Sociology

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Which of the following occurred as a result of the government?s policy of termination?

About 100 tribes were terminated.

Asian cultures unlike Western cultures tend not to stress ______.

a. excessive individualism

The notion that Asian Americans are a model minority ______.

a. has negative consequences

As a result of the Dawes Act of 1887, Native Americans ______.

a. lost most of their land

Women in Native American tribes ______.

a. often held important economic and political roles

The Chinese who immigrated to the United States in the 19th century were mostly ______.

a. younger men

The socioeconomic profile of immigrants from Vietnam Cambodia

and Laos is ______., b. more consistent with America?s colonized minority groups

Which of the following statements is true of Asian American cultures?

b. Asian cultures predate the founding of the United States by centuries.

The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) was founded by 25 Native American tribes in order to ______.

manage and develop the natural resources controlled by tribes

In 2004, the Native American Church?s right to use ______ was upheld by the Supreme Court of Utah.

b. peyote

Chinese immigrants? ability to find economic opportunity in areas with low competition with the dominant group allowed them to ______.

b. remain an ?invisible? minority

The Great Sioux Nation tribes protested the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline because the pipeline ______.

b. threatened sacred land and burial sites

The function of boarding schools for Native Americans was to ______.

c. enforce Americanization of Native youth

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was managed by ______.

c. members from many different tribes

The rate of intermarriage for Native Americans is ______.

c. quite high compared to other groups

In the early reservation period, tribal membership was determined by ______.

c. the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Like ______ Americans Chinese and Japanese Americans have used their traditional cultures and patterns of social life to create and build their own subcommunities from which they have launched the next generation.

d. Cuban

The generation of immigrants born in Japan was called ______.

d. Issei

Most U.S. history textbooks credit ______ for the discovery of the land known as America.

e. Europeans

Ozawa v. U.S. was a 1922 Supreme Court decision that declared that ______.

a. Asians were ineligible for U.S. citizenship

In order to be governed by the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act, tribes were required to ______.

b. adopt a constitution and hold elections

The relative success of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans is often used as a device for ______.

b. erasing institutional racism

The necessity of members of the Red Power movement to become fluent in English, law, and policy in order to advocate for tribal autonomy supports which of the following conclusions about assimilation?

c. Assimilation and pluralism can occur simultaneously.

In 1907 the "gentlemen's agreement" was signed between the United States and ______ limiting the number of laborers allowed to emigrate.

c. Japan

The most acculturated Asian American group is ______.

c. Japanese Americans

Which of the following statements about Native Americans in the United States is true?

c. Less than 1% of all Native Americans hold a seat in an elected office.

In what way did the Red Power movement lead to more assimilation?

c. Native Americans from different tribes had to find common bonds in order to work together.

The Trail of Broken Treaties was a protest march to ______.

c. Washington, D.C.

The sending nations of contemporary Asian immigrants are considerably less ______ than the United States.

c. developed

By 1960 ______ had an occupational profile very similar to that of Whites except for the fact that they were overrepresented among professionals.

d. Japanese Americans

Which of the following statements about Native Americans is true?

d. The rate of out-marriage for Native Americans is quite high compared with other groups.

Which of the following resulted from the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act?

d. Tribes were granted increased control over the administration of reservations.

The grandchildren of second-generation Japanese Americans were called ______.

d. Yonsei

Research shows that native-born Asian Americans were ______ likely to marry outside their groups than foreign-born Asian Americans.

d. much more

Secret societies called ______ contested the control and leadership of the merchant-led huiguan as well as clan associations present in Chinatown.

d. tongs

Which of the following was an outcome of the Indian Reorganization Act?

e. Tribes gained political power if they adopted Anglo-American political forms.

An immigrant from Vietnam or Laos would likely be migrating to the United States ______.

e. as a political prisoner

On Native American reservations, unemployment ______.

e. has risen to a range of 70?80% on the smaller, more isolated reservations

When comparing Asian and European immigrants

which of the following statements is true?, b. Asian immigrants are described as model minorities.


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