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civil rights vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Roots | book that alex haley wrote. about traceing his family tree |
| SCLC | southern christian leadership conference- lead by MLK |
| Brown vs. Board Of Education | 1954-desegregation of schools |
| Discrimination | different treatment twards a person or thing based on the group, |
| prejudice | bad feelings, opinions, or attitudes,twards racial, or religious groups. |
| Racism | hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. |
| Plantation | Usually a small farm where cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, usually cultivated by slaves |
| Indentured servants | a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, |
| Middle passage | the part of the Atlantic ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the trip made by slave ships. |
| Extended family | Aunts,Uncles,Inlaws |
| Triangular trade | slaves were bought on the African gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum. |
| slave auction | Place where slaves are showed off and sold to others |
| Cotton gin | A machine that filters cotton takes out seeds,dirt and other things that needed to be taken out |
| Slave codes | Not allowed to marry, not allowed to be alone with other slaves without a slave driver or owner |
| Underground railroad | a plan that took slaves to freedom states. |
| Abolition | the legal prohibition and ending of slavery |
| segregation | the seperation of different groups becuase of differences like race and religion |