large vegetable gardens. 
D) paid a small wage to the male head of the family for the family's work.

Question 4

Which of the following is true regarding the legal relationship between slave parents and their children?

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A) Children could not be sold away from their parents until they were seven years of age. 
B) Children could not be sold away from their parents until they were 13 years of age. 
C) Children could not be sold until they were adults at age 18 unless they were sold together with their mother. 
D) Slave parents had no legal rights regarding their children who could be sold away from them at anytime. 
A) Children could not be sold away from their parents until they were seven years of age. 
B) Children could not be sold away from their parents until they were 13 years of age. 
C) Children could not be sold until they were adults at age 18 unless they were sold together with their mother. 
D) Slave parents had no legal rights regarding their children who could be sold away from them at anytime.

Question 5

Today more and more women from Mexico,Honduras,Ecuador and other Latin American countries are coming to the United States as the demand for their labor grows.Aulette reports that

Accepted Answer

A) these are mostly single women without husbands and children who live cooperatively with four or five other Latina women. 
B) they join together with other family members,mostly brothers,sisters and cousins. 
C) they bring their children to join husbands thus reuniting split families. 
D) many of them are leaving their children behind in their country of origin. 
A) these are mostly single women without husbands and children who live cooperatively with four or five other Latina women. 
B) they join together with other family members,mostly brothers,sisters and cousins. 
C) they bring their children to join husbands thus reuniting split families. 
D) many of them are leaving their children behind in their country of origin.

Question 6

Historians and sociologists cited in Aulette differ in their explanations of the decrease of equality between men and women as African American families moved from slavery to sharecropping.Some suggest that men were attempting to vindicate their manhood by asserting authority over women.Others suggest that ...

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A) the seclusion of women in nuclear families with men handling the direct contact with white landowners and merchants was a strategy to protect women from a real threat. 
B) the families were merely imitating what they saw in white families and following the norms of Anglo culture. 
C) patriarchy is the natural order of things and will happen in the absence of inhibiting factors such as slavery. 
D) the claim is a myth and African American families maintained equality. 
A) the seclusion of women in nuclear families with men handling the direct contact with white landowners and merchants was a strategy to protect women from a real threat. 
B) the families were merely imitating what they saw in white families and following the norms of Anglo culture. 
C) patriarchy is the natural order of things and will happen in the absence of inhibiting factors such as slavery. 
D) the claim is a myth and African American families maintained equality.

Question 7

During slavery,slaves were viewed as property by the legal system.They had no legal rights

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A) except they had the legal right to marry if their owner approved. 
B) and they were not allowed to legally marry. 
C) but married slaves could not be forced to have sex with a slave owner. 
D) but slave owners could not separate slave children from their mothers until they reached the age of 15. 
A) except they had the legal right to marry if their owner approved. 
B) and they were not allowed to legally marry. 
C) but married slaves could not be forced to have sex with a slave owner. 
D) but slave owners could not separate slave children from their mothers until they reached the age of 15.

Question 8

Chinese workers were unlikely to bring their families with them to the United States in the 1800's for all of the following are reasons EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A) Chinese men enjoyed the freedom of traveling back and forth between the United States and China every year or two. 
B) Families in China believed that if the man left his wife and children behind he would be more likely to return and more likely to send money back home. 
C) The United State government forbade Chinese women from entering the country after 1882. 
D) They feared racial harassment and attacks in the United States. 
A) Chinese men enjoyed the freedom of traveling back and forth between the United States and China every year or two. 
B) Families in China believed that if the man left his wife and children behind he would be more likely to return and more likely to send money back home. 
C) The United State government forbade Chinese women from entering the country after 1882. 
D) They feared racial harassment and attacks in the United States.

Question 9

What was the difference between the childbearing rates of black women in the border states and black women in the lower South?

Accepted Answer

A) Women in the border states gave birth to more children than those in the lower South. 
B) Women in the border states gave birth to fewer children than those in the lower South. 
C) Women in both places had about the same,unusually-high birth rates. 
D) Women in both places had about the same,unusually-low birth rates 
A) Women in the border states gave birth to more children than those in the lower South. 
B) Women in the border states gave birth to fewer children than those in the lower South. 
C) Women in both places had about the same,unusually-high birth rates. 
D) Women in both places had about the same,unusually-low birth rates

Question 10

Interviews with African-American women during the sharecropping era revealed that they

Accepted Answer

A) became full-time homemakers and left the fieldwork and paid employment to men. 
B) wanted to work full-time either in the field and as domestics for white employers to make money and improve the living standard of their families. 
C) were pressured against their will by the white community to work more in the field and to take low-paid employment doing domestic work for white families. 
D) refused to do fieldwork which they defined as men's work and sought part-time work as domestics to earn income. 
A) became full-time homemakers and left the fieldwork and paid employment to men. 
B) wanted to work full-time either in the field and as domestics for white employers to make money and improve the living standard of their families. 
C) were pressured against their will by the white community to work more in the field and to take low-paid employment doing domestic work for white families. 
D) refused to do fieldwork which they defined as men's work and sought part-time work as domestics to earn income.

Question 11

The Great Migration between 1910 and 1930 refers to African Americans moving from

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A) the South to the North. 
B) plantations to individuals farms. 
C) the United States to Africa. 
D) manufacturing jobs to domestic jobs. 
A) the South to the North. 
B) plantations to individuals farms. 
C) the United States to Africa. 
D) manufacturing jobs to domestic jobs.

Question 12

What proportion of African Americans were free during the slavery era?

Accepted Answer

A) 5% 
B) 10% 
C) 15% 
D) 20% 
A) 5% 
B) 10% 
C) 15% 
D) 20%

Question 13

During the period of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War,former slave owners re-enslaved African Americans under the age of 21 through

Accepted Answer

A) legal quasi-adoption of orphans and other children whose parents could not care for them. 
B) indentured servitude if their parents were not legally married or were declared as not employing the children in honest industrious occupations. 
C) legal guardianship by declaring parents "unfit" often without any evidence supporting the claim. 
D) labeling it a substitution for payments of the debts of their parents. 
A) legal quasi-adoption of orphans and other children whose parents could not care for them. 
B) indentured servitude if their parents were not legally married or were declared as not employing the children in honest industrious occupations. 
C) legal guardianship by declaring parents "unfit" often without any evidence supporting the claim. 
D) labeling it a substitution for payments of the debts of their parents.

Question 14

Lacking the large,lucrative cotton plantations of the Deep South,slave owners in the border states developed an industry of using slaves for

Accepted Answer

A) tobacco farming. 
B) semi-skilled and skilled crafts. 
C) the production of children slaves. 
D) unskilled factory work. 
A) tobacco farming. 
B) semi-skilled and skilled crafts. 
C) the production of children slaves. 
D) unskilled factory work.

Question 15

Which form of family organization became dominant among African American sharecroppers after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A) Extended-family households. 
B) Nuclear families. 
C) Transitional cohabitation. 
D) Single-parent families. 
A) Extended-family households. 
B) Nuclear families. 
C) Transitional cohabitation. 
D) Single-parent families.

Question 16

African American sharecropping families were likely to be

Accepted Answer

A) male-dominated nuclear families. 
B) female-dominated nuclear families. 
C) split families with men working on plantations far away from their wives and children. 
D) matriarchal extended families. 
A) male-dominated nuclear families. 
B) female-dominated nuclear families. 
C) split families with men working on plantations far away from their wives and children. 
D) matriarchal extended families.

Question 17

Industrialization of the South and the growing demands for factory laborers

Accepted Answer

A) brought African American women and men from agricultural into manufacturing jobs. 
B) brought African American men into the factories but barred African American women from that work. 
C) pulled African American women out of their jobs as maids and into the factories. 
D) pulled whites into factory jobs but left African American women and men in the fields. 
A) brought African American women and men from agricultural into manufacturing jobs. 
B) brought African American men into the factories but barred African American women from that work. 
C) pulled African American women out of their jobs as maids and into the factories. 
D) pulled whites into factory jobs but left African American women and men in the fields.

Question 18

Structuration Theory divides social structure into four clusters.These include all EXCEPT

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A) symbolic orders 
B) political institutions 
C) religious institutions 
D) laws 
A) symbolic orders 
B) political institutions 
C) religious institutions 
D) laws

Question 19

The controversial film,Salt of the Earth,was based on an actual event in the 1950's New Mexico during which

Accepted Answer

A) the wives of striking male miners marched on the picket lines while the men took over the wives' usual household duties. 
B) members of several different churches joined together in an unprecedented ecumenical cooperative effort to rebuild a public school after hate-motivated arson. 
C) a diverse but previously racially segregated community peacefully integrated their schools and improved the quality of education for everyone. 
D) Native Americans won their court case closing the infamous,harsh boarding schools and requiring the government to build community schools on all reservations. 
A) the wives of striking male miners marched on the picket lines while the men took over the wives' usual household duties. 
B) members of several different churches joined together in an unprecedented ecumenical cooperative effort to rebuild a public school after hate-motivated arson. 
C) a diverse but previously racially segregated community peacefully integrated their schools and improved the quality of education for everyone. 
D) Native Americans won their court case closing the infamous,harsh boarding schools and requiring the government to build community schools on all reservations.

Question 20

The ritual of "jumping the broom" refers to ...

Accepted Answer

A) the act of slaves running away from the plantation. 
B) a secret code used by the Underground Railroad to warn runaways of search parties. 
C) resistance to Jim Crow laws in which African Americans ignored "whites only" signs. 
D) the practice of a slave couple jumping over a broom as a symbol of their commitment to one another regardless of their legal right to marry. 
A) the act of slaves running away from the plantation. 
B) a secret code used by the Underground Railroad to warn runaways of search parties. 
C) resistance to Jim Crow laws in which African Americans ignored "whites only" signs. 
D) the practice of a slave couple jumping over a broom as a symbol of their commitment to one another regardless of their legal right to marry.

Structuration Theory includes the concept of agency which refers to

An "abroadwife" was the name given to ...

Under the sharecropping system,landowners

Which of the following is true regarding the legal relationship between slave parents and their children?

Today more and more women from Mexico,Honduras,Ecuador and other Latin American countries are coming to the United States as the demand for their labor grows.Aulette reports that

During slavery,slaves were viewed as property by the legal system.They had no legal rights

Chinese workers were unlikely to bring their families with them to the United States in the 1800's for all of the following are reasons EXCEPT:

What was the difference between the childbearing rates of black women in the border states and black women in the lower South?

Interviews with African-American women during the sharecropping era revealed that they

The Great Migration between 1910 and 1930 refers to African Americans moving from

What proportion of African Americans were free during the slavery era?

During the period of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War,former slave owners re-enslaved African Americans under the age of 21 through

Lacking the large,lucrative cotton plantations of the Deep South,slave owners in the border states developed an industry of using slaves for

Which form of family organization became dominant among African American sharecroppers after the Civil War?

African American sharecropping families were likely to be

Industrialization of the South and the growing demands for factory laborers

Structuration Theory divides social structure into four clusters.These include all EXCEPT

The controversial film,Salt of the Earth,was based on an actual event in the 1950's New Mexico during which

The ritual of "jumping the broom" refers to ...

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Structuration Theory includes the concept of agency which refers to

An "abroadwife" was the name given to ...

Under the sharecropping system,landowners

Which of the following is true regarding the legal relationship between slave parents and their children?

Today more and more women from Mexico,Honduras,Ecuador and other Latin American countries are coming to the United States as the demand for their labor grows.Aulette reports that

During slavery,slaves were viewed as property by the legal system.They had no legal rights

Chinese workers were unlikely to bring their families with them to the United States in the 1800's for all of the following are reasons EXCEPT:

What was the difference between the childbearing rates of black women in the border states and black women in the lower South?

Interviews with African-American women during the sharecropping era revealed that they

The Great Migration between 1910 and 1930 refers to African Americans moving from

What proportion of African Americans were free during the slavery era?

During the period of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War,former slave owners re-enslaved African Americans under the age of 21 through

Lacking the large,lucrative cotton plantations of the Deep South,slave owners in the border states developed an industry of using slaves for

Which form of family organization became dominant among African American sharecroppers after the Civil War?

African American sharecropping families were likely to be

Industrialization of the South and the growing demands for factory laborers

Structuration Theory divides social structure into four clusters.These include all EXCEPT

The controversial film,Salt of the Earth,was based on an actual event in the 1950's New Mexico during which

The ritual of "jumping the broom" refers to ...

How to Study Families in the Twenty-First Century

A History of Usfamilies With a Focus on European Americans

Families and the Economic System

Families and the Organization of Race Ethnicity,class,and Gender

Work and Family

Housework

Love and Sex

Marriage

Divorce and Remarriage

Violence in Families

Parents

Children

Families,family Policy,and the State

Filters