MULTIETHNIC AMERICAExam 2 Review

Chapters 5 and 6Three early periods of immigration and their characteristics

•The colonial Period, Early National Period, Pre-Civil War Period •Know the following terms, their definitions and context within these periods of US ethnic relations:

• WASP, • Scapegoating, • Xenophobia and nativism

•Know the main characteristics about the following groups, particularily as they relate to cultural impact, labor and economic conditions, religion, and reception by other more dominant groups•The English•The Germans•The Irish•The Dutch•Polish Americans•Italians

Chapter 7. Native Americans• Be familiar with the treaties and court rulings, and official

policies regarding Native Americans• Know how structural conditions affect Native Americans in

the following areas of life• Housing, education, health, suicide, poverty, substance abuse,

• Know about the government’s efforts to “assimilate” Native Americans

Chapter 10. Black Americans • How has the percentage gap between Blacks and Whites

completing high school changed since the 1960s? How about family incomes?

• How do black Americans fair in terms of poverty in the United States? What about Marital assimilation (intermarriage)?

• What is meant by Institutionalized racism? When does it occur? • What do sociologist mean when they argue that the problems with

racism in America are its legacy and its subtlety?• What were Jim crow laws and why did they remain strong for so

long?• What did the 1954 supreme court ruling on Brown vs. The Board

of education of Topeka, Kansas do? • What is the importance of the Civil Rights Legislation of 1965• What is meant by

• Dejure Segregation• Defacto Segregation