Question 1

Blauner's hypothesis states that minority groups created by colonization will experience greater, more long-lasting disadvantages than minority groups created by immigration. Apply this framework to issues of modern-day racial inequality.

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Question 2

Indentured servants were members of a caste system and had no opportunities for mobility.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Compare and contrast the experiences of Native Hawaiians and Native Americans. What explains these similarities and differences?

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Question 4

______ are more the results of systems of racial and ethnic inequality than they are the causes.

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A)   Prejudice and racism
B)   Sexism and homophobia
C)   Mistrust and fear
D)   Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
E)   Competition and ethnocentrismF) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 5

How does Noel's third variable explain why Africans were enslaved instead of other groups?

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A)   Africans were well-organized social units with a vast knowledge of the countryside.
B)   Africans were already indentured servants and well trained.
C)   Africans did not negotiate better treatment.
D)   Africans had no nearby relatives, no geographical knowledge of the area, and no secure escape refuge.
E)   Africans had nearby relatives and had geographical knowledge of the area.F) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 6

The possession of true femininity and womanhood was limited to White women.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Land and labor are central concerns in an agricultural society.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

In colonial America, Native Americans were not enslaved. According to Noel's hypothesis, this was because ______.

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A)   the differential in power often favored Native Americans
B)   there was no competition between colonists and Native Americans
C)   the colonists had more power than Native Americans
D)   the colonists felt greater ethnocentrism toward Africans than Native Americans
E)   the colonists preferred White indentured servants, who were more available and reliableF) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 9

Most scholars agree that anti-Black prejudice ______.

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A)   was an important cause of American slavery
B)   was a result of American slavery
C)   existed in England before the start of the slave trade
D)   declined as slavery began to take shape in colonial times
E)   was based on the mutual ethnocentrism between colonists and AfricansF) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 10

Only the wealthy elite owned slaves.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Which of the following describes the labor performed by women during slavery?

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A)   Enslaved women most often worked in isolated conditions.
B)   Enslaved women were primarily assigned less hours than men.
C)   Enslaved women performed work similar to that of White women.
D)   Enslaved women performed work aligned with expectations of femininity.
E)   Enslaved women were assigned group-oriented tasks.F) None of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 12

Compare the origins of dominant and minority relations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Use Blauner and Noel's work in your analysis. In what ways do contact situations shape group relations for centuries to come?

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Question 13

Profits in the labor-intensive plantation system could be maximized if a large, disciplined, and ______ workforce was maintained by the landowners.

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A)   young
B)   White
C)   able-bodied
D)   cheap
E)   well-educatedF) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 14

The amount of power commanded by a group is a result of three factors: size, degree of organization, and amount of resources.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

American colonists came to see ______ as the most logical, cost-effective way to solve their labor shortage.

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A)   imported Africans
B)   Asian immigrants
C)   European immigrants
D)   indigenous Americans
E)   indigenous MexicansF) C) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 16

Slavery developed in the United States as a response to ______.

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A)   prejudice from European colonists
B)   the desire to remove Native Americans from their land
C)   a labor supply problem
D)   massive immigration of Africans to the Americas
E)   economic inequalityF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

Explain the factors that led to the development of slavery in America using the Noel and Blauner hypotheses. Why is the plantation system of production significant for understanding the dynamics of slavery?

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The development of slavery in America ca...

Question 18

The population of Native Americans in the continental United States decreased dramatically by 1890 because ______.

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A)   warfare and battles led to casualties
B)   of interracial marriage
C)   of coercive assimilation
D)   Native Americans died from a variety of infectious diseases
E)   Native Americans migrated westwardF) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 19

Explain Blauner's distinction between colonized and immigrant minority groups. Why is the initial contact period between minority and dominant groups so crucial? Relate Blauner's two types of minority groups to Gordon's theory of assimilation. Are immigrant or colonized minority groups more likely to follow Gordon's stages of assimilation in order? Why? Are immigrant or colonized minority groups more likely to encounter high levels of prejudice, discrimination, ideological racism, and institutional discrimination? Why?

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Question 20

Much of the southwest became U.S. territory in 1848 as a result of ______.

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A)   the revolt of Texas against Mexico
B)   the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
C)   the American Civil War
D)   the California Gold Rush
E)   the Dawes Allotment ActF) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

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