Deck 4: The People: Women and Minorities

Question 1

Which terms apply to US attempts at redistributing wealth?

A) They have been moderately successful
B) They have been very successful
C) They have failed
D) They have been short-lived
E) They have never been tried

Answer 1

C,D
Explanation: Efforts to promote equal opportunity have been met with a similar lack of success.

Question 2

What does "affirmative action" refer to?

A) State welfare programs
B) Preferential treatment for women and minorities
C) Federal welfare programs
D) Supreme Court initiatives
E) Presidential initiatives

Answer 2

B
Explanation: This was an effort to correct the effects of past discrimination but, faced with increasingly strong opposition, such programs have now been abandoned.

Question 3

In which areas did 19th century female reformers mainly work?

A) Anti-slavery
B) Alcohol abuse
C) Prison conditions
D) Hospital conditions
E) Immigrant ghettos

Answer 3

Anti-slavery
Alcohol abuse
Prison conditions
Hospital conditions
Immigrant ghettos

Question 4

To what does "suffrage" refer?

A) Laws limiting working hours
B) Female imprisonment for minor offences
C) Female slavery
D) Low wages for women
E) The right to vote

Question 5

Which of the following are examples of a "protectionist" approach to women's rights?

A) Laws limiting working hours
B) Laws limiting occupational choices
C) Laws against racial discrimination
D) Laws about equal pay
E) Laws against female immigration

Question 6

That non-white and immigrant women are at several times greater risk of living in poverty is an example of what?

A) Reverse discrimination
B) Affirmative action
C) Third wave feminism
D) Equal opportunity
E) Feminization of poverty

Question 7

What is meant by "ratification" of an Act?

A) Rejection
B) Approval
C) Deferment
D) Re-drafting
E) Presidential approval

Question 8

Which if the following is a response to the sexual harassment and exploitation of women on the job?

A) #Me Too
B) Black Lives Matter
C) Third Wave feminism
D) Women's Lib
E) Suffragettes

Question 9

During World War II, concentration camps were created in the United States for which group?

A) Mexican immigrants
B) Japanese Americans
C) Chinese Americans
D) German Americans
E) Native Americans

Question 10

When were Indian reservations first established?

A) 1630s and 1640s
B) 1680s and 1690s
C) 1760s and 1770s
D) 1840s and 1850s
E) 1920s and 1930s

Question 11

Which country owned the land to the west of the Mississippi in 1800?

A) Mexico
B) Spain
C) England
D) France
E) United States

Question 12

In what year did all Native Americans acquire US citizenship?

A) 1776
B) 1865
C) 1900
D) 1924
E) 1950

Question 13

What were "Jim Crow laws" concerned with?

A) Blacks
B) Mexicans
C) Latinos
D) Whites
E) Native Americans

Question 14

With what are the Stonewall riots associated?

A) Race
B) Gay rights
C) Illegal immigrants
D) Latinos
E) Agricultural workers

Question 15

Discuss the factors that have contributed to the improved status of American women since the colonial period.

Question 16

Evaluate the motives and effects of US policy toward Native Americans.

Question 17

Describe the origins and current status of the Black Lives Matter movement. What, if anything, do you think it has accomplished?

Question 18

What was the Suffragette Movement? How did this relate to abolition, prohibition, and other social movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?