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Example Questions
Example Question #21 : Ap Human Geography
The history of the ____________ people, who underwent numerous waves of involuntary and voluntary migrations in Europe over the last several hundred years, closely mirrors the history of the Jewish people over the same time period.
Gauls
Picts
Roma
Danish
Celtic
Roma
The Roma people arrived in Europe some time in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. They migrated from some place in the East, probably over several generations, with the most commonly suspected point of origin being somewhere on the Indian subcontinent. Like the Jewish people who were already well dispersed around Europe the Roma did not assimilate smoothly into the countries they emigrated to. They retained their social customs and religious beliefs and were distrusted by large sections of the local population. For much of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries they were officially persecuted and banished by many of the societies of Europe and forced to migrate endlessly around Europe. State persecution of the Roma continues to this day in many countries.
Example Question #22 : Ap Human Geography
The Boer Republic, which fought a brutal and bloody war against the British Empire at the turn of the twentieth century, was primarily comprised of settlers from which European colonial power?
France.
Portugal
The Netherlands
Sweden
Great Britain
The Netherlands
The Boers were settlers who arrived in what is now called South Africa in the seventeenth century. They came, almost exclusively, from the Netherlands - although some were Huguenots from France and other European countries.
Example Question #23 : Ap Human Geography
The modern day state of Utah was settled for the first time by people of European descent who were fleeing __________.
industrialization
religious persecution
famine and drought
civil war
economic depression
religious persecution
The territory that comprises the modern day state of Utah had long been settled by Native Americans when the first white settlers began to arrive in the nineteenth century. The first group to settle in Utah in large numbers was the Mormons, who were fleeing religious persecution in the East of the United States.
Example Question #21 : Ap Human Geography
In 1998 an estimated 350000 asylum seekers were from Croatia. What were their primary destinations in that year?
Austria and Hungary
Germany and France
Kosovo and Albania
Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
By 1998, the Croats had successfully found independence from their Serb occupiers. What's important here is that 1) Croats are a unique nationality, 2) Serbs are a unique nationality, and 3) the Muslims throughout the region are considered a nationality too. Following the Croatian victory, many ethnic Serbs living in Croatia did not want to be governed by the new Croats' government. So nearly thousands of ethnic Serbs fled Croatia for their “homeland” of Yugoslavia and Bosnia. Remember that Yugoslavia soon after devolved into Serbia-Montenegro, and the dictator Slobodan Milosevic was removed from power by his people.
Example Question #21 : Population & Migration
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island were entering __________.
San Francisco
Sydney
New York City
Mumbai
London
New York City
For several decades of American history Ellis Island served as the point of arrival for immigrants coming to New York City and the United States from Europe and the rest of the world. Due to the vast numbers of Americans whose ancestors arrived via Ellis Island it retains a certain cultural significance even though the vast majority of contemporary immigrants arrive via plane or land borders.
Example Question #21 : Ap Human Geography
The first inhabitants of North America arrived via the Bering Strait into what is modern-day Alaska. How long did it take for these inhabitants to spread over the whole of the Americas?
Two thousand years
Fifteen thousand years
Four thousand years
Five thousand years
Ten thousand years
Two thousand years
The first inhabitants of North America crossed over a land bridge from Asia into North America approximately fifteen thousand years ago. Having arrived in the new continent it took little more than two thousand years before the descendants of these new arrivals had spread across the whole of the Americas.
Example Question #21 : Ap Human Geography
What is the official term for the establishment of the Muslim belief system, along with its desired growth?
Expansive Islam
Muslimism
Globalization
Islamization
Islamization
Islamization, or the establishment of the Islamic faith, began pretty quickly as soon as it was introduced by its founder, Muhammad. It has grown through the ages across various countries, and even continents.
Example Question #21 : Ap Human Geography
Compared to fifty years ago, the “centroid” of the United States population is further __________.
north
west and south
east and south
west and north
east and north
west and south
The “centroid” refers to the geographic center of the population of a country. So, if more people in a country live in the West than in the East, the “centroid” will be further west. The “centroid” of the United States has moved consistently west and south basically since the country was founded. This is because a larger and larger share of the population is living in the West and the South. This is primarily a consequence of migration from the East to the West and from the North to the South.
Example Question #2 : Consequences Of Migration
The “Sun Belt” phenomenon caused significant population growth in all of the following American cities except __________.
Houston
Chicago
Las Vegas
San Diego
Austin
Chicago
The “Sun Belt” is the name used to describe much of the South and West of the United States. Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, cities in these regions experienced dramatic population growth as many Americans migrated away from the Northeast and the Midwest. Chicago is a northern city, so it is not considered part of the “Sun Belt.”
Example Question #29 : Ap Human Geography
The Great Migration contributed to the growth of __________.
China’s population in the twentieth century
the West Coast of the United States in the nineteenth century
industrial centers in the north of the United States
cities throughout the United States
Britain’s colonies in the Americas and Oceania
industrial centers in the north of the United States
The “Great Migration” began in the late nineteenth century and continued throughout much of the early twentieth century. It involved the migration of African-Americans from the Deep South to cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York - the industrial centers of the American northeast and midwest.
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