Question: When were the last slaves freed in New York state?
Answer: The last slaves in New York were not freed until 1827.

Question: When did the number of free people of color begin to increase in the North and South?
Answer: After the American Revolutionary War

Question: Who implored slaveholders to free their slaves?
Answer: Quaker and Methodist preachers in the South urged slaveholders to free their slaves

Question: What caused many slaveholder to free their slaves?
Answer: Revolutionary ideals led many men to free their slaves

Question: How much did the percentage of free people in the South change from 1782 to 1810?
Answer: the percentage of free people of color rose from less than one percent to nearly 10 percent of blacks in the South.

Question: What is it called when it takes several years for slaves to be freed in a program?
Answer: gradual emancipation

Question: The last slave in New York was freed when?
Answer: 1827

Question: What caused Quaker and Methodist preachers to want to free slaves?
Answer: Second Great Awakening

Question: In 1810, how many black people were considered free?
Answer: nearly 10 percent

Question: What caused many men to free slaves from 1782 to 1810?
Answer: Revolutionary ideals

Question: What is the one-drop rule?
Answer: defining as black, persons with any known African ancestry

Question: What did some courts call the one-drop rule?
Answer: "the traceable amount rule."

Question: What is a hypodesecnt rule?
Answer: meaning that racially mixed persons were assigned the status of the socially subordinate group

Question: When was the one-drop rule in effect?
Answer: in the early 20th century

Question: What is the one-drop rule?
Answer: black, persons with any known African ancestry.

Question: What is the hypodescent rule?
Answer: racially mixed persons were assigned the status of the socially subordinate group.

Question: Why were laws like the one drop rule enacted?
Answer: In their attempt to ensure white supremacy decades after emancipation

Question: What made the one drop rule stricter than rules in the 19th century?
Answer: it ignored the many mixed families in the state and went against commonly accepted social rules of judging a person by appearance and association.

Question: In the early 1900s, what was did black mean in southern states?
Answer: persons with any known African ancestry

Question: Prior to the 1900s, what was the socially accepted rule for racial interpretation?
Answer: judging a person by appearance and association.

Question: What rule means multiracial people are given status of the socially subordinate group?
Answer: a hypodescent rule

Question: What was the rule used in law in the 1900s called?
Answer: the one-drop rule

Question: What was the rule in the 1800s called?
Answer: the traceable amount rule

Question: Approximentally how many Americans identified themselves as multiracial in the 2010 US census?
Answer: In the 2010 US census, approximately 9 million individuals, or 2.9% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

Question: Why did muticultural Americans hid their heritage?
Answer: many people hid their multiracial heritage because of racial discrimination against minorities

Question: Before the mid-20th century were people open about their muticultural heritage and why or why not?
Answer: Prior to the mid-20th century, many people hid their multiracial heritage because of racial discrimination against minorities.

Question: Are all muticultural Americans aware of their cultural heritage?
Answer: While many Americans may be biologically multiracial, they often do not know it

Question: What is the accepted definition of "multicultural" ancestry?
Answer: Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of "two or more races"

Question: What is the accepted definition of "multicultural" ancestry?
Answer: Multiracial Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of "two or more races".

Question: Why did muticultural Americans hid their heritage?
Answer: Prior to the mid-20th century, many people hid their multiracial heritage because of racial discrimination against minorities

Question: Which cultural do multicultural people usually identify with?
Answer: , generally that of the culture in which they were raised.

Question: Are all multicultural Americans aware of their heritage?
Answer: While many Americans may be biologically multiracial, they often do not know it

Question: What does it mean to be a mutliracial?
Answer: mixed ancestry of "two or more races"

Question: How many multiracial people in the US were there in 2010?
Answer: approximately 9 million individuals

Question: When did people stop hiding mutliracial heritage?
Answer: the mid-20th century

Question: What are people most likely to identify themselves as?
Answer: the culture in which they were raised

Question: Would DNA show a higher number or lower number of mutliracial people than those reported in the census?
Answer: higher number

Question: What does it mean to be a mutliracial?
Answer: two or more races

Question: What occured from 1955 to 1968?
Answer: The African-American Civil Rights Movement

Question: How much of the population identified as mixed race in the 2000s?
Answer: less than 5%

Question: What is race sometimes seen as?
Answer: a social construct

Question: Who are descendents of various culturally distinct groups?
Answer: The American people

Question: What does affect recent identification in many cases?
Answer: mixed racial ancestry

Question: Who were considered "white Indians"?
Answer: Europeans living among Indigenous Americans

Question: Who had Indigenous "Country wives"?
Answer: Some traders

Question: Who lived in native communities, speaking the language and participating in the affairs of tribes?
Answer: "white Indians"

Question: Why were some multiracial children sent to Europe?
Answer: for their education

Question: Where were legal wives usually kept?
Answer: in the city

Question: When could white women and black men be in a union?
Answer: In the colonial years

Question: Where did 80% of free people of color in NC come from?
Answer: Virginia in colonial years

Question: What is Paul Heinegg?
Answer: scholar

Question: What censuses did he study?
Answer: from 1790–1810

Question: Who were not identified by name on the census before the civil war?
Answer: slaves

Question: Who was Thomas Jefferson in a relationship with?
Answer: Sally Hemings

Question: Not recognizing white fatherhood for multiracial slave children cause what to be lost?
Answer: paternity

Question: Who will not reveal full ancestral data to mixed race people?
Answer: elder family members

Question: Who brought Christian missionaries to Hawaii?
Answer: traders

Question: What cause royal Hawaiian females to find themselves ugly?
Answer: the Anglo-Saxon presence

Question: What are some examples of how a noble person should look before Christians came?
Answer: dark skin and ample bodies

Question: What did westerners call the women of Hawaii?
Answer: Hawaiian squaws

Question: When would white men marry the paler and thinner Hawaiian ladies?
Answer: By the last half of the 19th century

Question: Who are blamed in this paragraph for Jim Crow laws?
Answer: white Democrats

Question: When did Virginia add the one drop rule to their laws?
Answer: 1924

Question: Why were laws limiting people of color passed?
Answer: to restore white supremacy

Question: What had popularity in the early 20th century that caused rising racial discrimination?
Answer: eugenics and ideas of racial purity

Question: What fact was ignored by enacting one-drop rule laws?
Answer: that many whites had multiracial ancestry.

Question: A person is not a member of a racial minority if ancetry does not what?
Answer: exceed one-fourth

Question: Who are consdered to have the most physical differences?
Answer: African blacks and whites