Exam 2: The Invention of Race

In the fifteenth century,Spain began to create an "imagined community" by binding people together inside artificially created borders.What else might constitute an "imagined community"?

What was the Indian Allotment Act? Explain the intentions behind the act,as well as its consequences.

In what year was Hawaii's sovereignty finally dissolved when the American military overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy and annexed the islands?

How did plantation owners strive to convince poor whites to overlook how they were exploited by the slave economy?

Which statement best describes the racial order of the Aztec empire following Spanish colonization?

In 1519,which city had the largest population?

What gave black men-but not other nonwhites or women-the right to vote?

Which two countries are most responsible for the racial classification system we know today?

The textbook authors point out that asking "Why did Africans sell fellow Africans into slavery?" is an inaccurate question.Why?

What was the meaning of the "Indian Problem"?

Thousands of blacks were lynched during Reconstruction and throughout the mid-twentieth century.These acts of violence can be described as ________________.

Before the _________ century,race as we know it today did not exist.

Author Michelle Alexander recently coined the term "the new Jim Crow" to discuss the rapid rise of mass incarceration among the black population in the United States.What might Jim Crow and mass incarceration have in common?