Exam 3: Variations in American Family Life

A group of people who share common phenotypical characteristics is known as a(n)

By the beginning of the twentieth century, American families lost many of their traditional functions.

Slave culture discouraged casual sex and placed a high value on marital stability.

Traditional gender and marital roles mostly prevailed during the 1950s.

Immigrants created great economic wealth for America.

Native American families tended to share all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

White ethnicity is strongest in which part of the United States?

Slave children in the U.S.were often forced into hard physical labor as young as age 5 or 6.

During the nineteenth century, protecting children from the evils of the world became a major part of childrearing.

The first slaves were brought to what today is the United States in

White ethnicity is generally strongest in the

An ethnic identity that is used only when the individual chooses is known as a(n)

Increasingly large numbers of Native Americans are marrying non-Indians.

Immigrants were so eager to leave their homeland that they seldom knew where they were going to settle in America.

Discuss four major differences between family life in colonial America and post-industrial America.

Until the last 35 years, most research about American marriages and families has been conducted on

Write an essay in which you describe ways in which research on marriage and the family has been biased in favor of the white middle class.

All of the following are characteristics of contemporary marriages and families EXCEPT

After industrialization,

Most Arabs living in the U.S.have very little education.