RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION
Chapter 6 Quiz
(1) Two major reasons why people immigrate are ______ (violence or persecution, natural disasters such as famine or disease), and ______ (social structural constraints on life chances).
A adventure; unlimited opportunity
B insecurity; adventure
C insecurity; limited opportunity
D limited opportunity; adventure
(2) _____: organized political opposition to immigration. Arises from fears of the native-born that immigrants are worsening the nation or local community
A melting pot
B nativism
C manifest destiny
D proletariat
(3) George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Franklin D. Roosevelt: the racialized cultural identity of all these people is…
A White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
B White Celtic Catholic
C White Mexican Catholic
D White American Catholic
(4) The new Americans (1830-1860) came almost entirely from northwestern Europe, principally…
A Ireland, Mexico, England
B Ireland, Germany, Mexico
C France, Germany, England
D Ireland, Germany, England
(5) By 1850, native-born Americans with widely divergent outlooks and major disagreements on a range of issues were ready to blame their various grievances on foreign influences in American life. This nativist base supported the anti-immigrant “American Party” (aka _______).
A “Democratic Party”
B “Whig Party”
C “Free Soil Party”
D “Know Nothing Party”
(6) After the 1846-48 Mexican War and 1853 Gadsden Purchase, the U.S. possessed the ______—a vast western region with centuries of European (Spanish) colonization since the 1500s.
A Mexican Cession
B Oregon Country
C Louisiana Purchase
D Texas Republic
(7) By 1880, the new European immigrant-sending regions in _______ Europe were increasingly unfamiliar to native Americans and older immigrants.
A southern and western
B northern and eastern
C southern and eastern
D northern and western
(8) Chinese Exclusion Act: ____ federal law in which Congress suspended the immigration and naturalization of Chinese, mostly manual laborers. An example of anti-Asian immigration policies (versions of white nationalism) in effect until 1965.
A 1882
B 1902
C 1922
D 1942
(9) World War II ______ internment camps: The U.S. Army’s forcible removal from their homes and prolonged detention of virtually all Americans of this ancestry, from 1942 to 1946.
A Korean American
B Vietnamese American
C Chinese American
D Japanese American
(10) Whereas white ethnics (1930-1965) increasingly crossed the color line, achieving political power and urban and suburban integration in housing and schools, _____ and _____ (like African Americans) endured continuing political exclusion and racial segregation.
A Italians; Jews
B Jews; East Asians
C Mexicans; East Asians
D Mexicans; Jews
