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| What are the 2 largest minority ethnicities in the U.S.? |
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14% Hispannic
12% African-American |
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| In which part of the U.S. are most African-Americans clustered? |
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| In which part of the U.S. are most Hispanics clustered? |
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| What are the 3 major African-American migration flows in the U.S.? |
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1. Forced immigration from Africa to the colonies
2. Immigration from the U.S. South to northern cities
3. Immigration from inner-city ghettos to other urban neighborhoods |
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| Why did sharecropping decline in the early 20th century? |
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| farm machinery was introduced |
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| U.S. descendants of immigrants from east and central Europe identify themselves by __________ rather than nationality. |
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| Only __% of Greenland's residents are Danish, the rest are Inuit. |
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| Nationalism is a good example of ____________. |
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| When did the Soviet Union collapse? |
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| Ethnic Lithuanians comprise __% of Lithuania's population |
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| How many nationalities does Russia recognize? |
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| This group of Sunni Muslims want to gain independence from Russia, but Russia fought hard to prevent it. |
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| Armenians and Azers have been at war with each other since when? |
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| What are the 2 groups in Georgia that have been fighting each other? |
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| How many independent countries did the Soviet Union break up into? |
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| What are the 5 groups of countries that the Soviet Union broke up into? |
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| Baltic, European, Caucasus, Russia, Central Asian |
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| List the countries that the Soviet Union broke up into. |
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| Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan, Russia |
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| Why is Azerbaijan a good example of a fragmented state? |
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| It is split in two by a narrow strip of land belonging to Armenia. |
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| What is socialist realism? |
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| an art and writing style which emphasized Communist economic and political values |
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| What court case ended school segregation and led to "White Flight?" |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education 1950s |
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| Which court case created the Separate but Equal "Jim Crow" laws? |
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| Plessy vs. Ferguson 1890s |
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| When was the apartheid system repealed? |
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| When an ethnicity is split among >1 country or when multiple ethnicities live in the same country, ________ may result. |
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| After the British left, India was split into these 2 countries |
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| In 1971, East Pakistan became what country? |
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| What was the main consequence of Pakistan splitting from India? |
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| Forced migration of millions |
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| India and Pakistan have not agreed on which piece of land? |
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| Who governed Yugoslavia from 1953-1980? |
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| "Yugoslavia has 7 ______, 6 ______, 5 ______, 4 ______, 3 ______, 2 ______, and 1 ______. |
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| Neighbors, republics, nationalities, languages, religions, alphabets, dinar |
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| when did the fighting in Yugoslavia begin? |
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| What were the new countries formed from the former Yugoslavia? |
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| Bosnia and Herzegovinia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovinia, Serbia, Montenegro |
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| What ethnicity makes up the majority of Bosnia and Herzegovinia? |
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| Serbia launches campaign to control ______. |
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| Serbians ethnically cleansed ____________ Muslims. |
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