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Active Citizenship
Practice for the quiz on Active Citizenship Basics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Litigation | Settling a disagreement in court |
| Legislation | the action of making laws |
| Innovation | creating a new method to accomplish a task |
| Education | The sharing of knowledge and skills |
| Cotton gin | created in 1794, increased the value of slaves and cotton, innovation |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | Law passed that provided fair treatment for African Americans, legislation |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | court case that ended school segregation, litigation |
| Dr. Martin Luther King, JR | "I have a dream speech" helped to educate people about the reality of treatment of African Americans. |
| Plessy v Ferguson | court case that establishes "separate but equal" as the legal language of segregation |
| civil rights | the rights of full equality |
| de facto segregation | segregation by society , no official rules, but the people enforce |
| de jure segregation | segregation that is created by laws that separate groups of people |
| Jim Crow laws | Laws that separated people of different races in public places of the South |
| civil disobedience | strategy used to try to create change by breaking a law that is believed to be unfair, public and non violent |
| 13th Amendment | amendment that ends slavery |
| 14th Amendment | amendment that grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States, and protects their rights to equal protection under the law |
| 15th Amendment | amendment that states you cannot deny the right to vote based on race, color, or having been a slave |