unit 4 vocab

Question 1

triangular slave trade

Answer 1

a practice, primarily during the 18th century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean Islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa

Question 2

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 2

state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern U.S.

Question 3

“White flight”

Answer 3

the phenomenon of white people moving out of urban areas, particularly those with significant minority populations, and into suburban areas

Question 4

blockbusting

Answer 4

a process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood

Question 5

ethno-nationalism

Answer 5

a form of nationalism in which the nation is defined in terms of ethnicity

Question 6

multi-ethnic state

Answer 6

state that contains more than one ethnicity

Question 7

multinational state

Answer 7

state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities

Question 8

gerrymandering

Answer 8

process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power

Question 9

devolution

Answer 9

the movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state or breakup of a large state (balkanization) into several independent ones

Question 10

shatterbelts

Answer 10

a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals