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Civil Rights Flashcards

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Freedom

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The right to act, speak or think as one wants

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Civil rights

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The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

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Slavery

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The system of owning slaves

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Negro

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A dated and offensive term for black people

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Citizen

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A person who is legally recognised by the state

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Descrimination

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The prejudicial treatment of different types of people

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Segregation

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The enforced separation of different racial groups

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State (law)

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Applicable to one state in the USA

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Federal (law)

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Applicable to all states in the USA

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Amendment

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An article added to the US constitution

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Boycott

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A refusal to engage in a policy or event as a form of protest

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Strike

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The refusal to work as a form of organised protest

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Industrialisation

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The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale

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Capitalism

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An economic and political system based on private enterprise

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Communism

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An economic and social system in which all property is owned by the community

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Socialism

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A transitional state between capitalism and communism of an economic and social system in which all property is owned by the community (Marxist)

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Trade union

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An organisation of workers by trades or professions formed to protect their rights

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Nomadic

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A person or group of people who are not settled in one place

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Polygamy

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The practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time

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Feminism

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The belief in establishing equal political, economic and social rights for women

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Laissez-faire

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A belief that government should not regulate the economy

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Judiciary

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The judicial authorities of a country

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Public sector

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Business or industries owned and managed by the state

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Private sector

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Businesses or industried owned and managed privately

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Real wages

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What wages can actually buy

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Radical

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Extreme, far reaching and, or, thorough

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Bipartisan

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The cooperation of two opposing political parties

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Habeas corpus

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The right not to be detained unlawfully

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American dream

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The ideal of equality of opportunity allowing all Americans the ability to achieve

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Melting pot

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A place where different people are mixed together

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Menifest destiny

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The belief that Americans had a god given right to settle the continent of America

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Jim crow

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A dated and offensive term for black people and, or, the system of segregation

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Dejure segregation

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The separation of the races by law

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Defacto segregation

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The separation of races by social and economic opportunities and circumstances

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Sharecropping

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A system of farming in which land is rented in return for a share of the crops produced

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Reconstruction

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The period of time immediately after the civil war

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Scab labour

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Workers who are willing to work during strikes

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Closed shop

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A workplace where one union dominates and workers have to belong to that union

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Blue collar

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Manual work or workers

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White collar

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Professional, technical or clerical work or workers

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Yellow dog contract

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Contracts signed by workers agreeing not to join a union

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Welfare capitalism

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A policy in America in the 1920s where employers offered improved working conditions and benefits in return for the establishment of unions under their Direct control

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Social darwinism

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A dated theory that humans are subject to the same darwinism laws of Natural Selection as plants and animals

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Nativism

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The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

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Temperance

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The belief that alcohol was a social evil and should be prohibited

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Ethnocentric

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Evaluating other cultures according to preconceptions originating from one’s own culture

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Pan africanism

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A belief in the need for unity and solidarity among Africans all over the world

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Bifurcation

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The splitting of the black community into two Economic, and us social and political, groups

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