1. Plantation System explains A labor-intensive form of agriculture that requires large tracts of land and a large, cheap labor force. This was the dominant form of agricultural production in the American South before the Civil War.
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2. Paternalism describes a form of dominant–minority relations often associated with plantation-based, labor-intensive, agrarian technology. In paternalistic relations, minority groups are extremely unequal and highly controlled.
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True
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3. Contract laborers who are obligated to serve a particular master for a specified length of time are called Indentured ________.
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Servants
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4. The Immigrant minority explains Groups whose initial contact with the ________ group was through immigration.
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Dominant
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5. Judging other groups, societies, or _______ by the standards of one’s own is called ethnocentrism
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Cultures
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6. The differential in power explains the any difference between two or more groups in their ability to achieve their goals .
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True
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7. A situation in which two or more parties struggle for control of some scarce resource is called
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Competition
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8. Colonized Minority Groups whose initial contact with the _______ group was through conquest or colonization.
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Dominant
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9. An item of personal property. In a system of chattel slavery, slaves were defined by law not as persons but as the personal property of their owners is called chattel
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True
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10. A closed system of stratification with no mobility between positions. A person’s class at birth is permanent and unchangeable is called
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Caste System
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11. Blauner hypothesis explains the States that minority groups created by colonization will experience more intense prejudice, racism, and discrimination than those created by immigration.
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True
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12. The movement to ______ slavery is called abolitionism.
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Abolish
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13. Which minority group was not created during the preindustrial era?
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Asian Pacific Islanders
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14. For Native American and Mexican American women, the results of contact with Anglo culture were ______.
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Varied; their status relative to men sometimes rose, although always in the context of conquest and colonization
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15. Historical documents indicate that slavery in the United States was inevitable.
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False
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16. What was the result of Nat Turner’s 1831 attempt to lead slaves to freedom?
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Greater oppression and control by the dominant group
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17. In the Southwest, it was only in ______ that Mexican Americans retained some measure of political power and economic clout into the 20th century.
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New Mexico
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18. The Noel hypothesis is the single most important factor in the development of dominant--minority relations, and it will have long-term consequences.
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False
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19. According to the Noel Hypothesis, the three features of the contact situation that, when combined, result in inequality between groups are ______.
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Ethnocentrism, competition, differential in power
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20. All of the following are true of ethnocentrism except it ______.
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Is a historical construct that has been declining since World War II
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21. By 1890, the population of Native Americans in the continental United States ______.
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Decreased dramatically--by about 75%
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22. Contract laborers who are obligated to serve a master for a specific number of years are called ______.
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Indentured servants
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23. Robert Blauner’s hypothesis suggests that assimilation and integration into the dominant society are much easier for colonized groups than for immigrant groups.
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False
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24. The Noel Hypothesis states that if two or more groups come together in a contact situation characterized by ethnocentrism, competition and a differential in power, then some form of racial or ethnic stratification will occur.
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True
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25. The first African Americans--as the cargo of a Dutch ship--arrived in the British colonies in Virginia in ______.
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1619
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26. According to the Blauner Hypothesis, the two types of initial relationships identified are ______.
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Colonization and immigration
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