midterm

Question 1

NAFTA (what is it, what countries are involved)

Answer 1

Ask Kay

Question 2

The indigenous group that lived in the Los Angeles area before us

Answer 2

Tongva tribe

Question 3

The Columbian exchange

Answer 3

Describes the complex and multi-faceted chain of ecological exchanges and other impacts that began with Columbus’ 1492 landfall
from historian Alfred Crosby (1972)

Question 4

Pristine Myth

Answer 4

The idea that land was not changed by the Native Americans because there were not that many and the land was pure and clean and beautiful

Question 5

the ways that Native Americans actually used and modified the land

Answer 5

Creating and managing forests and fields
• Fire
• Rotational agriculture
• Tree and root clearing
• Cultivation of beneficial species – nuts (walnut, chestnut, butternut, hickory
nut, pecan); fruit-bearing species (grapes, plums, crab apples); medicinal plants like smooth alder

Question 6

Major differences between colonial and Native understandings of property

Answer 6

ask Kay

Question 7

Possible ways of defining North America

Answer 7

Ask Kay

Question 8

Types of colonialism

Answer 8

Metropole (or Exploitation) Colonialism
• Plantation Colonialism
• Settler Colonialism

Question 9

colonialism

Answer 9

A practice of domination which involves the subjugation of one people to another

Question 10

imperialism

Answer 10

Ability of one country to exercise power over another, whether through settlement, sovereignty, or indirect mechanisms of control

Question 11

metropole

Answer 11

Metropole (mother land) claims sovereignty over the colony

• Focuses on access to labor and resources for export • Key role of colonial administrators

Question 12

plantation colonialism

Answer 12

• Hybrid system which focuses on the intensive use of the land and exploitation of labor
• Often rely on slave labor

Question 13

Settler Colonialism

Answer 13

• Focuses on land, not labor
• Involves large-scale immigration
• Often motivated by religious, political, or economic motives

Question 14

White Man’s Burden, particularly how it links up to the reading on Indian boarding schools

Answer 14

By Rudyard Kipling
Because Native Americans are uneducated and unable to fall into white civilization, it is the burden of white people to teach native americans how to behave in harsh ways. involved the boarding schools with the mean nuns

Question 15

Primitive accumulation - what is it, whose idea is it

Answer 15

created by Marx and explained how a feudalistic society changes to a capitalistic society.

Question 16

Blood quantum requirements - what are they?

Answer 16

Blood Quantum: percentage of Native American blood that would allow people into the tribe; varies between 1/16-1/2
Very different from the “one-drop” idea

Question 17

Continents as one type of metageography

Answer 17

the set of spatial structures through which people order their knowledge of the world
continents are the foundation of meta geography

Question 18

Problems with using the nation-state as a scale/unit of analysis

Answer 18

Since states are still considered primary units of study, world regional configurations are almost never allowed to violate their borders
There are nations that share cultural ties with another area but do not have their own state

Question 19

Strabo and the origin of regional geography

Answer 19

Origins begin with greek geographer Strabo
Lived in the Roman Empire
“Geographers want to describe parts of the Earth”–Strabo
Wrote a book called geographica and described the world as he knew it

Question 20

the geographical imagination, particularly how it links up to travel stories like Travels with Charley

Answer 20

Parallel to the sociological imagination
“relationship between the personal experience and a wider society”
The way Iraqis were portrayed during the war on terror

Question 21

Metis people

Answer 21

Came as a result of settlers and aboriginal people doing the do
This group is a distinct group of aboriginal people
Have a lot of pride going towards the settlers of canada
largest aboriginal group in canada

Question 22

basic details about the three types of land surveying we’ve encountered (metes and bounds, long lot system, township and range system)

Answer 22

look at notes

Question 23

why import tariffs were important in Canada’s history

Answer 23

McDonald made tariffs important for trading

Question 24

Four sectors of regional economies, transition from industrial to post-industrial economies

Answer 24

Primary – agriculture and extractive industries

Secondary – manufacturing and industry

Tertiary – service and distribution

Quaternary – management, tech, and knowledge-based industries

Question 25

urban entrepreneurialism

Answer 25

Comes from David harvey
Cities competing to attract business
A big deal about how countries attract business over time

Question 26

Levittown

Answer 26

Came with appliances and modern front yards
Supposed to embody American Dream
Levitts found a way to build homes in mass for cheap
Applied automobile industry
Described as the general motors of the US home industry
Wealthy people used to live in the suburbs
Until Levitts changed the housing industry
Exurbs: areas that are a cross between suburban and rural
Exclusive to white WW2 veterans and their families
Cost around $7,000%
Veterans paid no deposit; white non vets paid 5% deposit

Question 27

FHA and DHA lending

Answer 27

Federally guaranteed loans played a huge role – Federal Housing Authority (FHA) in US, Dominion Housing Authority (DHA) in Canada

Aimed to encourage development and increase rates of homeownership

Question 28

post-war suburbanization

Answer 28

Morphology-form of the city/suburban areas
The relationship between workers and builders
Levittown is the idea of the suburban area
Exclusive to white WW2 veterans and their families
Cost around $7,000%
Veterans paid no deposit; white non vets paid 5% deposit

Question 29

redlining

Answer 29

the guidelines tried to steer individuals away from certain neighborhoods typically minority or urban areas