Exam 5: Nativism and Racism

These immigrants were perceived as being threats of revolutionaries.

Most foreigners proved their loyalties during the Civil War.

The authors demonstrate how researchers used science to support their racist ideas.

Prejudice must be present to keep the current institutional discrimination system intact.

There is massive evidence that visible,phenotypic races are:

Native workers and business owners considered Chinese laborers to be:

The tendency to rate all out-group members as lower than in-group members is called:

Prejudice and discrimination ________ go together.

The Immigration Act of 1924 modified the Immigration Act of 1917 in all of the following ways except:

Public statements by majority group members have become more ________ to minority groups over time in the United States.

Authoritarianism is highly related to prejudice.

The Civil War brought an end to the strife between the natives and first stream immigrants because:

The relationship between prejudice and discrimination is very simple and obvious.

Make a vocabulary list of the following words: racism,prejudice,stereotypes,and discrimination.Give examples of each of these from Chapter 5.

Both group conflict theories and institutional discrimination theories emphasize that discrimination has important sources other than:

The authors discuss the question,"Do some Americans still ________ today for being members of minorities?"

In 1882 Congress passed this xenophobic act.

Assuming that our actions are always caused by our attitudes is an example of the:

No Chinese helped to build U.S.railroads because of the laws.

The authors argue that the door to America was always fully open.