Question 1

What were two (2) main issues that needed to be addressed after the ratification of the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

A)   citizenship and birth rights
B)   suffrage and justice
C)   justice and equality
D)   suffrage and citizenship D

Question 2

Identify two (2) methods used to disenfranchise racial/ethnic minority voters and indicate how they operated.

Accepted Answer

a) There may be a variety of answers here, including, but not limited to: violence, direct racial prohibitions (especially in terms of denial of naturalization), voting fraud, structural discrimination (appointive office, gerrymandering, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests).
Responses will vary, but should indicate the mechanisms at play; for example: appointive office: removes the ability of electorates to choose officials; gerrymandering: packing or cracking minority communities in order to dilute voting power; literacy tests: applied differentially to nonwhites to ensure disenfranchisement.

Question 3

In what ways have we seen the development and continuation of the salience of race in the U.S. political context?

Accepted Answer

a) Racial and ethnic discrimination has persisted for all racial/ethnic minority groups. Citizenship and voting rights have been denied, fought for, and questioned throughout the history of the nation.

Question 4

Why are the concepts of citizenship and suffrage essential in the American political context? Examine the struggles to obtain these rights by the four main racial/ethnic groups covered within the text. Indicate where you find similarities and differences, as well as why these similarities and differences exist.

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

The U.S. Constitution, as originally written, left decisions regarding citizenship to ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   slave owners
B)   local governing councils
C)   the U.S. Congress
D)   the states

Question 6

Which of the following is not an aspect of how ethnicity is defined?

Accepted Answer

A)   Learned characteristics.
B)   Familial national origin.
C)   Skin tone and facial features.
D)   All of the answers are essential to the definition.

Question 7

In which case did the Supreme Court refuse to extend the birthright citizenship granted in the Fourteenth Amendment to American Indians?

Accepted Answer

A)   Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) 
B)   Elk v. Wilkins (1884) 
C)   Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 
D)   Brown v. Board (1954)

Question 8

How many racial categories appeared on the 2010 U.S. Census?

Accepted Answer

A)   2
B)   4
C)   6
D)   8

Question 9

The Naturalization Act of 1790 allowed _________ the ability to be granted citizenship.

Accepted Answer

A)   "free white aliens"
B)   "free black aliens"
C)   "all Christians"
D)   "all who enter the nation"

Question 10

Which Supreme Court decision indicated that blacks could not be citizens, given the beliefs and intentions of the founders?

Accepted Answer

A)   Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) 
B)   Elk v. Wilkins (1884) 
C)   Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 
D)   Brown v. Board (1954)

Question 11

Virginia was instituting slavery on a broad scale as early as:

Accepted Answer

A)   1619
B)   1661
C)   1774
D)   1808

Question 12

The political and economic theory that states that the individual possess a sphere of rights that should be free from government interference is known as

Accepted Answer

A)   classical liberalism
B)   classical republicanism
C)   inegalitarianism
D)   egalitarianism

Question 13

Why are the terms Indian peoples, American Indian peoples, and indigenous peoples used in social and political science contexts, as compared to the term Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

A)   These groups are not actually native to the land.
B)   Political correctness causes society to change group names frequently.
C)   Knowledge about where these groups are from have changed over time.
D)   Native American was a term used by anti-immigrant, white supremacist nativist movements.

Question 14

Race and ethnicity are

Accepted Answer

A)   biological constructs
B)   social constructs
C)   nonexistent
D)   self-imposed constructs

Question 15

Antimiscegenation laws are policies that

Accepted Answer

A)   prohibit interracial sexual relationships and marriage.
B)   create separate public facilities for various racial groups.
C)   integrate public facilities to prohibit racial segregation.
D)   incentivize interracial sexual relationships and marriage.

Question 16

When were the racial restrictions of the Naturalization Act of 1790 rescinded?

Accepted Answer

A)   1830
B)   1892
C)   1952
D)   1983

Question 17

What were the purposes and effects of the three-fifths compromise?

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

The decision among constitutional delegates to allow slaves to be partially counted for the purposes for political representation is known as the _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   one-fifths compromise
B)   two-fifths compromise
C)   three-fifths compromise
D)   four-fifths compromise

Question 19

Which Supreme Court case established the separate but equal doctrine?

Accepted Answer

A)   Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) 
B)   Elk v. Wilkins (1884) 
C)   Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 
D)   Brown v. Board (1954)

Question 20

Explain how/why race and ethnicity are defined and examined as separate concepts. Provide two examples of how/why we can differentiate between these ideas.

Accepted Answer

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Exam 1: Americas Dilemmas

What were two (2) main issues that needed to be addressed after the ratification of the Constitution?

Identify two (2) methods used to disenfranchise racial/ethnic minority voters and indicate how they operated.

In what ways have we seen the development and continuation of the salience of race in the U.S. political context?

The U.S. Constitution, as originally written, left decisions regarding citizenship to ____________.

Which of the following is not an aspect of how ethnicity is defined?

In which case did the Supreme Court refuse to extend the birthright citizenship granted in the Fourteenth Amendment to American Indians?

How many racial categories appeared on the 2010 U.S. Census?

The Naturalization Act of 1790 allowed _________ the ability to be granted citizenship.

Which Supreme Court decision indicated that blacks could not be citizens, given the beliefs and intentions of the founders?

Virginia was instituting slavery on a broad scale as early as:

The political and economic theory that states that the individual possess a sphere of rights that should be free from government interference is known as

Why are the terms Indian peoples, American Indian peoples, and indigenous peoples used in social and political science contexts, as compared to the term Native Americans?

Race and ethnicity are

Antimiscegenation laws are policies that

When were the racial restrictions of the Naturalization Act of 1790 rescinded?

What were the purposes and effects of the three-fifths compromise?

The decision among constitutional delegates to allow slaves to be partially counted for the purposes for political representation is known as the _______________.

Which Supreme Court case established the separate but equal doctrine?

Explain how/why race and ethnicity are defined and examined as separate concepts. Provide two examples of how/why we can differentiate between these ideas.