Ch.1 The Origin Of The Idea Of Race Test Questions & Answers

Chapter 1: The Origin of the Idea of Race

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Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1) The journey for 12.5 million Africans who were kidnapped and sold into slavery was called

a. The Triangle Trade.

b. The Great Slave Trade.

c. The Middle Passage.

d. The Diasporic Journey.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2) Race is

a. a historical construct.

b. a social construct.

c. a legal construct.

d. a historical and social construct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3) Racism refers to:

a. the belief that races are populations whose mental differences are linked to significant cultural and social differences.

b. the practice of subordinating races believed to be inferior.

c. hating a person of a different skin color.

d. None of the above.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4) Since antiquity, enslaved people have existed in

a. Chinese Societies.

b. Middle Eastern Societies.

c. Spanish Societies.

d. Romanian Societies.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

5) The ______________set an important historical precedent for current understandings of race.

a. Egyptian invasion of Asia

b. Spanish invasion of the Caribbean

c. Greco-Persian Wars

d. conflicts between England and Ireland

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 06

6) Who was the African resident who accompanied Spaniards in their conquest of the Americas?

a. Juan Garrido

b. Juan Guerro

c. Juan Garcia

d. Juan Guerrera

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 07

7) English settlers’ perception of Native Americans as “savage” originated from:

a. their dehumanizing treatment of enslaved Africans.

b. their similar views of the Irish as savage, sexually immoral, and resistant to civilization.

c. their fear that Native Americans would kidnap White women.

d. their manner of dress.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 08

8) The form of slavery that developed in the North American colonies was unique in each of the following ways, EXCEPT:

a. slaves could only marry other slaves.

b. slaves were not allowed to learn how to read or write.

c. slavery was permanent.

d. slaves had no legal rights.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 09

9) What laws were passed to prevent White servants from working with enslaved Africans?

a. A law that required masters to fifty acres of land to White servants whose indenture time was completed.

b. A law allowing White servants to own property but not slaves.

c. A law prohibiting any Negro, mulatto, or Indian to raise his hand in opposition to any Christian (White) man.

d. All of the above.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 10

10) Passed in the 1600s, laws aimed at distinguishing the social status of European indentured servants from that of enslaved Africans were known as the:

a. Virginia common laws.

b. Jim Crow laws.

c. slave codes.

d. race codes.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 11

11) English colonists created a permanent slave class by passing a law that

a. outlawed interracial marriage.

b. mandated that only Africans could be slaves.

c. forbade masters from freeing their slaves.

d. banned indentured servitude.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 12

12) What was the name of Daniel Dowdy’s cousin who was sold to a man in New York?

a. Melissa

b. Eliza

c. Penny

d. Bess

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 13

13) Although slaves were emancipated in the 1800s, this period also marked the beginning of a new understanding of race known as:

a. scientific racism.

b. indentured servitude.

c. genetic discrimination.

d. eugenics.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 14

14) The _____________ of the 1800s built upon racial taxonomies by using scientific methods to demonstrate fundamental differences between humans.

a. anti-miscegenation studies

b. craniometry studies

c. anthropometric studies

d. intelligence testing

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 15

15) Who declared, “I am not nor ever have been in favor of the social and political equality of the White and Black Races?”

a. Thomas Jefferson

b. Alexander Hamilton

c. James Madison

d. Abraham Lincoln

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 16

16) Who contributed to the emergence and growth of scientific racism?

a. Samuel George Merton

b. Herbert Hoover

c. Joseph Ward

d. Edward Lewis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 17

17) When Latin American countries were engaged in nation-making, they referred to their identity as

a. Chicanos.

b. Aztecas.

c. Mestizaje.

d. Latinos.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 18

18) Latin American countries responded to European ideas of White superiority by:

a. creating anti-miscegenation laws.

b. banning Europeans from entering.

c. arguing that racial mixture was a mark of progress.

d. selling White slaves.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 19

19) The Indian Removal Act of 1830 displaced how many Native Americans?

a. 60,000

b. 70,000

c. 80,000

d. 90,000

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 20

20) Most African slaves brought to America from West Africa were

a. Yoruba.

b. Igbo.

c. Fulani.

d. All of the above.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1) Name three (3) ways that Enslaved Africans and their descendants built up America and its economy.

Page reference: Introduction

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2) Why were colonists unsuccessful in capturing and enslaving the native people of Virginia?

Page reference: Introduction

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3) What role does genetics play in explaining the physical differences between racial groups?

Page reference: Defining Race and Ethnicity

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4) What does colonialism mean?

Page reference: Defining Race and Ethnicity

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

5) What type of contact did Southern Europeans have with other peoples?

Page reference: Historical Precedents to the Idea of Race

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 06

6) What is the evidence that racism did not exist in ancient societies involved in slavery?

Page reference: Slavery Before the Idea of Race

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 07

7) What kinds of abuse were the Spaniards known for committing?

Page reference: European Encounters with Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 08

8) Where were some of the first places England sent colonists?

Page reference: Exploitation in the Thirteen English Colonies

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 09

9) What role did religion play in colonizing the Indigenous tribes?

Page reference: Takeover of Indigenous Lands

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 010

10) What kind of treatment did African slaves get before 1660?

Page reference: The Enslavement of Africans

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1) What is the difference between Race & Ethnicity? Please provide an example.

Page reference: Defining Race and Ethnicity

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2) What are the differences between slavery in ancient societies (i.e., Greek and Roman) and slavery of the New World?

Page reference: Slavery Before the Idea of Race

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3) What was the role of colonization in slavery?

Page reference: Slavery and Colonization

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4) What is the difference between indentured servitude and slavery?

Page reference: Indentured Servitude

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

5) What role did Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus play in classifying racial groups?

Page reference: European Taxonomies