Comparative Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

Culture does NOT include

Select one:

a. social stratification systems

b. language

c. values

d. religious beliefs

e. Customs

Only 60% of first generation Latinos speak only English.

Select one:

a. True

b. False

Park’s theory addresses issues of upward mobility for immigrant groups in terms of the resources and cultural characteristics of the members of the groups, especially their levels of education and familiarity with English.

Select one:

a. True

b. False

The slave trade from Africa to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of South America had been established in the _______.

Select one:

a. 1400s

b. 1500s

c. 1600s

d. 1700s

e. 1800s

There have been two mass immigration waves to the United States. The second occurred:

Select one:

a. before the Revolutionary War

b. at the end of the 19th century

c. during the Civil War

d. between the 1820s and the 1920s

e. after 1965

According to the film "Go'in to Chicago" the Boll Weevil was partly responsible for ________.

Select one:

a. the migration of Europeans to America

b. the collapse of Native populations.

c. the migration of 1.5 million Blacks from the South.

d. rising wages for Black share croppers in the South.

Malcolm X referred to Martin Luther king as a "modern day _____" in the clip shown in class.

Select one:

a. Ghandi

b. Jesus

c. Saint

d. Uncle Tom

The "Free Breakfast for Children" program was __________ by the FBI.

Select one:

a. was instituted to counter the Black Panther Party

b. denounced as BPP propaganda and targeted

c. a government educational program designed

d. funded

e. Supported

The first Black (African-American) labor union was formed in ________.

Select one:

a. 1967

b. 2010

c. 1864

d. 1925

A key figure who lead the organization of the porters union was _________.

Select one:

a. George Pullman

b. A. Philip Randolph

c. Martin Luther King

d. Malcolm X

A. Philip Randolf was an avowed _________.

Select one:

a. communist

b. democrat

c. republican

d. Socialist

One of the factors that facilitated the civil rights movement was _____________.

Select one:

a. Industrialization

b. Urbanization

c. Economic prosperity of Blacks

d. All the above

_______ number of US Army troops were deployed in Los Angeles during the Watts rebellion.

Select one:

a. 1,000

b. 5,000

c. 14,000

d. 54,560

The Watts riots of 1965 ushered in a more ______ era of the civil rights movement.

Select one:

a. pacifist

b. assimilation

c. militant

d. melting pot

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required that the same standards be used to register all citizens in federal, state, and local elections.

Select one:

True

False