Social Studies vocabulary words 6th grade
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11 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 slavery | owning people as property |
| alien | a foreign born resident if the US |
| segeregation | the separation of a race, class or ethnic group from the test of society |
| desegregate | to stop racial separation in schools and other public facilities |
| suffage | the right to vote |
| literacy test | a test give to people, to prove they were able to read and write, in order for them to vote |
| literate (literacy) | able to read and write |
| poll tax | a tax that people in the South had to pay, in order to pay |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws common in the South, which requried African Americans to use separate public facilities |
| "seperate but equal" | an idea once accepted in America, that seperate public faculities for blacks and whites were consitutional if they were of equal quality |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | -1954 Supreme Court case -started that racially segergated schools were unconstiutional |
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