Deck 8: Crowd Violence

Question 1

The ______ of 1967 began with the arrest of an African American taxicab driver.

A) Miami riot
B) Detroit riot
C) Newark riot
D) Tampa riot

Answer 1

C

Question 2

______ describes groups whose goal is to keep some population group in their place,usually within the lower levels of class structure.

A) aggressive group-control vigilantism
B) social group-control vigilantism
C) regime-control vigilantism
D) crime-control vigilantism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

During the L.A.riots,which of the following businesses were usually spared from arson?

A) African American owned
B) White owned
C) Korean owned
D) liquor stores

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The civil unrest provoked by the shooting forced our nation to confront head on the issue of race and ______.

A) policing
B) education
C) employment
D) living conditions

Question 5

It is a mistake to see lynchings as spontaneous eruptions of ______,although they were often portrayed as such-especially by many Southern newspapers.Instead,we must recognize that lynching often served some very real social,political,and economic goals.

A) hand selected individuals
B) communal violence
C) controlled violence
D) none of the above

Question 6

Some may be tempted to argue that lynchings were simply a form of ______ justice-that lynch mobs were simply making sure that justice was served in cases where a crime had been committed.

A) warranted
B) popular
C) legal
D) act of of civil obedience

Question 7

The 2015 rioting in Baltimore,Maryland was the result of the death of an African American who died while in ______.

A) a nightclub
B) the battle of Gettysburg
C) the draft
D) police custody

Question 8

During slavery,lynchings were not used against the slaves because ______.

A) Lynchings hadn't been invented yet.
B) Slavery was legal and had the protection of the law.
C) The slaves would rebel.
D) Police punished lynchers.

Question 9

On April 9,1865,General ______ surrendered to Ulysses S.Grant at Appomattox courthouse and,for all intents and purposes,ended the American Civil War.

A) Robert E. Lee
B) George Washington
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Frederick Douglas

Question 10

The KKK was founded in ______,with its main purpose being to fight Reconstruction efforts.

A) 1850
B) 1986
C) 1776
D) 1866

Question 11

______ is the type of vigilantism most often associated with collective violence-targeted as it is with the elimination of crime.

A) innate control vigilantism
B) regime-control vigilantism
C) social group-control vigilantism
D) crime-control vigilantism

Question 12

Which is the most common type of riot in this country?

A) race
B) prison
C) sports
D) political

Question 13

Mob violence has been a relatively ______ occurrence within most societies throughout history.

A) objective
B) subjective
C) common
D) conforming

Question 14

Many riots throughout history have mostly been responses to ______.

A) current social conditions
B) prison release
C) injustice and oppression
D) conformity

Question 15

The 1980 Liberty City riot in ______ was started by the police killing of an unarmed African American who ran a red light.

A) Florida
B) Alabama
C) Mississippi
D) Texas

Question 16

While the vast majority of lynching victims were African Americans,other victims were those from the North who came down South to assist the Black population during ______ and White Southerners who sympathized with Reconstruction and efforts to integrate Blacks into Southern society.

A) civil rights era
B) civil war
C) Reconstruction
D) 1700s

Question 17

______,refers to groups that engage in violence in an effort to control the government if it strays from an acceptable course of action and policy.

A) innate control vigilantism
B) crime-control vigilantism
C) social group-control vigilantism
D) regime-control vigilantism

Question 18

Congress attempted to hamper "Black Codes" by passing the Civil Rights Act of ______ that gave Blacks citizenship and full rights,even overcoming a presidential veto to do so.

A) 1850
B) 1996
C) 1776
D) none of the above

Question 19

We can see lynching as operating on a number of different levels.One of the primary purposes was to strike fear into the hearts of Blacks in the ______ period as they were attempting to integrate into White society and assert their economic and political independence.

A) post-civil rights era
B) post freedom movement
C) post-civil wat
D) post-Reconstruction

Question 20

______ is defined as an extralegal execution by a mob.

A) economic violence
B) racial violence
C) a firing squad
D) lynching

Question 21

Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.

Question 22

Mob violence-as exemplified by lynchings,vigilantes,and riots-has a short history in this country.

Question 23

All vigilante groups are the same.

Question 24

Discuss the reasoning for race riots increasing across the United States over the last few years.

Question 25

In contemporary America,the Guardian Angels,a group founded in 1979 in the Bronx,is still active in a number of communities.Identified by their red berets,its members patrol the subways,streets,and neighborhoods in order to prevent crime and have sometimes been labeled vigilantes by police.

Question 26

Vigilantes believe that the government does a good job of protecting traditional rights.

Question 27

Sex offender registries,which all states have available in some form,make convicted sex offenders particularly easy targets for individuals bent on delivering their own brand of justice.

Question 28

Sid Heal suggested that there are eight specific psychological factors that serve to lower or remove our prohibitions against violent behavior and thus facilitate individual participation in mob violence.Provide a brief description of three of the eight.

Question 29

African Americans were the only victims of lynch mobs in the United States.

Question 30

Vigilantism can be defined as an organized internal legal movement in which the participants take the law into their own hands.

Question 31

Each type of vigilante group is a liberal organization in the sense that it doesn't try to subvert law and order; rather all types of vigilante groups try to enforce it,though each has a different goal in mind as it engages in violence.