Pretest 4 Flashcards
Ethnicity is important because
It reinforces diversity in the face of the globalization of culture
The largest numbers of Asian Americans are descended from immigrants from
China
Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States
West
An examination of the distribution of ethnicities in the United States reveals
Ethnic groups tend the cluster in urban areas in different US regions
As part of the triangular slave trade system ships bound for Europe carried
Rum and molasses
From 1910 to 1950, population density of African-Americans in ghettos
Increased
A Racist believes in
The biological classification of people in the superiority of some groups over others of the basics of racial identity
People who were restricted by covenants in deeds included all the following people in the United States except for
Caucasians
The “separate but equal” doctrine in the United States was legally established by
Plessy vs Ferguson
The brown v. board of education court decision ruled that
Separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional
After World War II ended millions of people were forced to migrate because of
Changes in the boundaries of states
African-Americans migrated out of the US South partly as a consequence of
Increased farm mechanism leading to a decreased demand for farm labor
An example of white flight is
Emigration of whites from central Los Angeles as blacks were arriving
Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States
The many ethnic groups living in the United States
For the former Soviet Union, which of these was the most important centripetal device
The Russian language
The Kurds
Have a large population but are divided among enough countries that they are a minority in everyone
Balkanization refers to
The breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities
The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called
Ethnic cleansing
Conflicting claims to the Arctic are mostly due to
The potential for energy resources
The most populous country that is not a member of the United Nations is
Taiwan
Over the past half century, the number of sovereign states in the world
Has increased by more than a hundred
The worlds largest state is
Russia
The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort
Political
An area organized into an independent political unit is a
State
The racist laws that divided South Africans were known as
Apartheid
An area legally tied to a sovereign state, not independent, is a
Colony
A territory occupied by a single ethnic group
Nation-state
The Fertile Crescent
Extended from the persian gulf to the Mediterranean sea and was the location of the first city states in the Middle East
The first states in ancient Mesopotamia were
City-states, which incorporated cities as well as their countryside
The first widespread use of the nationstate concept came in
Western Europe
Among the worlds largest multinational states are
Russia and the United States
Korea is a good example of a(n)
Ethnicity divided between more than one state
The commonwealth is primarily
An economic and cultural alliance of states once part of the British empire
The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is
Antarctica
A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but which of the following
Geometry
A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,
Is an area rather than a line
The boundary between the United States and Canada is the best described by which of the following
Water and geometric
The boundary between Argentina and chile is an example of a
Physical boundary
South Africa, with landlocked Lesotho within its borders, is an example of a
Perforated state
The United States, with Hawaii and Alaska separated from the mainland, is a
Fragmented state
A state with a large, protruding extension, usually for gaining access to a port or natural resources, Is a
Prorupted state
The attempt by one country to to impose political control over another territory is
Colonialism
The motives of European states in establishing colonies can be summarized as all but which of the following
Guilt
Extremely small island-states in the world, many of which are former European colonies, are called
Microstates
The European Union has
Promoted economic growth and integration in Western Europe
An increasing number of states have adopted a federal form of government primarily to
Grant different ethnicities or nationalities more effective representation
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power is called
Gerrymandering
When gerrymandering takes place, the kind of redistricting so that the opposition is spread across many districts as a minority is termed a(n) _______ strategy.
Wasted vote
Key challenges to establishing a representative government in Iraq after saddam hussein are
All of these answers are correct
UN experts concluded that Iraq had ______ in 1991 after its desert storm defeat, but officials in US president George w. Bush’s administration attempted to argue that the UN experts were wrong
Destroyed its weapons of mass destruction
