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AP HG Ch 7 Vocab
ap hg ch 7 vocab rubenstein
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. |
| Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. |
| Balkanized | A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other. |
| Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the environment. |
| Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. |
| Ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcible removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region. |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. |
| Multi-ethnic state | State that contains more than one ethnicity. |
| Multinational state | State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities. |
| 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 particular nationality. |
| Nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there. |
| Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor. |
| Racism | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences product an inherent superiority of a particular race. |
| Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism. |
| Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. |
| Sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops. |
| Triangular slave trade | A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa. |