Vocabulary Flashcards
Plessy V.Ferguson
1896 Supreme Court case that established separate but equal; allowed for Jim Crowe laws
Civil right’s
Rights guaranteed to all US citizens by the constitution
Integration
To bring the parts together to form a whole bringing the races together
Prejudice
Unfair negative opinion about the group of people, A believe
Civil rights act of 1866
Declared all persons born in the US except Native Americans were citizens and entitled to equal rights
Social separation
The idea that the races peacefully live separate from each other but still are equal in every way
Reconciliation
To settle differences after the argument or fight: to bring together again
Reconstruction
Time. After the Civil War when the south was rebuilt
Discrimination
Different treatment based on a person’s race an action
Segregation
Separation especially of race
13th amendment
Banned/abolish slavery in the United States in any of its territories adopted December 1865
14th amendment
Grant citizenship to all persons born in the US and guarantees than equal protection under the law adopted July 1870
15th amendment
Ensures that all citizens have the right to vote regardless of race color or previous condition of servitude adopted March 1870
Assimilation
The process of becoming part of another culture: to blend in
Exodusters
Between 40 and 70,000 African-Americans who moved to Kansas in 1881 seeking land to Homestead and a better life
