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Chapter 7 Vocab
Vocab from Chapter 7 of AP Human Geography
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Geography
9th Grade
12/23/2011

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ethnicity
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identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions
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race
Definition
identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor
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Triangular Slave Trade
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a practice during the 18th century in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to the Caribbean, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa
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sharecropper
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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
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racism
Definition
belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
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racist
Definition
a person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism
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blockbusting
Definition
a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
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apartheid
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laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas
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nationality
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identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there
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self-determination
Definition
concept that ethnic groups have the 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 and has been transformed into a nationality
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nationalism
Definition
loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality
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centripetal force
Definition
an attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
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multi-ethnic state
Definition
state that contains more than one ethnicity
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multinational states
Definition
state that contains 2 or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
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ethnic cleansing
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the 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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balkanization
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process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
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balkanized
Definition
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, lond-standing antagonisms toward each other
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