Vocab

Question 1

civil rights

Answer 1

the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

Question 2

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 2

state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South US

Question 3

13th Amendment

Answer 3

ratified in 1865; abolished slavery in the US.

Question 4

Black Codes

Answer 4

laws passed by southern states in 1865 and 1866 in US after the Civil war with intent and the effect of restriction African American freedom

Question 5

14th Amendment

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was adopted on July 9th, 1968, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the Civil War

Question 6

equal but separate

Answer 6

the doctrine set forth by the US Supreme Court that sanctioned the segregation of individuals by race in separate but equal facilities but that was invalidated as unconstitutional

Question 7

KKK

Answer 7

secret hate group in the US, active for several years after the Civil War; aimed to suppress newly acquired rights of black people and to oppose carpetbaggers form the north - lawless and violent

Question 8

Neo-Nazi

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Neo-Nazism consists of post-WWII militant social or political movements seeking to revive and implement the ideologies of the Nazis

Question 9

White privilege

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it’s the societal privilege that benefits people who society identifies as white in some countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances

Question 10

white supremacy

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racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races, and that therefore, white people should be dominant over other races

Question 11

McCarthyism

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a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations

Question 12

marginalization

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Treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant. To put or keep someone in a powerless or unimportant position within a society or group

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opprssion

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prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control

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ostracism

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exclusion from a society or group

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affirmative action

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an action or polity favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education

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social alienation

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condition in social relationships reflected by a low degree of integration or common values and a high degree of distance or isolation between a individual and a group of people in a community or work environment

Question 17

international human right laws

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lays down obligations which states are bound to respect

Question 18

anti-semitism

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hostility or prejudice against Jews

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sectarianism

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excessive attachment to a particular sect or party, especially in religion

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legal oppression

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the subjugation of one group by another, carried out under conditions of unequal power, and often enforced by threats of or by actual violence

Question 21

voting rights

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Act of 1965 - a law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. Eliminated various devices such as literacy tests that had been used to restrict black people form voting

Question 22

black nationalists

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type of nationalism which espouses the belief that black people are a nation and seeks to develop and maintain a black identity