Deck 6: African Americans

Question 1

Which Amendment abolished slavery throughout the nation?

A) Thirteenth
B) Fourteenth
C) Fifteenth
D) Seventeenth

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Assigning children to school based on race rather than by location is known as

A) de jure segregation
B) institutional segregation
C) residential segregation
D) de facto segregation

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In 1955,which African American woman made history by her act of civil disobedience?

A) Harriet Tubman
B) Sojourner Truth
C) Rosa Parks
D) Linda Brown

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to the text,what country has the eighth largest African-American population in the world?

A) Brazil
B) Ghana
C) Ethiopia
D) United States

Question 5

In 1942,what organization was founded to fight discrimination with nonviolent direct action?

A) African Americans for Equal Opportunity
B) Black Panthers
C) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D) The Congress of Racial Equality

Question 6

Which event of the Civil Rights Movement was considered to be the most significant one?

A) Brown vs. Board of Education
B) March on Washington
C) Boycott of bus system
D) Freedom Ride to Mississippi

Question 7

Washington and Du Bois became leaders in the African American community.Washington was born into a _____ family while Du Bois was born into a _____ family.

A) free; slave
B) sharecropper; free
C) slave; free
D) sharecropper; slave

Question 8

From 1900 to 2010,the percent of African Americans in the South decreased from ___% to ___ %.

A) 55; 33
B) 90: 55
C) 75; 33
D) 65; 45

Question 9

Who was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard?

A) W.E.B. Du Bois
B) Booker T. Washington
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 10

Martin Luther King's strategy when engaging in acts of civil disobedience included all of the following except

A) being willing to accept suffering without retaliation
B) attacking the forces of evil rather than the people
C) refusing to hate the opponent
D) seeking to defeat or humiliate opponents for retribution

Question 11

Which of the following is not true?

A) Restrictive covenants allowed minorities to rent or buy property in any neighborhood
B) Restrictive covenants were, eventually, ruled to be unconstitutional
C) Restrictive covenants provided power to neighborhood property owners to decipher who would be allowed to live in their neighborhood
D) B and C

Question 12

The text states that slavery began in North American more than how many centuries ago?

A) four and a half
B) two and a half
C) three and a half
D) one and a half

Question 13

Slavery reparation refers to the act of

A) healing the Black community through embracing various rites of passage from their ancestors
B) righting the wrongs of slavery through financial compensation
C) making amends for the injustice of slavery
D) empowering youth to rise above the inhumane treatment of their ancestors and unite for equality of all races

Question 14

Which Amendment outlawed the poll tax that prevented African Americans from voting?

A) Nineteenth
B) Twenty-First
C) Twenty-Fourth
D) Twenty-Sixth

Question 15

A black man's only recognized family role was

A) to discipline his partner and offspring
B) to earn money to support his family
C) to provide shelter and food for his family
D) to be the sex partner of a woman

Question 16

Which of the following is not true for Sundown towns?

A) Non-white residents experienced harassment from law enforcement officers
B) Non-white residents were permitted to be sharecroppers in the community
C) Non-White residents were excluded from residing in the community
D) B and C

Question 17

In what year did the U.S.Supreme Court rule that "separate but equal" accommodations for Blacks were a reasonable use of state governmental power?

A) 1863
B) 1896
C) 1876
D) 1898

Question 18

Who was responsible for deciding what age a child should begin working in the fields?

A) Mother of child
B) Father of child
C) Master
D) Child

Question 19

Which of the following was not part of the slave codes?

A) Slaves were not allowed to make a will or inherit anything
B) Slaves were allowed to learn how to read and write as long as his/her owner was the teacher
C) Slaves could not possess weapons or liquor
D) Slaves had to obey curfews

Question 20

What president is responsible for desegregating the armed forces?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Harry Truman
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) John F. Kennedy

Question 21

Which of the following is not true for African Americans?

A) The standard of living improved remarkably after World War II
B) Research showed that the rioters were not poor and uneducated rather; they included working-class and middle-class citizens
C) Even though the quality of life was improving, many African Americans experienced relative deprivation on a regular basis
D) The civil rights movement gave higher aspirations for African Americans, especially when their quality of life was improving

Question 22

In determining Black life-chances in a modern world,Wilson claims that

A) race is more important than class
B) gender is more important than class
C) class is more important than race
D) race, class, and gender are equally important.

Question 23

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,people are considered unemployed only if they are

A) actively seeking employment
B) registered with a government employment agency
C) not holding a full-time job
D) all of the above

Question 24

According to the text,what is the key to social mobility for all racial and ethnic groups?

A) communication skills and integrity
B) group solidarity
C) formal education
D) occupation in the government

Question 25

Which of the following does not reflect Robert Hill's analysis of African American families?

A) Poor Black families do not have a strong work ethic
B) Working-class Black families have a greater desire for their children to attend college than do working-class White families
C) Black families have a strong religious orientation
D) Typically, Black families have an extended family household, which allows pooling of financial resources

Question 26

Working at a job for which one is overqualified,involuntarily working part time instead of full time,or being employed on an intermittent basis is known as

A) underemployment
B) the riff-raff theory
C) redlining
D) the discounting principle

Question 27

James Meredith marched from Memphis to Jackson,Mississippi to

A) empower fellow African Americans to unite and speak out against discrimination
B) encourage African Americans to set aside their fears and vote
C) empower young African Americans to obtain an education and run for office. He believed that the only way to equality was to obtain equal representation in Congress
D) A and C

Question 28

The FBI states that most violent crimes against Whites are committed by

A) Blacks
B) Latinos
C) Whites
D) A and B

Question 29

In the FBI's Uniform Crime Report,what percent of arrests do Blacks account for?

A) 39%
B) 28%
C) 12%
D) 19%

Question 30

Martin Luther King,Jr.was murdered _____ years after his "I Have a Dream" speech.

A) five
B) three
C) seven
D) one

Question 31

In 2012,how many African Americans were leading one of the Fortune 500 companies?

A) eight
B) four
C) six
D) two

Question 32

Regarding education,which of the following is not true?

A) Black children are just as likely to earn their high school diploma as White children
B) White children are more likely to have formal prekindergarten education than Black children
C) Currently, the percentage of adults receiving college degrees is divided equally among Whites and Blacks
D) All of the above

Question 33

Which of the following is true in regards to social mobility?

A) Whites are twice as likely as Blacks to exceed their parent's wealth
B) Black children are less likely to end up in the middle class than White children
C) Blacks are about 3 times more likely to be reared in a poor household than Whites
D) A and B

Question 34

Which sociologist refers to class as individuals who share a similar level of wealth and income?

A) W.E.B. Du Bois
B) Max Weber
C) E. Franklin Frazier
D) Harriet Martineau

Question 35

What was the driving force behind the Civil Rights Movement?

A) assimilation
B) fusion
C) pluralism
D) expulsion