AP Flashcards

12320677215	multinational state	State that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.	0
12320700744	nationality	Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.	1
12320709177	nationalism	A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country	2
12320722964	multi-ethnic state	A state that contains more than one ethnicity	3
12427002135	Sharecropper	A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.	4
12427004612	centripetal force	An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state	5
12427008667	Apartheid	Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.	6
12427011587	Self-determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves	7
12427013985	Triangular Slave Trade	A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.	8
12427019320	race	Identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.	9
12427021778	Balkanization	Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities	10
12427030379	Blockbusting	A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood	11
12427032706	Ethnicity	Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.	12
12427034733	ethnic cleansing	Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region	13
12427034734	racist	A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.	14
12427045749	nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality	15
12427045750	Racism	Belief that one race is superior to another	16
12427050397	Self-determination	Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves	17