Study Guide for Midterm AMH 2097 Fall 2012 Robbins Basic Information The exam is Tuesday October 9 2012 in our classroom during class time Please Bring a PENCIL for the scan tron portion of the exam Please come on time I will NOT ALLOW any student to begin taking an exam once the first student turns in their exam I will not allow a makeup for tardiness The material covered for the exam will be all lectures through Thursday October 4th Chinese The groups ideas included for this exam are the Introduction to Race Ethnicity and Nationality and the History of Immigration WASPs Africans African Americans and Irish The films you will be responsible for are Roots and Gangs of New York You will also be responsible for the film clips seen in class and also the political cartoons posted on Blackboard for the Irish The exam will consist of 58 Multiple Choice Matching Questions 1 5 points each 87 points total 13 Short Answer Listing Questions 1 point each 13 points total Total 100 points Please keep time in mind when completing the exam You may start in any section Examples of Questions Section I Multiple Choice 1 5 points each 1 An Ethnic Group or Ethnicity is defined as A A group of people who have a common language and or skin color B A biological fact of birth C A fixed concept based on the place of birth D A social group who share a common history experience and culture Answer is D Section II Short Answer Listing Question 1 point each Short Answer Example 1 A person who sells himself for a period of 5 7 years in return for passage to the British North American colonies Answer Indentured Servant spelled correctly Short answers will use KEY TERMS ONLY both from lecture and from readings see below You will be asked a question that you will have to list the answers This is not an essay you will not be explaining what you write you will just have the correct terms for the answers Listing Question Example Example 1 List three reasons discussed in class why the Age of Flexibility ended in 1680 1 Indentured Servants stopped coming 2 Tobacco started making money so 2nd and 3rd sons could afford slaves 3 Establishment of South Carolina Slave Code Key Terms Lecture 1 Introduction Lecture Race Nationality and Ethnicity The History of Immigration The Use of Film Definition of Race the assumption of differences based on real or imagined physical characteristics determined by other people Racism take physical characteristics and believe they are inferior than you Definition of Ethnic Group or Ethnicity a group of people that have something in common Nativism Dislike of someone different from you Definition of Nationality Where you were born THE OTHER Anyone different from those in power Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies Three Movements Waves of Immigration Formative Wave 1607 1830 during which Jews Italians Irish Germans came First Wave Irish Germans and Chinese came Second Wave Russians Jews Central Eastern Europeans came Assimilation Give up your past and accept the future Ideal Acculturation Adapt some new culture but keep some past culture Reality Un Assimilate able Those that are never able to fit in Anglo Conformity Complete assimilation into conforming to the English person Xenophobia Irrational fear of the other Cultural Pluralism Accepting of different groups The Use of Film in History Helped shape American values behavior Helped form self image Key cultural artifact that offers insight into culture and social history Lecture 2 Anglo Saxon Protestants or English WASP White Anglo Saxon Protestant Those that came during the formative wave not a homogeneous group Queen Elizabeth Primogeniture Second Third Sons Everything goes to the first son Jamestown 1607 When exploration began Indentured Servants Under contract for a fixed amount of time and after which they were free and able to own land New England 1620 Second Colony was founded Pilgrims Puritans Those that lived in the second colony didn t own land Formative Migration WASP Dominance Influence in five major areas 1 Language 2 Religion 3 Education 4 Political and Legal Institutions 5 Economic Institutions English Common Law aka the Constitution Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 Law was to restrict immigration Naturalization Act Extend the amount of time that an immigrant would have to reside in the US for citizenship Alien Enemies and Friends Acts President could deport anyone if their home countries were at war with USA Deportation exiling someone to their native land Majority and Minority Whoever isn t in control is considered a minority Lecture 3 AFRICANS West African Kingdoms Looked better than some European kingdoms Large and vast West African Urban Areas Cities Cosmopolitan modern had social classes important to speak different languages Trade done by woman Trans Saharan Trade large part of the culture West African Agricultural Areas Majority of African population farmers men protected property and women farmed Types of African Slaves Class vs Racial slavery Pan Africanism Right to Slave Slave Fort Krumen Shackels Pre Conceived Stereotypes about Africans 1 Blackness 2 Savagery 3 Sexuality 4 Heathenism 5 Animality Monotheism Islam Christianity Judaism Polytheism African Traditional Religions Naturalistic Androgynous Slave Auction Price of Slaves Seasoning Seasoner Branding Lecture 3 African African Americans in the Colonies and the United States Age of Flexibility South Carolina Slave Code Chattel Slavery Hierarchy of Plantation Owner Absentee Manager Overseer Drivers House Slaves Miscegenation Family Slavery Active vs Passive Resistance Putting one over on the master overseer slowing down Indigenous Culture Free Blacks Manumission African Americans Owning Slaves Sharecropping Extra Legal Organizations Ku Klux Klan Lynching Poll Tax Literacy Tests Grandfather Clause Jim Crow Laws Black Codes Segregation Great Migrations 1865 1950s Segregation Jim Crow Civil Rights Movement Lecture 4 History of African Americans in Film Minstrel Shows Old South and its Lost Cause Blackface Hearts and Flags 1911 Birth of a Nation 1915 Six African American Stereotypes in Film Uncle Tom Harriett Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin 1852 Mammy Gone with the Wind 1939 Aunt Jemima Sambo Coon The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman Black Brut or Buck or Mandingo Negro Jezebel Picaninny Race Films The Lincoln Motion Picture Company and Oscar Micheaux Bill Bojangles Robinson National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP Sidney Poitier
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