Question 1

Which would you expect to find in a rigid competitive system of group relations?

Accepted Answer

A)   minority groups competing with dominant groups for jobs and other valued commodities
B)   decreased residential segregation
C)   handicapping of the majority group by the minority in order to preserve their advantage
D)   decreased hostility as competition increases
E)   dominant groups seeking to improve the minority group's job benefitsF) All of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 2

Wars, conflicts, and other disputes in which the United States has been involved have had consequences for American minority groups.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Whites created restrictive voting measures for African Americans under Jim Crow because ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   they were attempting to curtail voter fraud
B)   Black Americans had yet to obtain the right to vote
C)   they were hoping to create a more informed electorate
D)   Black people did not understand how to participate in the system
E)   they were threatened by Black political power during ReconstructionF) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 4

The period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War was a time of ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   opportunity for Black southerners
B)   bitter conflict and struggle between Blacks and European immigrants in the South
C)   great repression and racism in the South
D)   rapid movement of Black southerners to the urban North
E)   opportunity for White southernersF) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 5

What changes sparked the emergence of Black protest movements and organizations? What perspectives and methods were dominant in this early area? Which dimensions of minority group status were early leaders trying to address?

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Question 6

After Reconstruction, sharecropping replaced slavery as the main way for the South to support an agrarian economy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Institutional discrimination is tied to unequal opportunity due to discrimination, personal prejudice, and group competition.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following is true about the period of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

A)   African Americans in the South could not vote or hold political office.
B)   Black Southerners did not take advantage of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
C)   African Americans in the South opened many small businesses and schools, could vote, and held political office.
D)   African Americans in the South could not purchase land or houses or start businesses.
E)   The Freedman's Bureau was used to halt racial freedom in the defeated Confederacy.F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 9

According to the text, "dominant-minority relations change as the subsistence technology changes." Explain and illustrate the impact of the Industrial Revolution on minority groups in the United States.

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Question 10

During the Jim Crow era, Whites and Blacks were extremely segregated. While the free Black electorate threatened the political and economic dominance of elite White society, Whites still wanted--and needed--Black labor. Which theory best explains segregation under these conditions?

Accepted Answer

A)   the Blauner hypothesis
B)   the Noel hypothesis
C)   the culture of poverty theory
D)   intersectionality theory
E)   Marxist theoryF) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 11

White ethnic groups in the North saw incoming Black migrants as a threat and thus ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   excluded them from labor unions and political systems
B)   established a new Jim Crow
C)   attempted to decrease racial tension through residential integration
D)   established enclave economies
E)   borrowed paternalistic resistance methods from the SouthF) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

Racial discrimination in real estate has been illegal since the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In paternalistic systems, the dominant group seeks to preserve its advantage by handicapping the minority group's ability to compete effectively.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

African Americans worked to solve their own problems and meet their own needs, even as they pushed for greater equality within the larger society.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Following Reconstruction, the South was characterized by ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   African Americans becoming the dominant class
B)   a rigid caste system due to the Jim Crow laws
C)   an end to the plantation system and urbanization
D)   an end to the White class system
E)   increasing opportunity for African AmericansF) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 16

The shift from rigid to fluid competitive group relations is due to deindustrialization. This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Accepted Answer

A)   Weber
B)   Noel
C)   Lenski
D)   Blauner
E)   MarxF) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 17

______ founded the Tuskegee Institute and advised African Americans in the South to take a nonconfrontational stance toward Jim Crow and focus on education and job skills.

Accepted Answer

A)   George Washington Carver
B)   Booker T. Washington
C)   W. E. B. Du Bois
D)   Marcus Garvey
E)   Stanley LiebersonF) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 18

Following the end of slavery in the South, Black women most often worked ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   within the home
B)   under their own sharecropping contracts
C)   doing agricultural labor
D)   more than Black men or White women
E)   less than Black menF) All of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 19

White students may assume that a minority student was accepted to a university due to ______ and not the student's own abilities.

Accepted Answer

A)   reparations
B)   racism
C)   affirmative action
D)   discrimination
E)   favoritismF) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

Industrialization made the systems of paternalistic control that worked in agrarian economies irrelevant.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 4: Industrialization and Dominantminority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Postindustrial Society

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Wars, conflicts, and other disputes in which the United States has been involved have had consequences for American minority groups.

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Whites created restrictive voting measures for African Americans under Jim Crow because ______.

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Institutional discrimination is tied to unequal opportunity due to discrimination, personal prejudice, and group competition.

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