Week 11 - Race Names, the Census, "Race Mixing", and Transference of Intergenerational Wealth

U.S. Classification and Census History

100

In 1870, what Asian group in the U.S. was added to the U.S. census categories?

Chinese

200

The Office of of Management and Budget Directive 15, has specifically mentioned that the race categories are neither scientific nor ________.

Anthropological 

300

There was a fraction of person that was an enslaved African which was counted in the 1790 U.S. census. What is that fraction?

Three-Fifths

Racial Terminology and Concepts

100

There is a two-word term that describes the belief that white people should be at the top of the political, cultural, and social ladders due to their perceived superiority. What is the term?

White Supremacy

200

There was a German anatomist who used a skull that was found in the Caucasus Mountains. He named the classification group "Caucasian". What was his name?

Blumenbach

300

In the U.S., there was a traditional informal classification that said one drop of "N*gro" blood makes one a "N*gro". What rule was this?

One-drop rule

Historical Wealth and Discrimination in the U.S.

100

What practice that was determined by race, involve the Federal Housing Administration colour the most riskiest, and least desirable area on a map in red?

Redlining

200

What year in the 1900s did the Supreme Court rule the act of the state anti-miscegenation laws to be illegal?

1967

300

What bank established after the Civil War, was explicitly not a lending bank despite handling deposits from African Americans?

Freedman's Savings Bank

Canadian Identity and Data

100

According the to Canadian census tables, and the transcript excerpts, how often does the Canadian census happen?

Every Five Years

200

What categories were used in order to group individuals of mixed race, like those counted in the Canadian census about five years ago?

Multiple Visible Minorities

300

There is a specific two-word phrase that is an "irritating example" of a Canadian classification term which is used for non-white individuals, despite them constituting a demographic majority. What is it?

Visible Minority

Indigenous Economics and Land Rights in Canada

100

What is the name of the legal concept that is used by the Canadian government that refers to the legal termination of Aboriginal land rights usually through agreement or treaty?

Extinguishment

200

When the scrip system was first implemented, there was an initial land allotment value in acres which was granted to the Métis. How many acres were granted?

160 Acres

300

There are two types of scrip created by the federal government for Métis land rights and their extinguishment process. What are they?

Money Scrip & Land Scrip