Vocab Extra Cred 1

Question 1

Apartheid

Answer 1

Racial segregation,

Question 2

Antebellum

Answer 2

Referring to things that happened before the civil war.

Question 3

Commonplace

Answer 3

Commonly found or seen

Question 4

Eugenics

Answer 4

The practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the population’s genetic composition

Question 5

Pogrom

Answer 5

An organized massacre of helpless people

Question 6

Enclave

Answer 6

A distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory

Question 7

Probity

Answer 7

A noun that means - Having integrity, honesty and uprightness

Question 8

Temperance

Answer 8

Moderation in or abstinence from the use of alcoholic becerages

Question 9

Empire

Answer 9

A major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority

Question 10

Imperialism

Answer 10

The policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas.

Question 11

Scramble for Africa

Answer 11

European countries take up Africa essentially.

Question 12

Pragmatist/pragmatic

Answer 12

Practical

Practical as opposed to idealistic.

Concerned with practical

Question 13

Ethos

Answer 13

The distinguishing character sentiment or moral nature, guiding beliefs of an institution or person/group.

Question 14

Accomodationist

Answer 14

Someone who adapts to or compromises with an opposing view

Dissing

Question 17

Armistice

Answer 17

Postponing the conflict for later

Temporary stopping of open acts of warfare by agreement between the opponents