RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION

Chapter 5 Quiz 

(1) Like modern slavery, the modern concept of race sprang from these first sustained trading encounters of _____ with Africa.

A England

B Spain

C Portugal

D the United States

(2) European plantation agriculture in the Americas would drag 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic by the latter 1800s. This hellish transport inside suffocating, stinking slave ships became known as the ______.

A Great Famine

B Middle Passage

C Destruction of the Indies

D Trail of Tears

(3) Africans taken to the Americas and Europe collectively formed the ______ (literally, “dispersal of seeds”).

A African Diaspora

B Destruction of the Indies

C Middle Passage

D Trail of Tears

(4) _______ were the main New World destinations of enslaved Africans. During slavery, ______ alone received eleven times as many as North America (4,143,600 vs. 378,000).

A The Caribbean, Brazil, Europe, and North America; Europe

B The Caribbean, Brazil, the Spanish mainland, and North America; the Caribbean

C The Caribbean, Brazil, the Spanish mainland, and North America; Peru

D The Caribbean, Brazil, the Spanish mainland, and North America; Europe

(5) This “white or black,” either-or racial system is called ______, with any bit of nonwhite ancestry theoretically sufficient to make you nonwhite.

A whiteness by decency

B mestizaje

C social whiteness

D the one-drop rule

(6) The Constitution’s ______ Clause: this proportion of slaves would be included in state population totals. The formula reflected delegates’ judgment that slaves were less efficient producers of wealth than free people, not that they were partly human and partly property.

A One-Fifth

B Two-Fifths

C Three-Fifths

D Four-Fifths

(7) The Constitution distinguished between “persons” and “citizens.” All persons inhabiting the United States comprised, in some vague sense, the people who were sovereign in a republic. But only citizens voted; only citizens fully possessed the rights enumerated in the Constitution’s first ten amendments (Bill of Rights). Which groups were persons, not citizens?

A Catholics and Protestants

B White men and black slaves

C White men and Indians

D White women and black slaves

(8) Which of the following U.S. presidents was not a slaveholder?

A Washington

B Lincoln

C Jefferson

D Jackson

(9) ________: a northern version of 1800s white nationalism, seeking to prevent economic competition with enslaved southern blacks (e.g., in agriculture) or free northern blacks (e.g., jobs). For example: “Keep Ohio white.”

A one-drop rule

B free labor ideology

C Three-Fifths Clause

D Monticello

(10) _______ : northern state laws denying that the Bill of Rights applied to African Americans. A version of 1800s white nationalism. Ohio passed its first of these laws in 1804.

A Free Laws

B White Laws

C Indian Laws

D Black Laws