Unit 4

Question 1

What is Race?

Answer 1

Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor, distinguished by physical traits, blood types, etc.

Question 2

What is Ethnicity?

Answer 2

Identity with a group of people, tied to a place that share a common heredity and cultural tradition.

Question 3

What percentage of the U.S. population identifies as Hispanic (Latino)?

Answer 3

15%

Question 4

What percentage of the U.S. population identifies as African American?

Answer 4

13%

Question 5

What percentage of the U.S. population identifies as Asian American?

Answer 5

4%

Question 6

What percentage of the U.S. population identifies as American Indian?

Answer 6

1%

Question 7

Where do 90% of African Americans and Hispanics live?

Answer 7

In cities.

Question 8

What is Barrioization?

Answer 8

When the population of a neighborhood changes over largely to Hispanics.

Question 9

What is Intraregional Migration?

Answer 9

Migration within cities and metropolitan areas.

Question 10

What does ‘White Flight’ refer to?

Answer 10

The emigration of whites from areas in anticipation of Blacks moving into the area.

Question 11

What is Blockbusting?

Answer 11

Real estate agent convincing white residents of oncoming black families, buying cheap and selling to black families at a high price.

Question 12

What was the significance of Plessy vs. Ferguson (1898)?

Answer 12

Supreme Court decision allowing separate but equal.

Question 13

What did Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) declare?

Answer 13

Separate schools were unconstitutional.

Question 14

What is Nationality?

Answer 14

Identity of a group of people who share a legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.

Question 15

What are the four classifications of Apartheid in South Africa?

Answer 15

• White
• Black
• Asian
• Colored (Mulatto)

Question 16

What is a Nation?

Answer 16

People with shared cultural identity and common ethnicity.

Question 17

What is a State?

Answer 17

A politically organized unit that is sovereign or independent.

Question 18

What defines a Nation-State?

Answer 18

A territory that is occupied by a particular ethnicity.

Question 19

What is a Stateless Nation?

Answer 19

A nation without a state.

Question 20

What is Nationalism?

Answer 20

Loyalty and devotion to a nation.

Question 21

What is a Centripedal Force?

Answer 21

An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance the support of the state.

Question 22

What is a Centrifugal Force?

Answer 22

An attitude that tends to de-unify people, spreading away from the center.

Question 23

What is Balkanization?

Answer 23

The process by which a state breaks down through conflict among ethnicities.

Question 24

What is Ethnic Cleansing?

Answer 24

The process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful group from their territory.

Question 25

What are the three factors that have created the boundaries of states we see today?

Answer 25

* Latitude and Longitude lines * Natural features * Cultural factors (Language, religion, ethnicity)

Question 26

What is Colonialism?

Answer 26

The practice of establishing political dominance over a people for economic, political, and/or territorial gain.

Question 27

What are the three reasons for European colonization?

Answer 27

* Spread Christianity (God) * Gain natural resources (Gold) * Prestige of owning more land (Glory)

Question 28

What is the Heartland Theory?

Answer 28

Whoever owns Eastern Europe and Western Asia has the political power and capital to rule the world.

Question 29

What is the Rimland Theory?

Answer 29

Forming alliances is necessary to keep the Heartland in check.

Question 30

What are the five basic shapes of states?

Answer 30

* Compact States * Prorupted States * Elongated States * Fragmented States * Perforated States

Question 31

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 31

The closest the world came to WWIII during the Cold War.

Question 32

What does terrorism refer to?

Answer 32

The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.

Question 33

Who was responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks?

Answer 33

Al-Qaeda.

Question 34

What was the result of the U.S. attack on Afghanistan in 2001?

Answer 34

The U.S. attacked Afghanistan after finding Osama bin Laden hiding in Pakistan.

Question 35

Fill in the blank: The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government is known as _______.

Answer 35

[terrorism]