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English Vocab
English Vocabulary 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights | |
| Segregation | |
| Integration | The bringing together of racial groups, the acceptance as equals into society |
| freedom | liberty or independence |
| justice | the quality or state of being the same |
| slavery | to be fair |
| Abolitionists | the practice of owning someone that can be sold at an action (people= Property) |
| Underground Railroad | a system of cooperation in the US before 1863 by which slaves were secretly helped out and lead to freedom in the north and Canada |
| Boycott | refusing to do something usually to express disapproval toward a person, organization, in country |
| Sit-Ins | |
| Freedom Riders | people who traveled by bus to protest the unequal treatment of people on transportation |
| Jim Crow | |
| granted citizenship, prohibiting the states to forbid basic rights of citizens. Blacks used the amendment to help them win freedom. | |
| bigotry |