Exam 13: Stratification, Minorities, and Discrimination

From 1960 to 2015, the percentage of blacks completing four years of college rose from 3 percent to about 41.5 percent.

What factors contribute to the slow economic and social progress of Mexican Americans?

Jim Crow laws were part of the:

Segregation that occurs because of social and cultural, not legal, reasons is called:

Women whose primary aim was to win the right to vote were called:

Actions, behavior, or treatment based on prejudice are called:

A group of people who identify with each other on the basis of common ancestry and cultural heritage is called a (n):

Since 1954, no major civil rights laws have been passed in the U.S.

In 1950, the U.S. government finally apologized to the surviving Japanese Americans who had been interned.

Social scientists argue that race is:

In 2000, blacks earned a median income that was less than 60 percent of that earned by whites.

In the early 1990s, when immigration into the United States reached its peak, more than 1 million persons were arriving every year.