AP Human Geography Key Issue #2 (Chap. 7) – Flashcards

What is the title of this Key Issue?

Most African Americans in the Western Hemisphere are descendants of who?

Most Asian Americans and Hispanics are descendants of who?

______________ is a system whereby one person owns another person as a piece of property and can force that person to work for the owner's benefit.

Where in the American colonies were the first Africans brought?

Where, 2,000 years ago, was slavery widespread?

In the middle ages what was slavery replaced with?

____________ is a system where laborers working the land were bound to the land and not free to migrate elsewhere.

*True or False?* Europeans were responsible for diffusing the practice of slavery to the western hemisphere.

Between what years was the slave trade at its highest? About how many Africans were uprooted from their homes during this time?

When did the forced migration of slaves begin?

An efficient triangular trading pattern.

Who did the slave traders typically seize?

Approximately ____________ of the slaves died during the the journey cross the Atlantic.

Where in the U.S. were the large plantations in need of labor located? What did these plantations typically produce?

What war was fought to prevent the 11 pro-slavery Southern states from seceding from the Union?

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do and when was it enacted?

Which Amendment to the constitution was made to outlaw slavery?

When did the rapid growth of Hispanics in the U.S. begin? What two countries fueled most of the immigration?

What people group make up largest share of Asian American immigrants?

What are the other leading Asian people groups immigrating to the U.S.?

What is the interregional migration pattern of African Americans in the U.S.? (During the first half of the 20th century)

What is the intraregional migration pattern of African Americans in the U.S.? (During the second half of the 20th century)

Where were African Americans concentrated in at the end of the Civil War?

A ______________ works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.

*True or False?* The sharecropper system helped poor African Americans to get on their feet.

What Route(s) did African Americans take when traveling through the east coast?

What Route(s) did African Americans take when traveling through East Central U.S.?

What Route(s) did African Americans take when traveling through West Central U.S.?

What Route(s) did African Americans take when traveling through Southwest U.S.?

What happened when African American immigrants reached the big cities?

*True or False?* Because of the shortage of housing in the ghettos, families were forced to live in one room.

Expansion of the ghetto typically followed major __________ that radiated out from the ________ of the city.

What made the expansion of the black ghettos possible?

This is the emigration of whites from an area in anticipation of blacks immigrating into the area.

What was "white flight" encouraged by?

This was a real estate practice that encouraged "white flight" where real estate agents convinced white home owners to sell their houses cheaply and then selling the same houses to the African Americans at a much higher price.

What program wrote in 1968 that U.S. cities were divided into two separate and unequal societies, one black and one white?

Why, in 1896, did the U.S. Supreme Court uphold a Louisiana law that required black passengers to ride in separate railway cars?

Once the Supreme Court permitted "separate but equal" treatment of the races, southern states enacted a comprehensive set of laws to segregate blacks from whites as much as possible. What were these laws called?

Segregation laws, called "Jim Crow" laws, were named after what?

When were U.S. segregation laws eliminated?

What are the two major museums that demonstrate the challenges of integrating ethnicities in the U.S.?

When did discrimination by race reach its peak?

_____________ was the physical separation of different races into different geographic areas.

In South Africa, under apartheid, a newborn baby was classified as being one of what four races?

Who created the apartheid system?

What did the South African government do to ensure the geographic isolation of different races?

What was the principal anti-apartheid organization? Who was it's leader? How long was he imprisoned?

What year was Mandela overwhelming elected to be South Africa's first black president?