Chapter 7 Review

Question 1

Identify and describe the major ethnicities in the US

Answer 1

The three most numerous ethnicities are:

• Hispanics
• African Americans
• Asian Americans

Question 2

Describe the distribution of major US ethnicities among states and within urban areas

Answer 2

• Hispanics are clustered in SW, African Americans in the SE, and Asian Americans in the W
• African Americans and Hispanics are highly clustered in Urban areas, especially in inner-city neighborhoods

Question 3

Describe the patterns of forced and voluntary migration of African Americans, Hispanics Americans, and Asian Americans to the US

Answer 3

• Many African Americans trace their ancestry to forced migration from Africa for slavery
• Many Hispanics and Asian Americans trace their heritage to people who migrated in the late 20th century for economic prospects and political freedom

Question 4

Describe the patterns of migration of African Americans within the US

Answer 4

• African Americans migrated in large numbers from the S to the N and W in the early 20th century
• African Americans clustered in inner-city ghettos that have expanded in recent decades

Question 5

Explain the laws once used to segregate races in the US and S Africa

Answer 5

Segregation of races was legal in the US and S Africa until the late 20th century

Question 6

Explain the difference between ethnicity and nationality

Answer 6

Nationality is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country. Nationalism is loyalty and devotion to a nationality.

Question 7

Identify and describe the principal ethnicities in Lebanon and Sri Lanka

Answer 7

Ethnicities here have not been able to live in peace

Question 8

Describe how the Kurds, as well as the ethnicities in S Asia have been divided among more than one nationality

Answer 8

New borders were created and people of different ethnicities lived on both sides of the border.

Question 9

Identify and describe the principal ethnicities in W Asia

Answer 9

The lack of correspondence between the territory occupied by ethnicities and nationalities is especially severe in W Asia

Question 10

Describe the process of ethnic cleansing

Answer 10

1. Move military equipment into villages of no use
2. Round up people from the village
3. Force the people to leave the village
4. Destroy village by setting it on fire

Question 11

Explain the concept of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans

Answer 11

People were rounded up and killed if they were part of an ethnic minority

Question 12

Identify the principal episodes of genocide in NE Africa

Answer 12

Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia: Trying to convert people to Muslim

Question 13

Identify the principal episodes of genocide in central Africa

Answer 13

Genocide has been practiced in several places in Africa including Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the COngo