Civil Rights Vocabulary for Final Exam
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MmeKaiser Plus on June 2, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 slaves | are people who are owned by other people and forced to work for no pay |
| plantation | a large farm |
| Underground Railroad | a secret trail, a network of people and places, that abolitionists made and used to help slaves escape to freedom |
| resistance | not cooperating with something you believe to be wrong or unfair |
| abolitionists | people who believed that slavery should be ended |
| discrimination | actions taken that treat people unfairly and unequally because of their color, religion, gender, physical disability, or sexual preference |
| prejudice | judging something or someone before you have enough information, especially judging a person based on race, religion, gender, physical disability, or sexual preference |
| segregation | a practice that separated blacks and whites |
| Jim Crow laws | that did not allow African Americans to enjoy the same privileges and services as white Americans |
| boycott | a nonviolent way of refusing to buy goods or services |
| civil rights | equal protection under the law |
| Rosa Parks | the woman arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man and whose action led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. |
| boycott | refusal by people to buy or to use a product |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | an important leader in the Civil Rights Movement |
| civil rights | fair and equal treatment of all under the law |
| Malcolm X | another important leader in the Civil Rights Movement |
| nonviolent action | the peaceful method of resistance adopted for the Civil Rights Movement by Martin Luther King Jr., and based on the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi of India |
| heritage | traditions passed on to future generations |
| justice | the quality of being fair |
| injustice | the quality of being unfair |
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