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Chapter 01 Practice Quiz
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Race is best defined, in terms of its lifespan, as an idea that:
a. emerged independently worldwide at different time periods
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b. possessed an enduring and ancient usage
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c. formed within colonial eras and during the enslavement of African-descended people
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Racism can take form as _______________.
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b. a practice
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c. both a belief and a practice
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The negative beliefs that the English held about _____ may have shaped how they, the English, understood Native Americans.
a. Irish people
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b. African-descended people
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c. peasants
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The ______________ during the Spanish Inquisition was one early influence on the idea of race.
a. purity of blood concept
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b. forced assimilation of Jewish and Muslim people
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c. court hearings concerning identity
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony ______ the idea of race to categorize Native Americans.
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b. rarely used
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c. did use
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________ codes are important because they initially crystalized the idea of race by creating a separate class of people for exploitation.
a. Slave
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b. Jim Crow
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c. Colony
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Researchers used science to try to show ________________by measuring skulls and brains.
a. equal intelligence among groups
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b. equality among racialized groups
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c. white superiority and a biological basis to race
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The removal (as exemplified by the experience of the Trail of Tears) of American Indian communities was influenced by the ideology of ______________.
a. Manifold Destiny
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b. Manifest Destiny
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c. White and American Indian Destiny
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The practices of classifying human groups was influenced by _______________.
a. classification practices that categorized plants and animals
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b. Biblical classification systems
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c. the classification systems of political hierarchies
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What early forces influence our ideas of race today?
a. colonialism, slavery, and the development of science
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b. capitalism and colonialism
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c. science and social-class structures
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In the first 200 years in the Americas, populations of native groups declined by:
a. 25 percent
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b. 75 percent
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c. 95 percent
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Early justifications of the slave trade in the Americas included:
a. ideologies of racial inferiority held by White slave owners
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b. agricultural and craft knowledge brought by African people
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c. geographical unfamiliarity of African people with the landscapes
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