AP Human Geography Unit 3 Chapter 7 Vocabulary

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Ethnicity
Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traits of a particular homeland or hearth.
Race
Identity with a group of people who share a biological trait.
Triangular Slave Trade
And efficient triangular trade pattern to transport slaves, materials, and finished goods.
Sharecropper
A person who works fields rented from a landowner, and pays landowner with a percentage of the crops.
Racism
Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities.
Racist
A person who subscribes to the belief of racism.
Blockbusting
Real estate agents buy homes from white at low prices in fear of blacks coming there, and sell them to blacks at higher prices.
Apartheid
Physical separation of races into different geographic areas.
Nationality
Identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country.
Self-determination
The concept that ethnicities have a right to govern themselves.
Nation-state
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that had been transformed into a nationality.
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nationality.
Centripetal Force
An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state.
Multi-ethnic States
A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
Multinational States
A country with 2 or more recognized nationalities.
Ethnic Cleansing
A process where a more powerful ethnic group removes a lesser one.
Balkanized
A small geographic area that cannot be made unto one country because of its many ethnicities there.
Balkanization
The process where a state breaks down into several new ones because of conflict between ethnicities.
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