Race 2

Question 1

What and when was the Dred Scott decision?

Answer 1

It ruled that slaves were property and not entailed to the rights of citizens. 1857. (Hirschman 2004)

Question 2

How many years after WWII were almost all of the former colonial countries independent or in the transition to independence?

Answer 2

15 years (Hirschman 2004)

Question 3

What idea was popular in the US during the 1920s for promoting immigration restrictions for fear of higher fertility of the lower social classes and that inferior races would bring ruin to Western Civilization?

Answer 3

eugenics (Hirschman 2004)

Question 4

What was Plessy vs. Ferguson and when did it occur?

Answer 4

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”

Question 5

In the 1890 Census how were enumerators instructed to collect race data?

Answer 5

Write white, black, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Chinese, Japanese or Indian, according to the color or race of the persons enumerated.