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

During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from rural areas in the South to new rural areas in the North.

Compare and contrast the experiences of European American immigrant women and African American women during the early phases of industrialization. What sectors of the job market did they enter? Why?

Due to the changes wrought by industrialization and the population movement to the North, African American men were forced to take primary responsibility for their homes and children.

Sharecropping is a form of de jure segregation.

Affirmative action policies were established to reduce the effects of future discrimination.

What social, economic, and political forces caused de jure segregation in the South? How were African Americans controlled under this system? What factors encouraged their migration to the North?

How did the Great Migration of Blacks to the North affect White immigrants?

Under de jure segregation, separation of African Americans and European Americans in virtually all aspects of social life was required by law.

Which of the following best exemplifies de jure segregation?

According to the chapter text, the Great Migration of Blacks to the North had which of the following effects on African Americans?

Excluded from the mainstream but freed from the limitations of slavery, African Americans constructed a separate subsociety and subculture.

The statement that African Americans voted against Southern segregation "with their feet" refers to dancing and the blues music that developed during this time period.

African Americans face exclusion from better jobs in the primary sector, which concentrates them in positions that offer little opportunity for upward mobility. This statement supports which theoretical perspective?

During the 19th century, an anti-elitist movement attempted to unite poor Whites and Blacks in the rural South against the traditional elite classes. This movement was called ______.

During the Great Migration, Black women often worked in domestic servant positions, replacing European immigrant women who move up in the job structure. This is similar to what phenomenon?

As de jure segregation formed and solidified in the South, ______.

Despite shifts to fluid competitive relations, African Americans will continue to remain at a disadvantage as they pursue opportunities and resources. This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

By 1910, Black labor in the United States was most characterized by ______.

Distinguish between paternalistic and rigid competitive group relations. Which is associated with agrarian subsistence technology? Which is associated with industrialization? Why?

During the Great Migration, Black women worked outside the home at higher rates than White women.