Race & Ethnicity Test #2 Practice Test Fill In Key Terms and Facts 1. ___________________ were when whites dressed up and acted like black people. 2. The Old South and its “_______________________” was a minstrel show about African Americans on a plantation which posed a fake reality and showed happy slaves. 3. When whites painted themselves as blacks, they had a _________________. 4. The Irish stereotype of __________________ depicted a black character who will stand up for their master. He is an older, grandfather, non-sexual figure. 5. The first black woman to win the best actor category who also outlawed miscegenation was _______________________. 6. ______________________ was one of the best black directors. 7. When African Americans took stereotypes and turned them into a joke, it was referred to as ___________________.8. The Irish stereotype of ________________ is usually a house slave who loves her master, non-sexual figure.9. The new stereotype of ____________________ celebrates the violent/savage side. (ex: Malcolm X) 10. ___________________ sent the Scots to take over control of Ireland. This was referred to as the______________ of Ireland.11. The new stereotype of ____________________ shows African Americans somehow involved with drug culture. (Evil is the same as blackness) 12. ______________ established a plantation system that basically enslaves the Irish. 13. The _________________ was a series of plantations in Ireland. The land was taken away from the Irish by the Scots. 14. The _____________ were paid by James I to take over land, after they took over the land the land then became theirs. Took over nearly all of the land in Ireland. 15. _________________ were referred to as slaves because they were forced to work on land that used to be theirs. (Similar to sharecropping, leads to cycle of poverty). 16. The new stereotype of ____________________ shows African Americans as fat, living off the government (white man) and going after someone with money.17. ______________ were areas where WASPs don’t want to live which in turn becomes a poor place. 18. The laws that stated what the Irish can and cannot do in their own country which stated that they could not practice Catholicism and got no education were called _______________________.19. When a country cannot support its people, it is referred to as ________________. This occurred in Ireland while the English were in charge. 20. The ______________, also referred to as the Scots-Irish were the first “Irish” to come to the new world. 21. When the Ulster Scots started to treat the Irish better than the English would, they were referred to as “__________________”. 22. The __________________ is where the Ulster Scots settled.23. The new stereotype of ____________________ shows African Americans as angry, independent black women. 24. The Irish stereotype of _________________ is the “stereotypical black man”, always seen eating fried chicken or watermelon. 25. The only pre-conceived stereotype of the Ulster-Scots is ________________. It states that they use family/clan system for protection. 26. The Ulster-Scots are stereotyped as ______________________ because they live in wooden houses, no permanent churches, and parents teach the children what they want to know. 27. The Ulster-Scots are stereotyped as _______________________ because they drink in public and because they brought the public drinking culture with them. 28. The religion that the Ulster-Scots practiced ______________________. Not protestant, but not catholic either. 29. The _________________________ was caused by the Potato Blight of the 1840s and caused the Irish to have no food. 30. The Irish stereotype of _________________ is obsessed with black women and portrays a very sexual character who lusts for women, often depicted groaning. 31. The Irish stereotype of _______________ uses her sexuality to her benefit towards white men. 32. This caused the potato famine. It was a disease that invades all potatoes in Europe causing them to rot from the inside: ______________________________.33. The ________________________ caused one/eight of a population to die. Everyone else was starving.34. The _________________________ was when the Irish came over on the same boats as the Africans and were housed in the steerage class for a month and a half.35. The Irish and African Americans became in debt to the captain because they needed ___________. 36. The English called this an “act of god”: _______________________. 37. The Irish used the _____________________ as shelter. It was a piece of material which they would find off the streets and lean against a building. It didn’t cost anything but was extremely unsafe. 38. _______________ was tuberculosis that passengers on coffin ships contracted which affected almost everyone on the boat. 39. __________________ was the process which transported Anchor Immigrants is a process to get poor individuals to a new country. The villages pooled all their money together and chose the best candidate to move over. (Single, young, usually knows English). 40. Cheap housing for the Irish built by the WASPS was referred to as _________________.41. The WASPS wanted everyone in America to be ______________. (Religion) 42. The Irish practiced ________________. (Religion) 43. __________________ were places where groups of immigrants would settle together. 44. __________________ was the ethnic enclave located in NYC. The Irish were some of the first immigrants there. They formed ghettos.45. __________________ was the ethnic enclave located in Boston. The Irish were some of the first immigrants there.46. When America decided to “re pledge themselves to god”, this movement was referred to as the __________________.47. The Catholic belief that the bread and wine of communion is actually turned into the body and blood of Jesus Christ ________________. 48. WASPS believed that they were the “__________________________” which allowed them to determine who can become an American citizen. 49. The WASPS called the Irish ____________________ because they thought that they were killing the babies in the tenements so that they could use their bodies for communion. 50. The Trans-Continental Railroad goes through the ____________________ which makes it extremely dangerous.51. For every five feet in the railroad there was a __________ where an Irish man was buried. 52. WASPS called the Irish ____________________ because they
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