African Americans

Question 1

Which statement is least true of African Americans?

Answer 1

Poverty rates have steadily gone down since the late 1980s.

Question 2

Which is least true of African Americans’ income?


Answer 2

Income as a percentage of white income is less than in 1960.

Question 3

What least accounts for the drop in black income as a percentage of white income in the 1980s?


Answer 3

increases in unskilled jobs

Question 4

Which is least true of African Americans?

Answer 4

Government programs account for the increase in African Americans’ income.

Question 5

The ratio of black unemployment to white unemployment is (closest to)

Answer 5

2.4 to 1.

Question 6

Which is least true of African American incumbency in white-collar jobs?

Answer 6

Only college-educated men have achieved parity with white men.


Question 7

Which is not true of African American educational attainment?

Answer 7

Blacks have increased as a percentage of the college population in recent years.

Question 8

Which is not true of residential segregation of African Americans

Answer 8

Rates of segregation declined dramatically in the 1980s.


Question 9

Which is most true of the life span of African Americans?

Answer 9

It has increased for both men and women.

Question 10

During the period immediately before the Civil War when abolitionists challenged slavery, the negative beliefs toward African Americans changed toward


Answer 10

both a and c.

Question 11

Progressive beliefs about African Americans crystallized only in the

Answer 11

post-World War II period.

Question 12

Which was not part of the broad legal framework of slavery?

Answer 12

Children would inherit the father’s status

Question 13

Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery?

Answer 13

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 14

In terms of the numbers of black slaves executed, which statement is not true for the period between 1641 and 1965?

Answer 14

More slaves were executed for revolts than for any other offense

Question 15

Which is not true of the legal framework of slavery

Answer 15

Slaves inherited their father’s status.

Question 16

The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Answer 16

extended suffrage to African Americans

Question 17

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court

Answer 17

ruled that segregated facilities for blacks and whites were not in violation of the Constitution.


Question 18

The U.S. Supreme Court did not overrule its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson until

Answer 18

the 1950s.

Question 19

Which of the following periods represents the most dramatic assault on the legal basis of discrimination against African Americans?


Answer 19

1950-1970


Question 20

In which of the following U.S. Supreme Court decisions did the Court strike down school segregation?

Answer 20

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 21

Which of the following statements is not true about African Americans at the turn of the century?


Answer 21

Conditions for blacks began to improve.


Question 22

In which of the following years did Congress enact specific legislation designed to eliminate the tactics used to exclude blacks from voting?


Answer 22

1965

Question 23

Compulsory “ignorance laws” were part of

Answer 23

slavery

Question 24

According to survey data, which of the following is not true of white beliefs about blacks?


Answer 24

Whites believe in group-preference programs as a way to overcome the problems of blacks.

Question 25

Which was the first black university in America?


Answer 25

Lincoln college

Question 26

Housing discrimination has consequences for people’s

Answer 26

all of the above

Question 27

.In which of the following periods did the present patterns of housing discrimination and segregation in urban areas begin to develop?

Answer 27

1900-1920

Question 28

__________ have (has) increased housing segregation of African Americans.
A.The loan policies of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA)

Answer 28

All off the above

Question 29

Which of the following was the least likely form of African American protest during slavery?


Answer 29

revolt

Question 30

Besides radical Reconstruction, which of the following was the most important governmental effort to help the poor and African Americans?

Answer 30

the Great Society

Question 31

Which of the following does not explain the present status of African Americans in U.S. society?

Answer 31

their incompetence to compete in society


Question 32

.Segregated housing for African Americans


Answer 32

reduces their opportunity to attend good schools.

Question 33

The civil rights legislation of the 1960s was ineffective against discrimination because

Answer 33

the burden of litigation was placed on the victim of discrimination.


Question 34

Despite desegregation efforts in public schools, black children still attend schools in which

Answer 34

they are the overwhelming numerical majority

Question 35

The first non-black college to admit black students in significant numbers was


Answer 35

Oberlin

Question 36

.A 1991 study conducted by the Urban Institute shows that

Answer 36

blacks still suffer from discrimination in the job market.


Question 37

Southern blacks began moving to northern states because of

Answer 37

agricultural mechanization in the South

Question 38

The importation of blacks for slavery was facilitated by


Answer 38

he cultural beliefs about their bestial nature.

Question 39

In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated public facilities for blacks did not violate

Answer 39

the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Question 40

Busing of children to achieve racial balance in public schools and affirmative action policies

Answer 40

increased white resentment of blacks.


Question 41

.Scoring 100 on a residential segregation index means that

Answer 41

there is complete residential segregation.


Question 42

A high unemployment rate for blacks reflects


Answer 42

a concentration of black workers in jobs with limited job security.

Question 43

The percentage of blacks in white-collar jobs in 1990 was

Answer 43

about 10 percent less than the percentage of whites in white-collar jobs.

Question 44

Since the mid-1960s, poverty in the African American population has

Answer 44

steadily increased.