vocab 2 Flashcards
apartheid
racial segregation
genocide
destruction of a group of people due to their ethnicity, religoin, race or nationality
multiculturalism
supports equality
status indian
- registered or treaty indians
deindustrialization
reduction of manufacturing within an economy
columbian exchange
trade between the america’s and europe of goods as well as disease
historical globalization
began as people travelled for knowledge and trade
imperialism
extension of power over other countries in a more indirect approach
fur trade
europeans would trade with indigenous peoples for fur
residential schools
- aboriginal kids were forced to attend
- restricted from not practicing their culture
- last school closed in (1996)
the indian act
laws specific to indigenous peoples that worked toward assimilating indigenous culture
land claims
address wrongs made against Indigenous peoples
numbered treaties
were used to assimilate Indigenous peoples into Canadian society
beothuk
inhabited newfoundland originally
- there are no descendants
the pass system
Indigenous people had to present a travel document authorized by an Indian agent in order to leave and return to their reserves
the scramble for africa
when imperial countries gained control over africa
- the berlin conference
(~1885)
adam smith
believed that states can create more wealth by not trading
rwandan genocide
Hutu population who planned to kill the minority Tutsi population
(1994)
british east india company
strived to exploit indian and asian products
- acted as an agent of British imperialism in India
the atlantic slave trade
transportation of african’s to the america’s to be slaves
exploitation
one social group is able to take for itself what is produced by another group
eurocentrism
seeing things based on the belief system of europeans
ethnocentrism
evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture
capitalism
a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for rather than by the state
displacement
moving something out of its place
imperialism (old vs new)
old imperialism was the founding of new land and new imperialism was moreso colonization
colonialism
acquiring political control over another country