Unit 4

Question 1

Redlining

Answer 1

Financial institutions draw red lines on a map. They refuse to lend money people would use to purchase or improve properties in the red lines. Outlawed in 1968

Question 2

Blockbusting

Answer 2

When real estate agents convince white people to sell their houses to them at low prices so they can sell them for a bunch of money to minorities. Out of fear that non-white people would move into the neighborhood.

Question 3

White Flight

Answer 3

White people migrating from areas becoming more racially/ethnically diverse

Question 4

Apartheid

Answer 4

Legal separations of races into different areas in South Africa. Ended 1991

Question 5

Voting District

Answer 5

Districts in US states that are organized for democratic representation. Determined by population.

Question 6

Redistricting

Answer 6

Redrawing district boundaries as population changes.

Question 7

Gerrymandering

Answer 7

Redrawing district boundaries to give an advantage or disadvantage to a political party.

Question 8

Supranational Organization

Answer 8

A multinational union. Member countries give up some authority and sovereignty for the good of the union.

Question 9

Balkanization

Answer 9

A country breaking up into smaller countries [amung different ethnic lines]

Question 10

Enclave

Answer 10

Landlocked territory surrounded completely by another territory.

Question 11

Exclave

Answer 11

Portion of a country’s territory is disconnected from the rest of the country. ISLANDS DO NOT COUNT

Question 12

Self Determination

Answer 12

Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

Question 13

Ethnonationalism

Answer 13

Being loyal to a particular ethnic/racial group and not a nation

Question 14

Nationalism

Answer 14

Being loyal to a nation, especially to the exclusion/detriment of other nations.

Question 15

Ethnic Cleansing

Answer 15

Policy designed to remove an ethnicity or religion group. Violent/terror inspiring.
Ex. Trail of Tears

Question 16

Genocide

Answer 16

Mass killing a group of people. Attempting to eliminate that entire group from existence.
Ex. The Holocaust.

Question 17

Colonialism

Answer 17

Attempt by a state to establish settlements and impose political, economic, and cultural principles in a different territory.

Question 18

Imperialism

Answer 18

Policy of extending a state’s power. Through diplomacy or military force.

Question 19

Neo-Colonialism

Answer 19

Indirect control over a region. By a MDC or corporation.

Question 20

Shatterbelt

Answer 20

Area of instability between regions with different political/cultural values.

Question 21

Choke Point

Answer 21

Narrow channel/passage that has limited access for transportation.

Question 22

Irridentism

Answer 22

A movement by a nation to reclaim or recover ‘lost’ territory from another state.
Ex. Crimea with Russia/Ukraine.

Question 23

Neo-Liberalism

Answer 23

Idea that government intervention into markets is inefficient and should be resisted wherever possible