EAST SS Unit 1-4 Vocab

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The system that describes the significant increase in the number of people imprisoned in United States' prisons over the past fifty years.

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Mass Incarceration

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The suspension or withdrawal of voting rights due to the conviction of a criminal offense.

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Felony Disenfranchisement

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The Brown v. Board decision declared the system of legal segregation a violation of the 14th Amendment.

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True

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Systemic Racism for African Americans exists today as a continuation of our nation's history.

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True

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Abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime.” Though free by law, most formerly enslaved people were not safe to exercise even the most basic expression of that freedom.

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13th Amendment

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Taking action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports or defends, or pleads on behalf of others.

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Advocacy

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White unemployment hit an extraordinarily high rate of 31.7% in 1931, it was well over 50% for Black Americans. True or False?

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True

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A national crisis can impact certain groups more than others, but also provides an opportunity to use social awareness to take action for equality. True or False?

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True

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A series of programs designed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to provide “Relief, Recovery, Reform” (3 R’s).

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New Deal

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Established to assist homeowners who could not pay their mortgages and were in foreclosure. It also created maps of major cities labeling neighborhoods considered high risk creating “redlining.”

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HOLC