AP African American Studies Unit 3

Human Geography AP

Unit 3 Chapter 7

Ethnicity Review

Topics to Know

• Race vs. Ethnicity

• Ethnic Distribution

• Types of Migration

• Nationalities

• Racial Segregation

• Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

• Balkanization

Race vs. Ethnicity

Multiple Choice

A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and other cultural traits.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

• Ghetto

Multiple Choice

A form of prejudice that assumes superiority of one racial group over other groups.

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Ethnicity

Multiple Choice

A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance. It is created by people in society.

• Race

• Ethnicity

• Minorities

• Prejudice

Multiple Choice

Race is based on _____________ characteristics, while Ethnicity is based on ____________ characteristics

• cultural, physical

• physical, cultural

• achieved, ascribed

• citizenship, cultural

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of race?

• Racial categories are biologically determined.

• Some races have natural advantages over others.

• Racial differences play a significant role in genetics.

• There is no scientific or genetic evidence for distinct human races.

Multiple Choice

The concept of "Race" is a social construct.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The idea that one's own culture is better than other cultures is _______________.

• ethnocentrism

• discrimination

• prejudice

• racism

Ethnic Distribution

Multiple Choice

Which is not one of the most numerous U.S. ethnicities?

• European American

• Asian American

• African American

• Hispanic American

Multiple Choice

Asian Americans are predominantly found in what region of the United States?

• East

• West

• South

• North

Multiple Choice

Hispanics Tend To Cluster In The

• Great Plains

• Southwest

• Southeast

• Alaska

Multiple Choice

African Americans Tend To Cluster In The

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Alaska

• Hawaii

Multiple Choice

This process, done every 10 years, re-assesses the demographic make-up of the United States.

• Immigration

• Poll

• Census

• Data Report

Types of Migration

Multiple Choice

A cluster in one neighborhood is called...

• a ghetto

• a city

• an agglomeration

• a town

Multiple Choice

Most people immigrate to the United States because of...

• Religious freedom

• Job

• Family

• Land

Multiple Choice

Many African Americans after the Civil War stayed in the South and became ___.

• Members of the Baptist Church

• Authors of Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecroppers

• Indentured Servants

Multiple Select

What are the 3 major migration flows that have shaped the African-American distribution within the US?

• Slave Trade during 18th Century to American Colonies

• Great Migration; from US South to northern cities

• Immigration back to Africa

• immigration from city ghettos to other urban neighborhoods in the late 20th century

Multiple Choice

The international migration of Africans to the New World was referred to as the ____.

• Exodus

• Slave Trade

• Triangular Slave Trade

• Mass Migration

Multiple Choice

Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Armenia are all examples of

• Ethnic Enclaves

• Ethnic Systems

• Ethnic Cities

• Ethnic Minorities