Question 1

The end of slavery and the development of sharecropping

Accepted Answer

A) had little effect on the family organization of African Americans. 
B) created a shift in power between African American women and men that benefited women. 
C) created a shift in power between African American women and men that benefited men. 
D) changed the African American family organization to an extended family similar to what their ancestors had practiced in West Africa. 
A) had little effect on the family organization of African Americans. 
B) created a shift in power between African American women and men that benefited women. 
C) created a shift in power between African American women and men that benefited men. 
D) changed the African American family organization to an extended family similar to what their ancestors had practiced in West Africa.

Question 2

In comparing the Euro-American (white)middle-class women and the African-American slave women in the nineteenth century,Aulette concludes that the assignment of family work including cooking,child care,cleaning,etc

Accepted Answer

A) diminished the internal community power and leadership of both the Euro-American and African-American women. 
B) enhanced the internal community power and leadership of the Euro-American women but diminished it for the African-American women. 
C) enhanced the internal community power and leadership of the African-American women but diminished it for the Euro-American women. 
D) enhanced the internal community power and leadership of both the Euro-American and African-American women. 
A) diminished the internal community power and leadership of both the Euro-American and African-American women. 
B) enhanced the internal community power and leadership of the Euro-American women but diminished it for the African-American women. 
C) enhanced the internal community power and leadership of the African-American women but diminished it for the Euro-American women. 
D) enhanced the internal community power and leadership of both the Euro-American and African-American women.

Question 3

Anthony Giddens (cited by Aulette)developed Structuration Theory,including the term ____________,to describe the mechanism by which people act on their surroundings (microlevel),causing a change to occur in the social structure (macrolevel).

Accepted Answer

A) Symbolic Orders 
B) Marxism 
C) Interactionism 
D) Agency 
A) Symbolic Orders 
B) Marxism 
C) Interactionism 
D) Agency

Question 4

Prior to the Civil War what proportion of African Americans were slaves?

Accepted Answer

A) 100% 
B) 90% 
C) 60% 
D) 40% 
A) 100% 
B) 90% 
C) 60% 
D) 40%

Question 5

The ancestors of many African Americans came from West African societies.All of the following describe the families in these societies EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A) Nuclear families who predominately live in separate households. 
B) The concept of family includes many people who may not live in the same household. 
C) Extended kin are thought of and treated as family instead of limiting family to nuclear families. 
D) Includes as family many people who may not be related by blood but who may be incorporated into a family through informal adoption and foster care. 
A) Nuclear families who predominately live in separate households. 
B) The concept of family includes many people who may not live in the same household. 
C) Extended kin are thought of and treated as family instead of limiting family to nuclear families. 
D) Includes as family many people who may not be related by blood but who may be incorporated into a family through informal adoption and foster care.

Question 6

Jim Crow laws refer to

Accepted Answer

A) the legally required segregation of blacks and whites in the South. 
B) legal requirements once forcing Native Americans to live on reservations. 
C) the few legal rights given to slaves. 
D) the popular label given the Civil Rights Act of 1963. 
A) the legally required segregation of blacks and whites in the South. 
B) legal requirements once forcing Native Americans to live on reservations. 
C) the few legal rights given to slaves. 
D) the popular label given the Civil Rights Act of 1963.

Question 7

Which of the following groups constitutes the largest non-white racial ethnic group in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A) African Americans 
B) Hispanic Americans 
C) Asian Americans 
D) Native Americans 
A) African Americans 
B) Hispanic Americans 
C) Asian Americans 
D) Native Americans

Question 8

Around 1880 the U.S.Government developed a policy "to obliterate the cultural heritage of Native Americans and to replace it with the values of Anglo-American society." The key strategy to accomplish this was

Accepted Answer

A) extermination through massacres,starvation and deliberate infections of disease. 
B) to remove children from their tribal homes and families and place them in far-way boarding schools so that they did not see their families for several years. 
C) government-supported missions on every reservation,required religious conversion to Christianity,and prohibitions against speaking native languages and engaging in cultural practices,rituals or traditions. 
D) none of the above -- the federal government officials predicted that the Native Americans would voluntarily give up their native culture for the superior Anglo culture. 
A) extermination through massacres,starvation and deliberate infections of disease. 
B) to remove children from their tribal homes and families and place them in far-way boarding schools so that they did not see their families for several years. 
C) government-supported missions on every reservation,required religious conversion to Christianity,and prohibitions against speaking native languages and engaging in cultural practices,rituals or traditions. 
D) none of the above -- the federal government officials predicted that the Native Americans would voluntarily give up their native culture for the superior Anglo culture.

The end of slavery and the development of sharecropping

In comparing the Euro-American (white)middle-class women and the African-American slave women in the nineteenth century,Aulette concludes that the assignment of family work including cooking,child care,cleaning,etc

Anthony Giddens (cited by Aulette)developed Structuration Theory,including the term ____________,to describe the mechanism by which people act on their surroundings (microlevel),causing a change to occur in the social structure (macrolevel).

Prior to the Civil War what proportion of African Americans were slaves?

The ancestors of many African Americans came from West African societies.All of the following describe the families in these societies EXCEPT:

Jim Crow laws refer to

Which of the following groups constitutes the largest non-white racial ethnic group in the United States?

Around 1880 the U.S.Government developed a policy "to obliterate the cultural heritage of Native Americans and to replace it with the values of Anglo-American society." The key strategy to accomplish this was

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Exam 3: A History of Usfamilies With a Focus on African Americans

The end of slavery and the development of sharecropping

In comparing the Euro-American (white)middle-class women and the African-American slave women in the nineteenth century,Aulette concludes that the assignment of family work including cooking,child care,cleaning,etc

Anthony Giddens (cited by Aulette)developed Structuration Theory,including the term ____________,to describe the mechanism by which people act on their surroundings (microlevel),causing a change to occur in the social structure (macrolevel).

Prior to the Civil War what proportion of African Americans were slaves?

The ancestors of many African Americans came from West African societies.All of the following describe the families in these societies EXCEPT:

Jim Crow laws refer to

Which of the following groups constitutes the largest non-white racial ethnic group in the United States?

Around 1880 the U.S.Government developed a policy "to obliterate the cultural heritage of Native Americans and to replace it with the values of Anglo-American society." The key strategy to accomplish this was

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