AP Human Geography Chapter 7 Key Issue 1 Vocab – Flashcards
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Identity with a group of people who share the same cultural traditions
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Ethnicity
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Identify with a group of people who share a biological ancestor
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Race
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An efficient triangular trading pattern between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
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Triangular slave trade
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Works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops
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Sharecropper
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The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produces an inherent superiority of a particular race
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Racism
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One who subscribes to the belief of racism
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Racist
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When real estate agents convinced the white homeowners living near a black area to sell their homes at low prices
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Blockbusting
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Physical separation of different races into different geographic areas in South Africa
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Apartheid
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Identify with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country
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Nationality
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The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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Self-determination
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A small geographic area that can not be successfully organized into one or more stable states because it is inhabited by ethnicities who hate each other
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Balkanized
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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
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Nation-State
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Loyalty and devotion to a nationality
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Nationalism
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An attitude that trends to unify people and enhance support for a state
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Centripetal force
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A state with more than one ethnicity
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Multi-ethnic state
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Contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinctive nationalities
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Multinational state
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A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region
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Ethnic cleansing
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The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
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Balkanization
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Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice
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Discrimination
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Term derived from areas in cities where only Jews lived, it noe used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure
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Ghetto
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Laws passed, usually in the American south and called "Jim Crow", pertaining to s racial policy by which blacks may be segregated if granted equal opportunities and facilities, as for education, transportation, or jobs. Now considered unconstitutional
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Separate but equal
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After separate but equal laws were designated to be unconstitutional, whites left neighborhoods where they believed blacks would now move into
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White flight
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As part of apartheid, 10 regions in South Africa where every black was suppose to be a citizen even if they didn't live there
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Homelands
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Separate but equal
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Desegregation of the public schools
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Brown vs. Board of Education
