Chapter Seven Vocabulary

Identify with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of heredity and cultural traditions is often referred to as...

• race

• ethnicity

• species

• class

Identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor is often called...

• species

• ethnicity

• race

• class

Belief that race is the primary factor in determining human traits and capacities and that some races are superior to others is often called...

• nativism

• imperialism

• xenophobia

• racism

The __________________________ involved European ships transporting enslaved Africans to the Caribbean primarily during the 1700s.

• Circle Slave Trade

• Colombian Slave Trade

• Triangular Slave Trade

• New World Slave Trade

A(n) ________________ was a person who worked fields rented from a landowners, paid rent, and repays loans by giving the landowner some of the crops.

• slave

• sharecropper

• land laborer

• migrant farm laborer

Blockbusting is...

• an old movie/game rental chain that is now out of business

• the practice of breaking cement from big pieces into little prices with a sledge-hammer

• real estate practice of tricking white people to sell their property cheap with racial fear mongering

• a party that takes up an entire block in NYC

South African laws, that are no longer in effect, that physically separated different races into different geographic areas are commonly referred to as...

• Jim Crow Laws

• Apartheid

• National Origins Act(s)

• Magna Carta

Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance because they were born in a specific place is commonly called...

• citizenship

• nationality

• ethnicity

• race

Nationalism is...

• loyalty of devotion to a particular nationality.

• strong nations exploiting weaker ones

• large banking institutes gaining political power

• territorial expansion of a state

Centripetal force is...

• how Captain America throws his shield so well.

• an attitude that tends to unify people and increase support for the state.

• the effect of the Earth's rotation on winds and currents.

• how a centipedes legs all move in the same direction.