The statement is false. The theory of environmental determinism was not first explained by Alfred Kroeber.
Explanation:
The theory of environmental determinism is the conception in which the environment strongly defines or influences human physiology and psychology, so that it would be possible to explain the history of peoples in terms of the cause and effect relationships that would be established in nature / man interaction. It was first used as a theoretical-methodological perspective by some followers of Friedrich Ratzel, which eventually earned him fame as the father of this theory.
The compromise lasted until the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, when Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas proposed legislation allowing the issue of slavery to be decided in the new territories. ... Once the transatlantic slave trade was prohibited, domestic slave trading throughout the South increased.
