Social Stuides Terms Test 1

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Race

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A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.Group united by history, national tradition.

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a local or geo.....

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Ethnicity

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of or related people sharing a common, racial, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage

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of or related people.....

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Culture

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The behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought especially as expressed in a particular community

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the behavior patterns, arts, beliefs ......

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Nationality

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Status of belonging to a particular nation by birth, origin, or naturalized

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Status of belonging to...

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Patriotism

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devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.

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Ethnocentrism

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the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture.

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Mitigating

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to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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(1896) Homer Plessy joined in a planned challenge of the "Seperate Car Act", and was arrested even though that he was part white because he was classified as an African American.

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Charles Darwin

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Scientist who invented a process called natural selection, which he invented for use on animals.

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The origin of species

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a book written by Charles Darwin introducing the theory of evolution that humans evolved over many generations through a process called natural selection

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Social Darwinism

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Darwin's theory was applied to humans by a man named Herbert Spencer. Herbert Spencer's spin on the theory said that only the fittest "purest" breed of human would survive. Those who got sick were not the "fittest"

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Eugenics

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the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally

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Hierarchy

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Any system of persons or things ranked one above another.

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Scapegoat

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the person to blame (religious groups, outcasts, racial groups etc)

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Miscegenation

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marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races, especially., in the U.S., between a black and a white person.

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Miscere

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(latin) to mix, mingle, blend

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Genus

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a class or in scientific terms the name of a major subdivision of a family

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Buck vs Bell

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1924: The Supreme court held a Virginia statue that provided for the eugenic sterilization for the genetically "unfit"

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Loving vs Virginia

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a "landmark" civil rights case that the Supreme Court declared the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924" unconstitutional, removing all restrictions on marriage regarding race

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Involuntary Sterilization

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When the government would sterilize you without your permission

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Harry Laughlin

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a leading american eugenicist

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Model Sterilization Law

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passed to legalize the involuntary sterilization of the socially unfit

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The unfit

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those who get sick or sexually assaulted

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Antisemitism

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discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews

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Assimilation

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the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

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Conformity

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action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.

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Propaganda

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action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.

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Joseph Goebbels

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leader of the Nazi party's propaganda unit