AP Human Geography Unit 3 Chapter 7 Vocabulary – Flashcards
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Ethnicity
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Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traits of a particular homeland or hearth.
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Race
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Identity with a group of people who share a biological trait.
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Triangular Slave Trade
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And efficient triangular trade pattern to transport slaves, materials, and finished goods.
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Sharecropper
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A person who works fields rented from a landowner, and pays landowner with a percentage of the crops.
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Racism
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Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities.
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Racist
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A person who subscribes to the belief of racism.
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Blockbusting
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Real estate agents buy homes from white at low prices in fear of blacks coming there, and sell them to blacks at higher prices.
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Apartheid
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Physical separation of races into different geographic areas.
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Nationality
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Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.
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Self-determination
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The concept that ethnicities have a right to govern themselves.
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Nation-state
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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that had been transformed into a nationality.
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Nationalism
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Loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
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Centripetal Force
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An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state.
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Multi-ethnic States
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A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
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Multinational States
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A country with 2 or more recognized nationalities.
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Ethnic Cleansing
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A process where a more powerful ethnic group removes a lesser one.
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Balkanized
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A small geographic area that cannot be made unto one country because of its many ethnicities there.
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Balkanization
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The process where a state breaks down into several new ones because of conflict between ethnicities.
