Social Study Test

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

The takeover of a nation to dominate its government, trade, and/or culture.

Question 2

Nationalism

Answer 2

Competing with other nations to prove your country’s greatness

Question 3

Apartheid

Answer 3

1948-1994: Whites and blacks separated w/ whites taking power, mistreating blacks, and making laws that did so

Question 4

Genocide

Answer 4

Mass murder of a particular group of people

Question 5

Rite Of Passage

Answer 5

An initiation or ritual for someone to be accepted in manhood

Question 6

Ethnocentrism

Answer 6

Believing you are better than another country, because you have better technology

Question 7

Developing Nation

Answer 7

A country with a lower standard of living, lower literacy rate, and lower life expectancy. Not very good economy.

Question 8

Developed Nation

Answer 8

A country with a higher literacy rate, Better economy, higher life expectancy, higher standard of living.

Question 9

White Man’s Burden

Answer 9

Belief that Euro’s and Americans had a duty to civilize other parts of the world and make them like them