Question 1

What are two reasons other than skin color that Africans were considered "the perfect slaves"?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What are two reasons other than skin...

Question 2

What did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common?

Accepted Answer

A) They were rare examples of black slave owners. 
B) They were former slaves turned abolitionists. 
C) They worked closely with feminists to highlight the gendered aspects of race. 
D) They were leaders of armed slave rebellions.

Question 3

Briefly explain one of the four ways by which Eastern European immigrants came to be categorized as white.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Briefly explain one of the four ways...

Question 4

How did the United States acquire the land that today is New Mexico,California,Utah,Nevada,parts of Arizona,and disputed areas of Texas?

Accepted Answer

A) the Monroe Doctrine 
B) Manifest Destiny 
C) the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 
D) the Thirteenth Amendment

Question 5

According to the figure below,"The African Slave Trade 1501-1867," the greatest number of African slaves were taken where?

Accepted Answer

A) the United States 
B) Cuba 
C) Jamaica 
D) Brazil

Question 6

Between 1615 and 1620,approximately what percentage of the indigenous population of Massachusetts died from the plague?

Accepted Answer

A) 25 percent 
B) 55 percent 
C) 75 percent 
D) 90 percent

Question 7

Which event effectively ended the 350-year-old Indian Wars?

Accepted Answer

A) the Wounded Knee Massacre 
B) the Indian Allotment Act 
C) the Indian Reservation Act 
D) the Trail of Tears

Question 8

Compare the English and Spanish colonization of the Americas.How did racial formation vary in each instance?

Accepted Answer

The answer of Compare the English and Spanish colonization of...

Question 9

From the end of the nineteenth century to the 1970s,thousands of Native Americans and African Americans,as well as people deemed mentally retarded or criminal,were sterilized against their will.This phenomenon was an example of what?

Accepted Answer

A) eugenics 
B) Jim Crow laws 
C) assimilation 
D) polarization

Question 10

Which of the following was a catalyst for Europe's emerging racial worldview?

Accepted Answer

A) trade routes 
B) evolving attitudes about gender roles 
C) the continued influence of political monarchies 
D) agricultural advancements such as the invention of the cotton gin

Question 11

Johann Blumenbach published a typology of humanity that divided humans into five groups that correspond to different geographical areas-Caucasians,Mongolians,Ethiopians,Americans,and Malays.Why was his research fundamentally flawed?

Accepted Answer

A) He saw beauty as relative across racial groups. 
B) He understood racial groups as categories that change over time. 
C) He did not gather data to support his research. 
D) He suggested that equality was a natural ordering of the world.

Question 12

Boarding schools that attempted to strip Native Americans of their culture and tradition by requiring them to speak English can be considered an example of what type of infliction brought by colonialism?

Accepted Answer

A) an infliction of their bodies 
B) an infliction of their spirits 
C) an infliction of their land 
D) an infliction of their laws

Question 13

What is one reason Native Americans weren't permanently enslaved alongside blacks?

Accepted Answer

A) They were relied on as guides and trappers in the fur trade. 
B) They were unfamiliar with the land and therefore would not make good agricultural laborers. 
C) Their skin was light enough that they could blend in with the white population. 
D) Their numbers were increasing rapidly.

Question 14

President Barack Obama is often referred to as the nation's first black president,not as the nation's first biracial president.What does this tell us about racial categories in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A) Racial categories have become meaningless as the United States has become more diverse. 
B) Racial categories have become "colorblind." 
C) There are fewer multiracial people of African ancestry. 
D) In the eyes of many,blackness remains a totalizing racial category.

Question 15

The H-2A guest worker program brings tens of thousands of people to the United States to work in manual labor sectors.But because these workers are bound to the companies that request them,some critics have called this practice an example of modern-day _________.

Accepted Answer

A) indentured servitude 
B) homesteading 
C) black codes 
D) immigration acts

Question 16

What were two ways in which slaves rebelled against their masters?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What were two ways in which slaves...

Question 17

For the Native Americans,the process of white colonialism brought inflictions on their bodies,their spirits,and their land.What is one example given in the textbook of how Native Americans experienced violence "on their spirits"?

Accepted Answer

A) cultural reeducation 
B) disease 
C) eradication of tribal property 
D) bullet wounds

Question 18

Who were the first group to colonize the Americas?

Accepted Answer

A) Spaniards 
B) British 
C) French 
D) Dutch

Question 19

How many Cherokees died along the Trail of Tears,the 1,200-mile-long forced journey from Georgia,Tennessee,North Carolina,and Alabama to Oklahoma and Arkansas?

Accepted Answer

A) 50 
B) 700 
C) 2,000 
D) 4,000

Question 20

Two methods by which white Americans attempted to solve the "Indian Problem" and acquire tribal land were:

Accepted Answer

A) homogenization and differentiation 
B) assimilation and removal 
C) legal and illegal 
D) subtle and overt

Exam 2: The Invention of Race