Social Studies 10-1 Final Review Unit 2

Front 1

What is the main question for unit two?

Back 1

To what extent should contemporary society respond to the legacies of historical globalization?

Front 2

What is absolutism?

Back 2

A political system in which power and the right to rule belongs exclusively to the socially elite.

Front 3

What was the policy of the South African government from 1948 to 1990 that denied rights to non-White citizens called?

Back 3

Apartheid.

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What is capitalism?

Back 4

An economic system designed for increasing individual wealth, requiring a relatively free market, open competition, the profit motive, and at least some private ownership of the means of production.

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What is the practice of not allowing someone or something into your country, also known as a policy that separates people from one another known as?

Back 5

A "closed door" policy.

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What is communism?

Back 6

A planned economic system in which the government owns all means of production and all people work for government-owned and government-ran enterprises.

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What is an early stage of economic development in which workers produce limited numbers of goods in their homes called?

Back 7

Cottage Industries.

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What are the interactions of diverse cultures and perspectives which may result in change of values, beliefs, and traditions called?

Back 8

Cultural contacts.

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What is depopulation?

Back 9

The reduction of a population because of conflict, disease, loss of resources, cultural change, or assimilation.

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What is a word that describes something that is divided into parts, as, for example, the First Nations were divided from one another by the Indian Act?

Back 10

Disaggregated.

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What is the involuntary dispersal of people, especially from their homeland called?

Back 11

Displacement.

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Who are Entrepreneurs?

Back 12

People who take risks by launching business ventures in the hope of making profit.

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What is the belief that the European worldview is superior to all others called?

Back 13

Eurocentrism.

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What is the use of a person for selfish reasons called?

Back 14

Exploitation.

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What is the EZLN?

Back 15

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation; a revolutionary leftist political and militant group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.

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What is a market in which the government would regulate nothing and all businesses and property would be privately owned called?

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A free market.

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What is imperialism?

Back 17

An association between peoples that intentionally benefits one people over another, often by laying claim to territories inhabited by Indigenous or Non-Indigenous peoples, seizing land and and resources through conflict and warfare, and imposing political control.

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What is a stage of economic development that occurs when the place of production shift from the home and small craft shops to large factories called?

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Industrialization.

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What was the Industrial Revolution?

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It was the combination of social and economic changes brought about by the extensive use of machinery during production, especially in Great Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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What is international trade?

Back 20

The interchange of raw materials and manufactured goods among distant groups of people.

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What was the system of government, from the 16th to 19th centuries, in which government-sponsored international business ventures were designed to make European monarchs rich called?

Back 21

Mercantilism.

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What is paternalistic?

Back 22

It is characterized by treating or governing people in a fatherly way, especially by providing for them without giving them rights and responsibilities.

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What does redress mean?

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To commit an action in an attempt to right past wrongs.

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What were Residential Schools?

Back 24

Boarding schools for the acculturation and assimilation of Aboriginal students, run by religious groups or the government from the 1830s to the 1950s.

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What is financial help given by the government to help support an industry called?

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Subsidies.

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What is a world view?

Back 26

A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world; the way we interpret the past, understand the present, and imagine the future.

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What does Capitalism value?

Back 27

Capitalism values respect for profit, economic freedom, competition, personal responsibility, and consumerism.