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American Ethnic Studies 150 Midterm
Autumn 2021
This exam constitutes 25 percent of your final grade.
Think about what is being asked, organize your thoughts, and make your
answers as clear and concise as possible.
While it is open-notes, open-book, you will be graded on how well you address the
questions and effectively integrate the material presented in lectures, films, and readings.
USE CAN EITHER USE THIS FORM TO FILL
OUT ANSWERS OR YOU CAN USE THE PDF OR A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER.
BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE EXAM.
The exam is due by 2:30pm as a PDF to Prof. So, ccso@uw.edu.
If you have questions, please call or text Dr. So at 206-234-6859.
Part 1.
Fill-in Answers (2 points each = 40 points)
1.
Name the first Western ship that deliberately brought Africans to North America.
ANSWER:
2.
Son of Massasoit and brother to Wamsutta, was crowned as King Philip by the New Englanders. ANSWER:
3.
Which Shakespearean play was used by Takaki as a representation of English attitude toward non-Anglos (i.e., Native
Americans, Irish, Africans, Pacific Islanders)?
ANSWER:
4.
From Takaki and according to many modern historians, which European group was the first to land in North America?
ANSWER:
5.
Stanford historian who popularized notion that ethnocentrism beget “chattel slavery” in the United States.
ANSWER:
6.
While Western historians celebrate Ferdinand Magellan as the first man to circumnavigate the world, there is evidence of
others preceding him.
Name one of the seafarers that arguably sailed around the world before Magellan.
ANSWER:
7.
After running away from his indentured servitude, became first man enslaved in the American colonies. ANSWER:
8.
Name the insurgent movement that began because of a tax on whiskey. ANSWER:
9.
What are three categories/types of “symbolic explanations” for prejudice? (no need to explain them)
ANSWER:
10.
Ottawa Chief who, in 1763, created a proclamation to keep English east of the Adirondacks.
His goal was to bring French
back to the Americas. ANSWER:
11.
Provide one reason to explain why Takaki called his book,
A Different Mirror
.
ANSWER:
12.
Name the famed African American man of vaudeville who became the first Black man to have a leading role in an American
film and
was forced to put on “blackface.”
ANSWER:
13.
With regards to Europeans and religion, name the spiritual, political, and legal justification for colonization and seizure of
land not inhabited by Christians in the 15
th
century.
ANSWER:
14.
A former indentured servant, he became
the first “slaveowner”
in Virginia.
ANSWER:
15.
Series of violent attacks by lay people, angry about debt, on courthouses and other government properties in
Massachusetts that began in 1786 and led to a dramatic military confrontation in 1787. ANSWER:
16.
Whose lectures and writings popularized the notion that
the smallpox was a “puritan destiny”?
ANSWER:
17.
Who were the two men that Pocahontas married?
ANSWER:
18.
Mighty Native American group whose confederacy inspired the structure of the U.S. government. ANSWER:
19.
The United States created this “instrument” to subdue insubordinate
enslaved Africans, without leaving as much trace of
punishment.
ANSWER:
20.
From the 1790 Naturalization Law, what are 3 requirements to become a US citizen?
ANSWER:
Part II:
Essay Question.
Answer
ONE
of the following essay questions (10 points).
21.
Using 2 examples from AES 150 course material, explain why stereotypes are not based on fact and are not positive.
22.
In the critique of acculturation, there was a debate between what is appropriation v. appreciation.
Define and provide an
example of each.
Part III:
Fill-in
Short Answer
. (2 points each; total of 40 points).
23.
Largely self-educated in astronomy and mathematics, he was later called upon to assist in the surveying of territory for the
construction of the nation's capital. ANSWER:
24.
Harvard historian(s) who popularized the notion that exploitation beget
“chattel slavery” in the United States.
ANSWER:
25.
Name the first Indigenous people Columbus encountered. ANSWER:
26.
What are four demographic
traits of the “mythic norm”
?
[Hint:
What is it comprised of.] ANSWER:
27.
This Black stereotype depicts Black women as angry, hateful, overbearing, especially toward own family. ANSWER:
28.
Who wrote
Common Sense
?
ANSWER:
29.
According to Frantz Fanon, what is meant by the term
“first world”?
ANSWER:
30.
Year of the first large, permanent settlement of Africans in North America? ANSWER:
31.
Term given by the landed elites to the fear of armed, discontented class of indentured servants, slaves, and landless
freemen. ANSWER:
32.
The development of this crop for exportation to England was a major contributor to the hostility between the English and
Powhatans. ANSWER:
33.
The first enslaved Africans to the “New World” came from what current
-day African country?
ANSWER:
34.
Formerly enslaved, this person became the first African American poet and had to prove authorship by undergoing an oral
exam. ANSWER:
35.
Name
the founder of the “Puritan” sect
.
ANSWER:
36.
Half-
sister to Martha Jefferson; “lover” to Thomas Jefferson.
ANSWER:
37.
Which English Christian group were “separatists”?
ANSWER:
38.
Wh
o was the ‘mercenary” that brought forth
the first settlement of Anglos to what becomes the United States?
ANSWER:
39.
According to Dr. Samuel Cartwright, name a disease “particular” to African Americans.
ANSWER:
40.
In what American city/town were fossils of a man discovered which led to a court fight to determine whether Native
Americans were related to “whites” or “Asians”/Malayo
-Polynesians? ANSWER:
41.
Name the African country created through the efforts of James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay.
ANSWER:
42.
Name of
Andrew Jackson’s
“plantation.”
ANSWER:
Part IV:
Essay Question.
Answer
ONE
of the following essay questions
–
note that
question 38 includes a, b, & c
,
question 39
includes sections a&b
(10 points).
43.
With regards to the Melting Pot theory, many social scientists have made the point that it is equivalent to the
“Assimilation” theory
.
Explain this by performing the following:
a.
Explain what is meant by Melting pot theory (if you use a graph/notation, must briefly explain it);
b.
Explain what is meant by Assimilation theory (if you use a graph/notation, must briefly explain it);
c.
Finally, explain why the two appear to be
“the same” in practice.
44.
Slavery has been called one of the most tragic events in American history.
With this in mind, perform the following:
a.
Provide at least three
justifications the South used to defend slavery, their “peculiar institution.”
ANSWER:
b.
Provide at least three rebuttals from the North to the Southern defense of slavery.
ANSWER:
PLEASE SAVE YOUR EXAM AS A PDF AND RETURN IT BY EMAIL TO DR. SO,
ccso@uw.edu
, by
2:20PM.
BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON THE EXAM
.
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