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Pretest 4 Flashcards

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Ethnicity is important because

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It reinforces diversity in the face of the globalization of culture

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The largest numbers of Asian Americans are descended from immigrants from

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China

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3
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Asian Americans are clustered in what area of the United States

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West

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4
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An examination of the distribution of ethnicities in the United States reveals

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Ethnic groups tend the cluster in urban areas in different US regions

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5
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As part of the triangular slave trade system ships bound for Europe carried

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Rum and molasses

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6
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From 1910 to 1950, population density of African-Americans in ghettos

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Increased

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7
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A Racist believes in

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The biological classification of people in the superiority of some groups over others of the basics of racial identity

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8
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People who were restricted by covenants in deeds included all the following people in the United States except for

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Caucasians

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9
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The “separate but equal” doctrine in the United States was legally established by

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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10
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The brown v. board of education court decision ruled that

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Separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional

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After World War II ended millions of people were forced to migrate because of

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Changes in the boundaries of states

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12
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African-Americans migrated out of the US South partly as a consequence of

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Increased farm mechanism leading to a decreased demand for farm labor

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13
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An example of white flight is

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Emigration of whites from central Los Angeles as blacks were arriving

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14
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Which of the following is not a strong centripetal force in the United States

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The many ethnic groups living in the United States

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For the former Soviet Union, which of these was the most important centripetal device

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The Russian language

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The Kurds

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Have a large population but are divided among enough countries that they are a minority in everyone

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17
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Balkanization refers to

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The breakdown of a state due to conflicts among nationalities

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18
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The process when a group forcibly removes another group is called

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Ethnic cleansing

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19
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Conflicting claims to the Arctic are mostly due to

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The potential for energy resources

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20
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The most populous country that is not a member of the United Nations is

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Taiwan

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21
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Over the past half century, the number of sovereign states in the world

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Has increased by more than a hundred

22
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The worlds largest state is

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Russia

23
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The United Nations is primarily what kind of cooperative effort

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Political

24
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An area organized into an independent political unit is a

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State

25
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The racist laws that divided South Africans were known as

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Apartheid

26
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An area legally tied to a sovereign state, not independent, is a

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Colony

27
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A territory occupied by a single ethnic group

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Nation-state

28
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The Fertile Crescent

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Extended from the persian gulf to the Mediterranean sea and was the location of the first city states in the Middle East

29
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The first states in ancient Mesopotamia were

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City-states, which incorporated cities as well as their countryside

30
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The first widespread use of the nationstate concept came in

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Western Europe

31
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Among the worlds largest multinational states are

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Russia and the United States

32
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Korea is a good example of a(n)

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Ethnicity divided between more than one state

33
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The commonwealth is primarily

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An economic and cultural alliance of states once part of the British empire

34
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The only large land mass not part of a sovereign state is

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Antarctica

35
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A feature of the physical environment commonly used to separate states includes all but which of the following

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Geometry

36
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A frontier, in contrast to a boundary,

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Is an area rather than a line

37
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The boundary between the United States and Canada is the best described by which of the following

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Water and geometric

38
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The boundary between Argentina and chile is an example of a

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Physical boundary

39
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South Africa, with landlocked Lesotho within its borders, is an example of a

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Perforated state

40
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The United States, with Hawaii and Alaska separated from the mainland, is a

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Fragmented state

41
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A state with a large, protruding extension, usually for gaining access to a port or natural resources, Is a

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Prorupted state

42
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The attempt by one country to to impose political control over another territory is

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Colonialism

43
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The motives of European states in establishing colonies can be summarized as all but which of the following

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Guilt

44
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Extremely small island-states in the world, many of which are former European colonies, are called

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Microstates

45
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The European Union has

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Promoted economic growth and integration in Western Europe

46
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An increasing number of states have adopted a federal form of government primarily to

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Grant different ethnicities or nationalities more effective representation

47
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The process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benefit the party in power is called

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Gerrymandering

48
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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.

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Wasted vote

49
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Key challenges to establishing a representative government in Iraq after saddam hussein are

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All of these answers are correct

50
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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

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Destroyed its weapons of mass destruction

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