Exam 5: Origins and Causes of Ethnic Inequality

Slavery in the south changed drastically within two or three generations from its earliest introduction in the United States.Slaves became property and therefore had no legal rights and became a status from which one could not escape.This was due to:

Which of the following is a reason there were so few slave revolts in the United States compared with Latin America?

Even those who sought to help Indian people ended up exercising social control over them instead.

Anti-Mexican prejudice and discrimination following the annexation of Texas resulted from:

According to Noel (1968),three conditions must be present for intergroup contact to lead to ethnic stratification.They are:

One of the main differences between British,French and Spanish colonizers was that:

New Mexico's Hispanic population had a very different experience than Hispanics in other parts of the Southwest.Even today there is a large and powerful Hispanic elite in the state.This is due to:

The pattern of race relations in the United States today is best characterized as:

When people of different races carry different job titles and get paid different amounts but do similar kinds of work,they are most likely living under which system of race relations?

In a _____________ system of race relations it is frequently claimed that members of the subordinate group are childlike and helpless,so that dominant group members are doing them a great favor by providing them with shelter and work and teaching the ways of civilization.

The "allotment" policy initiated in the late 1880s with respect to American Indians failed because:

When one group migrates into an area where another group is present and conquers and subordinates that indigenous group it is called:

The paternalistic systems of Indian reservations and slave plantations differed in that:

The treatment of Chicanos in the U.S.was unique from that of blacks and Indians in that they were:

When one group expands its territory to take over control of an area formerly under the control of another group it's called:

The _________ system is associated with early stages of urbanization and industrialization.

According to Noel,what three situations are necessary for ethnic stratification to occur? Pick one ethnic or racial group history in the United States and relate it to these three situations.

The main difference between paternalistic and competitive race relations is:

Which of the following was a source of conflict between Anglos and Mexicans after the annexation of Texas to the United States?

From the beginning the relationship between Mexicans and Anglos in the United States has been one of domination and subordination.