RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION

Chapter 8 Quiz 

(1) For decades, the consensus among professional historians has been that, if assigned to any one single cause, the Civil War was caused by…

A states’ rights

B territorial expansion

C slavery

D immigration

(2) By 1860, cotton production made ____ the single most valuable financial asset in the United States—greater in dollar value than all of America’s banks, railroads, and manufacturing combined.

A textiles

B agriculture

C the cotton gin

D slaves

(3) Reconstruction (______) featured the nation’s first attempts to incorporate African Americans as a group into the federal- and state-level political communities on an equal basis with whites.

A 1830-60

B 1861-65

C 1865-77

D 1877-1900

(4) _____ citizenship refers to one’s legal status as a citizen of the United States, whereas  citizenship is one’s additional legal status as citizen of a particular state (e.g., Ohio, Alabama, California).

A State; federal

B Territorial; state

C Territorial; federal

D Federal; state

(5) Which of the following is NOT an example of Reconstruction-era federal Civil Rights legislation by Congress?

A Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

B Freedman’s Bureau (1865)

C Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

D U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876)

(6) Which of the following contributed to ending Reconstruction’s racially egalitarian policies, rather than promoting them?

A Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

B The Enforcement Acts (1870-71)

C Civil Rights Act (1875)

D Civil Rights Cases (1883)

(7) _______: a form of unofficial slavery in which creditors coerce or entrap a social group in debt for generations. E.g., sharecropping in the post-Civil War South.

A convict leasing

B white terrorism

C debt slavery

D apartheid

(8) _____ is a legal phrase meaning “by law, officially, in theory.” By contrast, _____ is a legal phrase meaning “in fact, in practice.”

A DeNiro; de novo

B De jure; de facto

C De facto; de jure

D De novo; DeNiro

(9) _______: racial segregation, either de jure or de facto.

A convict leasing

B apartheid

C debt slavery

D white terrorism

(10) Federal action supporting the modern Civil Rights movement extended from _____ to ____.

A 1877-1954

B 1919-1944

C 1944-1972

D 1954-1965