Unit 6 Ethnicities

Apartheid, a policy of racial segregation from 1948-1990, was the official policy of which country’s government?

• 1. South Africa

• 1. Zimbabwe

• 1. Kenya

• 1. Sudan

Asian populations in the United States are disproportionately concentrated in the

• Southwest

• West

• Plains States

• Northeast

Latinos and Hispanics are clustered in what areas of the United States?

• 1. Pacific Northwest, Plains States

• 1. Southwest, Southeast

• 1. Northeast, Cities

• 1. West, Southwest

The “separate but equal” doctrine was legally established by 

• 1. The Missouri Compromise

• The 14th Amendment

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

A nationality is best described as 

• 1. A country

• 1. A group with a shared religion, language and origin of birth

• 1. A group of people tied to a place through legal status and tradition

• 1. Any cohesive group of people

Ethnicities in the same country come into conflict when

• 1. They share a language

• 1. They have traditions of self-rule

• 1. Minority ethnicities are officially recognized

• 1. Wealth is evenly distributed

Which of the following is an example of a peaceful multinational state?

• 1. United States

• 1. North Korea

• 1. The United Kingdom

• 1. South Sudan

African Americans in the U.S. predominantly live in

• 1. Urban areas.

• 1. The South and northern US cities.

• 1. Rural areas of the South and Midwest.

• 1. Urban areas in California.

The “separate but equal” doctrine of racial equality was accompanied by

• 1. The end of the US Civil War.

• 1. The required integration of schools.

• 1. The end of legal discrimination in the American South.

• 1. “Jim Crow” laws across the American South.

The Brown v. Board of Education court decision ruled that

• 1. Separate schools for African Americans and white people were unconstitutional.

• 1. White flight” was morally wrong and should be curtailed.

• 1. Discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants were unconstitutional.

• 1. Separate facilities for African Americans and white people were acceptable so long as they were of the same quality.