Ap Flashcards

13534007567	venture capitalists	Individuals or companies that invest in new businesses in exchange for partial ownership of those businesses.	0
13534007568	Deterritorialization	The movement of economic, social and cultural processes out of the hands of states.	1
13534007569	conspicuous consumption	Buying and using products because of the "statement" they make about social position	2
13534007570	Protectionism	Economic policy of shielding an economy from imports.	3
13534007571	Gallatin Plan	A plan, devised by Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1808, that attempted to parallel land and water trafficways along the Atlantic seaboard, establish connections between Atlantic streams and western waters, connect the Great Lakes system, and create a system of westward roads to the frontiers	4
13534007572	Christaller's Central Place Theory	A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.	5
13534156695	Bochert's Model of Urban Evolution	He refers to 5 different distinct periods of time each shows the particular transport technology in the creation and differential rates	6
13534156696	Sail-Wagon Epoch	Period of expansion with primitive overland and waterway circulation - leading cities northeastern ports heavily oriented to European overseas trade - Hinterlands barely accessible.	7
13534156697	Steamboat epoch	They used steamboats to travel upriver	8
13534156698	Automobile Epoch	1920+; Transport Channel: Cars, trucks	9