Deck 12: Contemporary Gender Inequality

Question 1

The small scale evolution in traits leads to the phenomenon we know as _____.

A) Demography
B) Race
C) Age
D) Health

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A(n) _____ group is a group that shares a common language and culture.

A) Ethnic
B) Homeopathic
C) Salient
D) Neutral

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which country did not experience Genocide during the 20^th century.

A) Canada
B) Germany
C) Bosnia
D) Rwanda

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which is the country that receives the most immigrants (as a proportion of its total population)

A) The USA
B) The UAE
C) New Zealand
D) New Caledonia

Question 5

In Kuwait and Qatar in the early 2000s, foreigners filled ____% of private sector jobs.

A) 10
B) 50
C) 70
D) 90

Question 6

In the middle east, which job is a foreigner unlikely to have?

A) Butcher
B) Driver
C) Government Official
D) Skilled worker in the private sector

Question 7

There was a huge controversy in France recently over which article of clothing?

A) Headscarves
B) "Chino" pants
C) Crew Socks
D) Earmuffs

Question 8

When the first European settlers came to America, the indigenous people they found were living in a(n) ______ society.

A) Agrarian
B) Horticultural
C) Industrial
D) Hunting/Gathering

Question 9

The Native Americans in North America had one commodity the earlier settlers wanted--_____.

A) Feathers
B) Literature
C) Gold
D) Furs

Question 10

Which European introduction did not harm Native Americans?

A) Guns
B) Diseases
C) Alcohol
D) They all harmed Native Americans

Question 11

Which was true of the relationship between Native Americans and the European settlers?

A) The Native Americans ruthlessly exploited the settlers
B) There was a great war in the late 18^th century ended by the Omaha Concord of 1744
C) The Europeans exploited the Native Americans
D) Both groups coexisted in perfect harmony

Question 12

The Trail of Tears involves which group?

A) The Jews
B) The Cherokee
C) The Huns
D) The Inca

Question 13

In the early 19^th century, how did the US government attempt to solve the problems with land and Native Americans?

A) The Indian Removal act
B) The "Indian Bill of Rights" act
C) Giving the Native Americans "first dibs" on whatever land they wanted
D) Complete eviction of the Native Americans from all North American soil

Question 14

When the Cherokee protested their eviction from Georgia, what followed?

A) They left voluntarily and happily
B) They appealed to the Supreme Court and won, yet they were forced to leave anyways
C) They appealed to the Supreme Court and lost and so were forced to leave
D) They decided to go to Liberia

Question 15

How did the first Africans arrive in the US?

A) As Indentured Servants
B) As Slaves
C) As Explorers
D) As Convicts

Question 16

Which was not a way white southerners tried to control their slaves?

A) A rigorous formal education for slaves
B) A strict ratio of Slaves to non-slaves
C) Limitations on the distance Slaves could travel
D) Slave patrols staffed by white southerners

Question 17

When was the slave trade officially abolished?

A) 1708
B) 1808
C) 1768
D) 1864

Question 18

____ laws were the laws in the south that discriminated against African-Americans.

A) Johnny Walker
B) Restrictatory
C) Freedom
D) Jim Crow

Question 19

Anti-immigrant feelings promoted the emergence of the _____ party.

A) Whig
B) Democrat-Republican
C) Know-Nothing
D) Know-It-All

Question 20

The great 2^nd wave of Immigration to the USA (in the late 19^th century and early 20^th) consisted mainly of ____.

A) Free Africans
B) South and Eastern Europeans
C) Western Europeans
D) Non-Chinese Asians

Question 21

Which was not a way congress tried to restrict immigration?

A) Free citizenship for relatives of immigrants
B) Literacy tests
C) Immigrant quotas
D) Laws requiring visas before entrance

Question 22

Which group was forced into camps by the US government during World War II?

A) German-Americans
B) Russian-Americans
C) Italian-Americans
D) Japanese-Americans

Question 23

Which was not one of the 3 priorities established by the 1965 amendment to immigration law?

A) Fluency in English
B) Reunite Families
C) Provide Asylum for Political Refugees
D) Permit Certain Skilled Workers into the Country

Question 24

In the US, which race has the highest median income?

A) White
B) Asian
C) Hispanic
D) Black

Question 25

In the US, which race has the highest wealth?

A) White
B) Asian
C) Hispanic
D) Black

Question 26

If a person from one group is willing to marry a person from an ethnic group, then that group is low in ______ from the first group.

A) Affection
B) Affluence
C) Social Distance
D) Social Mutuality

Question 27

The theory that people use ethnic groups as scapegoats is called the _____.

A) Mutual-Aggression Hypothesis
B) Hierarchical Enmity
C) Social Vindictiveness
D) Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

Question 28

_______ states that human beings are uncomfortable when their attitudes and beliefs are not consistent with each other.

A) Mutual-Aggression Hypothesis
B) Cognitive Dissonance Theory
C) Sarcomeric Hyperplasia Theory
D) Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

Question 29

High Car-Insurance rates for young men is an example of ______.

A) Racial Discrimination
B) Arbitrary Pettiness
C) Statistical Discrimination
D) Cognitive Dissonance

Question 30

People whose ancestors come from the same part of the world often share the same features.

Question 31

There is more genetic variety between races than within races.

Question 32

Lighter skinned people have always enslaved darker skinned people.

Question 33

An ethnic group is the same thing as a racial group.

Question 34

There was genocide in Rwanda.

Question 35

In Latin America, indigenous people are more likely to be wealthy than non-indigenous people.

Question 36

In rich countries immigrants tend to take the most desirable jobs, the jobs everybody wants.

Question 37

Immigrant groups are often ethnically or racially different from the dominant group.

Question 38

The Native Americans impressed the first European settlers with their many written languages.

Question 39

The Native Americans had a strict system of land rights.

Question 40

Native Americans were especially susceptible to European diseases.

Question 41

The Slave trade in Native Americans flourished for many years.

Question 42

Native Americans had strict laws concerning property ownership.

Question 43

George Washington was the president who passed the Indian Removal Act.

Question 44

Many Cherokee died on the "Trail of Tears".

Question 45

Some Cherokee owned slaves.

Question 46

The first Africans who came to the USA were slaves.

Question 47

In the 17^th century, the majority of African slaves were in North America.

Question 48

In the US, no slaves could testify against white people.

Question 49

Most southerners owned slaves.

Question 50

After the Civil War, many African-Americans were still discriminated against.

Question 51

Most of the Irish immigrants to the US came to escape genocide.

Question 52

The Know-Nothing party's main objective was open immigration for Catholics.

Question 53

Congress has never banned a nationality from obtaining US citizenship.

Question 54

In the early 20^th century Congress set a quota on immigration.

Question 55

African-Americans are more likely to be in poverty than whites.

Question 56

Black household income has decreased notably over the past 50 years.

Question 57

It is difficult to create mutually antagonistic in- and out- groups.

Question 58

All prejudiced people discriminate.

Question 59

What constitutes race?

Question 60

What jobs are immigrants likely to have in a country like the USA?

Question 61

Describe the Headscarf Dilemma in France.

Question 62

How did the introduction of firearms harm the Native Americans?

Question 63

What were some of the ways Europeans took land from the Native Americans?

Question 64

What are indentured servants?

Question 65

Give 3 rules put in place by white southerners to control the slaves.

Question 66

Describe 2 of the major immigrant groups in the 19^th century.Include why they came to the US.

Question 67

What were some of the ways Congress tried to restrict immigration?

Question 68

What happened to many Japanese-Americans during World War II?

Question 69

Describe the robbers cave experiment.What does it show?

Question 70

Describe the three great immigrant streams to the U.S.When did they occur? Which groups made up each stream? Why did they begin and end?

Question 71

Discuss why prejudice and discrimination seem to occur with regularity across human societies.