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Chapter 7 Rubenstein
AP Human Geography - Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Triangular Slave Trade | Efficient triangular trading pattern. |
Sharecropper | Works fields rented form a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. |
Racism | The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce and inherent superiority of a particular race. |
Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. |
Blockbusting | Real estate agents convince white homeowners to move out of their homes that are near a black neighborhood for fear of property values declining. |
Apartheid | Physical separation of different races into different geographic areas. |
Nationality | Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country. |
Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. |
Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. |
Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a nationality. |
Centripetal Force | The opposite of Centrifugal |
Multi-ethnic state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity. |
Multinational State | Contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree and coexist peacefully. |
Ethnic Cleansing | A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one. |
Balkanized | Widely used to describe a small geographic area that could not be successfully organized into one or more stable states. |
Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. |
Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular home land or hearth. |
Race | Identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor. |