Ideas of race in the late 19th centuries

Question 1

eugenics

Answer 1

is the scientific theory of racial improvement and planned breeding

Question 2

what methods would they use in eugenics

Answer 2

forced sterilisation, segregation, social exclusion, testing

Question 3

francis galton

Answer 3

a relative of charles but a big advocate for social dwarnism, an explorer and anthropologist known for his studies in eugenics and human intelligence

Question 4

scientific racism

Answer 4

an ideology that uses the methods and legitimacy of science to argue for the superiority of white europeans

Question 5

pseudo-science

Answer 5

a system of theories, assumptions and methods that are erroneously regarded as scientific

Question 6

social darwinism

Answer 6

the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animal

Question 7

what started the eugenics movement in the US

Answer 7

Charles davenport

Question 8

eugenics in australia

Answer 8

australia wanted to breed the aboriginal people out and would go to extreme lengths to do so

Question 9

australias stolen generation

Answer 9

we’re indigenous children who were forcefully taken away and placed into a good australian family and were encouraged to merry white men

Question 10

the law for the restoration of the professional civil service

Answer 10

took away the employment of non aryan workers in government jobs

Question 11

the law for the protection of german blood and honour

Answer 11

family law

Question 12

the reich citizenship law

Answer 12

declared germans were citizens of the state and jews were subjects to the state

Question 13

what were the 9 conditions

Answer 13

1 - feeble mindedness
2 - manic - depressive disorder 
3 - schizophrenia 
4 - hereditary dementia 
5 - genetic epilepsy 
6 - genetic blindness
7 - genetic deafness
8 - severe physical deformity
9 - chronic alcoholism