Midterms Pt. 3

Question 1

What are some example of imperialism in our modern history?

Answer 1

Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guwam, Martial Islands

Question 2

What is the Banana Republic?

Answer 2

central american Republic in which U.S. (dole) grow bananas, reduced the types of bananas grow

Question 3

Nigerian economist Ngozi Okongo-Iweala said in “Rising Africa” that Africa should:

a) invest in infrastructure
b) increase government transparency
c) educate girls
d) none of the above
e) all of the above

Answer 3

all of the above

Question 4

______ ________ ______ was a West African legal scholar.

Answer 4

Anton Wilhelm Arvo

Question 5

What is social construction?

Answer 5

• “created” by people within a culture or soecity
• it exists because people agree it exists
• society has the power to deconstruct

Question 6

The meaning of race is ________ and ________ throughout society in both collective action and individual practice

Answer 6

defined

contested

Question 7

The meaning of race is defined and contested throughout society in both _________ ______ and __________ _______

Answer 7

collective action

individual practice

Question 8

What is prejudice?

Answer 8

prejudgement by an individual or group (usually negative) which results in negative behavior towards an individual or group

Question 9

Is this ethnicity or race: cultural identity

Answer 9

ethnicity

Question 10

Is this ethnicity or race: where are you from

Answer 10

ethnicity

Question 11

Is this ethnicity or race: broad generalization

Answer 11

ethnicity

Question 12

Is this ethnicity or race: skin color and particular features

Answer 12

race

Question 13

Is this ethnicity or race: body types

Answer 13

race

Question 14

Is this ethnicity or race: hair

Answer 14

race

Question 15

Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

argued that every culture has intrinsic value

Answer 15

Von Herder

Question 16

Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

debunked the myth of skin color has inherent value

Answer 16

Beattie

Question 17

Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

refuted Hume by stating the wanders of these giant civilizations

Answer 17

Beattie

Question 18

Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

the fact that enslaved Africans would rise through servitude showed their brilliance

Answer 18

Beattie

Question 19

Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

suggested no aestetic value of Africans

Answer 19

Kant

Question 20

Who argued that the “black color of the negro has nothing in it more wonderful than the white, brown, yellow or reddish of other nations”?

Answer 20

Von Herder

Question 21

Kant classifies humans by:

a) looks
b) moral feelings
c) both
d) neither

Answer 21

both

Question 22

True or False: Billie Holliday was a famous concert singer who received an NAACP award from Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 22

False; it was Marian Anderson

Question 23

___ _______ ___ _____ created a system for typing blood plasma

Answer 23

Dr. Charles R. Drew

Question 24

In 1773 Phyllis Wheatley was the 1st Black woman to publish?

Answer 24

poetry

Question 25

How is a lotus flower symbolic?

Answer 25

1) it grows in mud | 2) has cause and effect simultaneously

Question 26

In _____, negro was just removed from the U.S. census

Answer 26

2010

Question 27

How many nations are in Africa?

Answer 27

54

Question 28

What was Fredrick Douglass's original name?

Answer 28

Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey

Question 29

When and where was Fredrick Douglass born?

Answer 29

1817 or 1818; near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland

Question 30

When and where did Fredrick Douglass escape?

Answer 30

1838, escaped to New York City, where he married Anna, Murray, a free colored woman

Question 31

During the 1900s which Europeans were the major traders along the Western cost of Africa?

Answer 31

Portugese

Question 32

The Arabs, enslaved Africans from which regions?

Answer 32

North Africa and East Africa

Question 33

In 1885 Sarah Goode became the 1st Black woman issued a U.S. patient which was for?

Answer 33

bed that folded into a cabinet

Question 34

When did Dred Scoott v. Sanford occur, and what was the verdict of that trial?

Answer 34

1857; declared enslaved and formerly enslaved Africans were not citizens not guaranteed rights

Question 35

When was the civil war ended?

Answer 35

1865

Question 36

When did Plessy v. Ferguson occur, and what was the verdict of that case?

Answer 36

1896; legalized seperate but equal accomodations

Question 37

When did Brown v. Board of Education occur?

Answer 37

1954

Question 38

What happened in 1948?

Answer 38

Presidential Executive order desegregated the U.S. military

Question 39

When did Casper v. Aaron occur, and what did it accomplish?

Answer 39

1958; made states enforce the Brown decision

Question 40

When did the Civil Rights Act occur, and what did it accomplish?

Answer 40

1969; outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin

Question 41

When did the Voting Rights Act occur, and what did it accomplish?

Answer 41

1965; outlawed discriminatory voting practices