Racial Segregation during Industrialization in U.S. MCQ
Racial Segregation during Industrialization in U.S. MCQ
1. A system of farming often used in the South during de jure segregation. The sharecropper (often black), or tenant, worked the land, which was actually owned by someone else (usually white), in return for a share of the profits at harvest time is called
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Sharecropping
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2. Service (or tertiary) occupations describes the Jobs that involve providing services, such as retail clerk, janitor, and schoolteacher.
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True
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3. The segment of the labor market that includes low-paying, low-skilled, insecure jobs is called ________ labor market
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Secondary
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4. A rigid competitive group system of group relations in which the dominant group seeks to exclude _______ groups or limit their ability to compete for scarce resources such as jobs.
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Minority
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5. The period of southern race relations following the Civil War. Reconstruction lasted from 1865 until the _______ and witnessed many racial reforms, all of which were reversed during de jure segregation, or the Jim Crow era.
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1880s
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6. The segment of the ________ labor market that encompasses better-paying, higher-status, more-secure jobs, usually in large bureaucracies.
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Primary
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7. Past-in-present institutional discrimination explains the patterns of inequality or unequal treatment in the present that are caused by some pattern of discrimination in the past.
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True
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8. Modern institutional discrimination explains a more subtle and covert form of institutional discrimination that is often unintentional and unconscious.
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True
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9. __________ Occupations involving the transformation of raw materials into finished products ready for the marketplace. An example is an assembly line worker in an automobile plant.
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Manufacturing
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10. The Jim Crow system describes the rigid competitive race relations that followed Reconstruction in the South. The system lasted from the 1880s until the _________ and was characterized by laws mandating racial separation and inequality.
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1960s
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11. ________ competitive Systems explains the group relations in which minority-group members are freer to compete for jobs and other scarce resources; associated with advanced industrialization.
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Fluid
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12. Those that produce raw materials, such as food and agricultural products, minerals, and lumber; often involve unskilled manual labor, require little formal education, and are generally low paying in extractive occupations.
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True
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13. The shift from a manufacturing economy to a service-oriented, information-processing economy is called
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Deindustrialization
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14. De jure segregation describes the racial segregation that is institutionalized in local and _____________
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State Law
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15. Programs designed to reduce the effects of past institutional discrimination or increase diversity in workplaces and schools is called _________ action
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Affirmative
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16. By 1930, 90% of African American women were employed in which of the following occupational categories?
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Agriculture and domestic service
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17. Paternalistic relationships are found in ______ societies.
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Labor-intensive
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18. The decline in manufacturing and the expansion of the service and information-based sectors marked the agrarian era of subsistence technology.
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False
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19. Which of the following best describes the practice of sharecropping?
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A system of farming where a tenant worked the land in exchange for a share of profits from an owner who supplied a place to live and credit for food and clothing.
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20. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and property requirements were methods of ______ in southern Black communities.
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Disenfranchisement
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21. The period from 1865 to the 1880s when the federal government enforced racial freedom in the South is known as ______.
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Reconstruction
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22. According to the text, dominant-minority relations change as the political climate changes.
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False
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23. As the economy has changed, so have dominant-minority relations. In today’s fluid competitive system which of the following is most likely to occur?
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Formal and legal barriers to job competition are largely eliminated
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24. De jure segregation and Jim Crow system mean the same thing.
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True
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25. One of the most infamous systems of racial segregation--called Apartheid--was constructed in South Africa.
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True
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26. Which term most accurately describes the African American experience during the era of southern segregation and migration to the North?
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Structural pluralism
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27. In what year was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded?
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1909
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28. The movement of African Americans to the North benefited White immigrants in those areas by making them less undesirable by contrast.
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True
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29. The system of race relations that replaced slavery in the South was de jure segregation, which is also sometimes called the ______ system.
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Jim Crow
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30. The Great Migration was not only a movement of African Americans away from the south but also ______.
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Away from the country and to the city
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