Terms I
The racist laws that segregated South Africans
A) secessionist.
B) apartheus.
C) apomatox.
D) apartheid.
E) states rights.
D) apartheid.
A war between ethnic groups, often as a result of ethnic nationalism. There have been lots of ethnic conflicts throughout the last century
A. Enclave
B. Exclave
C. Ethnic Conflict
D. European Union
C. Ethnic Conflict
4) The most populous ethnic group in the United States is
A) African Americans.
B) Asian Americans.
C) Latinos/Hispanics.
D) American Indians and Alaska Natives.
E) Austral-Asians.
C) Latinos/Hispanics.
5) The world's largest state is
A) China.
B) Canada.
C) Russia.
D) Alaska.
E) India.
C) Russia.
24) As part of the triangular slave trade system, ships bound for Europe carried
A) cloth and trinkets.
B) rum and molasses.
C) slaves.
D) gold and silver.
E) slaves and molasses.
B) rum and molasses.
Legally adding land area to a city in the United States, or legally adding land area to a country in the world
A. Annexation
B. Buffer State
C. Balkanization
D. Boundary Origin
A. Annexation
country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country.
A. Enclave
B. Exclave
C. Ethnic Conflict
D. European Union
A. Enclave
16) Which is the most dramatic change in the geographic distribution of African Americans in the United States?
A) rural to urban within the state
B) change to sharecropping
C) relocation to northern cities
D) movement out of inner-cities
E) relocation to coastal cities
C) relocation to northern cities
66) A state which places most power in the hands of a central government is a(n)
A) federal state.
B) anocratic state.
C) fragmented state.
D) unitary state.
E) compact state.
D) unitary state.
25) After World War II ended, millions of people were forced to migrate because of
A) Soviet repatriation of Gypsies and Jews.
B) counterattacks by the Allies.
C) German expansion.
D) the return of defeated German soldiers to their homes.
E) changes in the boundaries of states.
E) changes in the boundaries of states.
A small geographic area that could not be organized in to a larger state due to conflicting ethnicities
A. Annexation
B. Buffer State
C. Balkanization
D. Boundary Origin
C. Balkanization
a political and economic community of twety-seven member states with supranational and intergovernmental features, located in Europe
A. Enclave
B. Exclave
C. Ethnic Conflict
D. European Union
D. European Union
30) Which of the following does the United States Census Bureau not consider a race?
A) Japanese
B) Black
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) White
E) Samoan
C) Hispanic/Latino
6) The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort?
A) political
B) military
C) economic
D) cultural
E) environmental
A) political
34) The Brown v. Board of Education court decision ruled that
A) separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional.
B) "white flight" was morally wrong and should be curtailed.
C) discriminatory lending practices and restrictive covenants were unconstitutional.
D) separate facilities for blacks and whites were acceptable so long as they were of the same
quality.
E) separate schools for blacks and whites were constitutional but separate drinking fountains
were unconstitutional.
E) separate schools for blacks and whites were constitutional but separate drinking fountains
were unconstitutional.
a state created between two warring or hostile regions to ease tensions between the two bordering regions.
A. Annexation
B. Buffer State
C. Balkanization
D. Boundary Origin
B. Buffer State
Portion of a state that is completely surrounded by another state. This is significant because conflict may arise in this region of a state.
A. Enclave
B. Exclave
C. Ethnic Conflict
D. European Union
B. Exclave
52) When a U.S. politician attempts to appeal to the widest number of voters, she or he probably
appeals to concepts of shared
A) nationality.
B) chauvinism.
C) ethnicity.
D) race.
E) gender.
A) nationality.
81) The two Germanys
A) existed separately from 1949 to 1990.
B) are the newest UN member states in Europe.
C) were divided by proto-Germanic languages.
D) are on opposite banks of the Rhine River.
E) were divided by economic and cultural boundaries until 1871.
A) existed separately from 1949 to 1990.
44) Before its breakup the Soviet Union was the largest ________ state.
A) multinational
B) national
C) "states rights"
D) multiethnic
E) rightwing fascist
A) multinational