Unit 6 Vocabulary Flashcards

(24 cards)

1
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a person who manages,
especially business or public affairs

A

Administrator

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2
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the practice of a foreign
government exercising political
or economic control of another community

A

Colonialism

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3
Q

the role race and racism had in
American society after the
abolition of slavery

A

Color Line

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4
Q

the governmental office that
administers trade and collects
taxes on imports and exports

A

Customs

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5
Q

to leave one country or region,
usually the country of origin, in
order to settle in another

A

Emigrate

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6
Q

making unfair use of a situation
for profit or benefit

A

Exploitative

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7
Q

an extreme and widespread
shortage of food

A

Famine

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8
Q

direct colonial control of a
community by a foreign empire

A

Formal Colonialism

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9
Q

how humans move from one place to another

A

Immigration

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10
Q

the policy of extending the rule or
authority of one nation over others
by territorial acquisition or through
economic or political dominance

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Imperialism

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11
Q

an economic system that combines
capitalism with intense
manufacturing production in
factories, characterized by
division of labor to increase
efficiency

A

Industrial Capitalism

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12
Q

a person who travels from place to
place to find employment

A

Migrant

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13
Q

the process or act of updating or
redesigning something to make it
look new or contemporary

A

Modernization

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14
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a purposeful course of harassing,
punishing, or exterminating others,
especially because of their race or
their religious, moral, or political
beliefs

A

Persecution

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15
Q

the condition of being poor or
lacking the necessary means of
support

A

Poverty

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16
Q

a financial gain

17
Q

the theory or opinion that a
certain race or races of
people, usually one’s own, are
superior to others because of
certain inborn characteristics
and any policy or practice
based on said belief

18
Q

an uprising or armed resistance
against established authority or
a government

19
Q

the act or process of making
amends for wrongdoing or
injury; payment required of a
defeated nation by the victors,
for damages, alleged
atrocities, or other injury

20
Q

relating to, or describing the
country

21
Q

an act of segregating
(separating), or the condition
of being segregated, especially
as a policy imposing social
separation according to racial
or ethnic groups

22
Q

a late-nineteenth-century
pseudoscientific theory in
which Darwinism is applied to
the understanding of human
society, as in the belief of the
genetic superiority of some
individuals or groups over
others

A

Social Darwinism

23
Q

noun: a person who owes allegiance
to a monarch or to a state; adj: under
the power, authority, or influence of
someone or something; verb: to bring under one’s power, authority, or influence

24
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of or pertaining to a city or town