Eugenics Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
1
Q

What is eugenics?

A

the self direction of human evolution, breeding better babies, improving genetics

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Who invented the dog whistle?

A

Francis Galton

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What is Galton’s theory about ‘genuis’?

A

That it is hereditary

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Who is Galtons famous cousin?

A

Charles Darwin

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

When did Galton publish “Hereditary Genuis”?

A

1869

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What is race suicide?

A

If you cannot have children it is a misfortune, although if you ca have healthy well born babies and choose not to it is a crime for which you should be punished

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What is negative Eugentics

A

the discouragement of having more children of a person deemed less desirable

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Did Helen Keller support Eugenics

A

yes, along with John Kellogg’s, Alexander Graham Bell and Margaret Sanger

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What is feeblemindedness?

A

Intellectual incapacity

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Why were people sterilized?

A

For being inferior, disabled, feebleminded, criminalistic, insane, diseased, blind, deaf, deformed, homeless

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What court case occurred in 1927, what happened?

A

Buck v. Bell, 17 year old girl raped, child born out of wedlock, deemed feebleminded and institutionalized because of rape, baby taken, she is forced to be sterilized

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Who were the first victims of the holocaust?

A

Disabled children

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Who were the undesirables, or people who were preferred to be sterilized?

A

Black woman, Mexicans, Asians, mentally ill, Native Americans, and promiscuous women

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?

A

A civil rights activist, who was sterilized forcibly

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly