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Test Bank, Chapter 1

True/False

• Race is based on biological distinctions.

True False*

• Race is a social and historical construction with no biological basis.

True* False

• The idea of race as a classification system has been around since ancient times.

True False*

• In general, racial categories in the United States have not changed across history.

True False*

• In the 1600s, people in the Americas would have distinguished themselves according to their

race, including white, black, or Indian.True False*

• Ian, who was born in the United States, identifies strongly with Irish culture because of his

family history there and his interest in traditional Celtic music. For Ian, an Irish identity is best classified as an ethnicity.True* False

• The prevalence of slavery in ancient societies, such as ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, is

proof that racism existed in antiquity.True False*

• The status of slaves varied across societies, with some slaves being adopted into the family,

allowed to marry, or even owning property.True* False

• The only people forced into slavery in the Americas were from Africa.

True False* 2 / 4

• Until the eighteenth century, no society categorically denied the humanity of slaves.

True* False

• Bacon’s Rebellion was a key indicator that hostility existed between white servants and black

slaves.True False*

• Elites strategically extended more privileges to white servants as opposed to black slaves to

prevent the two groups from joining forces in rebellion.True* False

• White racial superiority was the initial justification for slavery in the Americas but later was

replaced by religious justifications.True False*

• Scientists, such as Samuel George Morton, used measures of skull size and human abilities to

show that whites were superior over other groups.True* False

• The Emancipation Proclamation demonstrated a change in American attitudes toward white

superiority, with supporters such as Abraham Lincoln calling for social and political equality between whites and blacks.True False*

Multiple Choice

• Race is
• based on biological distinctions.

*b. a social and historical construction.

• a religious construction.
• All of the above

• The term “race” refers to a group of people who
• originate from the same continent and share similar religious identities.
• have the same skin color.

*c. share physical and cultural traits as well as a common ancestry.

• self-identify as belonging to the same ethnic category.
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• Racism refers to the
• belief that races are populations of people whose physical differences are linked to

significant cultural and social differences.

• belief that innate hierarchical racial differences can be measured and judged.
• practice of subordinating races believed to be inferior.

*d. All of the above

• The idea of race as a classificatory system

*a. is a modern invention.

• has existed since ancient times.
• stemmed from Europeans’ first interactions with people in Africa, Asia, and India.
• developed in response to slaves captured after European conquests.

• What distinguishes race from ethnicity?

*a. Race implies a set of hierarchical distinctions based on physical and cultural differences and is often a category imposed by others; ethnicity refers to a shared identity based on group culture and history and is more often self-selected.

• Ethnicity implies a set of hierarchical distinctions based on physical and cultural

differences and is often a category imposed by others; race refers to a shared identity based on group culture and history and is more often self-selected.

• Race is a census category; ethnicity is not.
• Ethnicity is a census category; race is not.

• Colonialism, slavery, and genocide are all examples of
• biological forces shaping race.

*b. historical forces shaping race.

• scientific racism.
• the legal codification of race.

• Fill in the blank: The _____ set an important historical precedent for current understandings of

race.

• Egyptian invasion of Asia
• Greco-Persian wars

*c. conflicts between England and Ireland

• All of the above

• The Spanish Inquisition helped to shape the European understanding of human difference

because it *a. set a precedent of discrimination based on ancestry.

• was the first time people were discriminated against because of their race.
• was the first time people were classified based on their religion.
• set a precedent of using other racial groups as slaves.

• What percentage of the Native population was eradicated as a result of two centuries of

European colonization?

• 10 percent
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