Exam 4: Industrialization and Dominantminority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society

______ founded the Tuskegee Institute and advised African Americans in the South to take a nonconfrontational stance toward Jim Crow and focus on education and job skills.

African Americans worked to solve their own problems and meet their own needs, even as they pushed for greater equality within the larger society.

The period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War was a time of ______.

According to the text, "dominant-minority relations change as the subsistence technology changes." Explain and illustrate the impact of the Industrial Revolution on minority groups in the United States.

Whites created restrictive voting measures for African Americans under Jim Crow because ______.

Industrialization made the systems of paternalistic control that worked in agrarian economies irrelevant.

White ethnic groups in the North saw incoming Black migrants as a threat and thus ______.

During the Jim Crow era, Whites and Blacks were extremely segregated. While the free Black electorate threatened the political and economic dominance of elite White society, Whites still wanted--and needed--Black labor. Which theory best explains segregation under these conditions?

Following Reconstruction, the South was characterized by ______.

The shift from rigid to fluid competitive group relations is due to deindustrialization. This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Which of the following is true about the period of Reconstruction?

White students may assume that a minority student was accepted to a university due to ______ and not the student's own abilities.

After Reconstruction, sharecropping replaced slavery as the main way for the South to support an agrarian economy.

Racial discrimination in real estate has been illegal since the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Wars, conflicts, and other disputes in which the United States has been involved have had consequences for American minority groups.

What changes sparked the emergence of Black protest movements and organizations? What perspectives and methods were dominant in this early area? Which dimensions of minority group status were early leaders trying to address?

Which would you expect to find in a rigid competitive system of group relations?

Institutional discrimination is tied to unequal opportunity due to discrimination, personal prejudice, and group competition.

Following the end of slavery in the South, Black women most often worked ______.

In paternalistic systems, the dominant group seeks to preserve its advantage by handicapping the minority group's ability to compete effectively.