Deck 1: The Origin of the Idea of Race

Question 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.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Race is

A) a historical construct.
B) a social construct.
C) a legal construct.
D) a historical and social construct.

Answer 2

D

Question 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.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Since antiquity, enslaved people have existed in

A) Chinese Societies.
B) Middle Eastern Societies.
C) Spanish Societies.
D) Romanian Societies.

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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.

Question 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.

Question 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.

Question 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.

Question 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.

Question 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

Question 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.

Question 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

Question 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

Question 16

Who contributed to the emergence and growth of scientific racism?

A) Samuel George Merton
B) Herbert Hoover
C) Joseph Ward
D) Edward Lewis

Question 17

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

A) Chicanos.
B) Aztecas.
C) Mestizaje.
D) Latinos.

Question 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.

Question 19

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

A) 60,000
B) 70,000
C) 80,000
D) 90,000

Question 20

Most African slaves brought to America from West Africa were

A) Yoruba.
B) Igbo.
C) Fulani.
D) All of the above.

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

What does colonialism mean?

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

What kinds of abuse were the Spaniards known for committing?

Question 28

Where were some of the first places England sent colonists?

Question 29

What role did religion play in colonizing the Indigenous tribes?

Question 30

What kind of treatment did African slaves get before 1660?

Question 31

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

Question 32

What was the role of colonization in slavery?

Question 33

What is the difference between indentured servitude and slavery?

Question 34

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