Chapter 9

Question 1

Chattel slavery

Answer 1

One person owns another

Question 2

Child slavery

Answer 2

A more common form of bondage

Question 3

Debt bondage

Answer 3

Employers hold workers to pay debts

Question 4

Colonialism

Answer 4

Process by which some nations enrich themselves through political and economic control of other nations

Question 5

Neocolonialism

Answer 5

“New” form of global power relationships that involves not direct political control but economic exploitation by multinational corporations

Question 6

Las Colonias

Answer 6

America’s third world. 500,000 people with no sewer lines or running water, mainly latino, more than half are US citizens

Question 7

Modernization theory

Answer 7

Model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences between nations

Question 8

Dependency theory

Answer 8

Economic positions of rich and poor nations of the world are linked and cannot be understood apart from each other; Some nations became rich only because others became poor