RACE: BLACK PEOPLE AND LARGER RACIAL MINORITIES

425 WD

Answer the following questions in 100 to 250 words each. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

* Throughout most of U.S. history, in most locations, what race has been in the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group?

White people have been the majority of the population. The common ancestral background of most of the members in this group are Europeans.

* What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group?

Whites and blacks are a larger race in us. Europeans are the common ancestral background of whites and African American common ancestral background was from the west. The whites became a significant minority group in the 1600’s and blacks became a significant minority group in the 1800’s

* In what ways have laws been used to enforce discrimination? Provide examples. These laws were intended against which racial minorities?

Laws have been enforcing discrimination by making sure that all races have the same opportunity at a job. This is the civil rights act and it was made so that blacks and other races could all have a fair chance at a job and could not be rejected because of their race. If a black person would try to get a job and not