Lesson 20 Vocab

Lesson 20 Vocab

Discrimination

• Definition - unequal treatment based on a person’s race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristic

• Example - A company not paying minority workers the same wage as white workers

• Non-Example: A minority student getting suspended for punching somebody in the face

Multiple Choice

unequal treatment based on a person’s race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristic

• racism

• oppression

• passive

• discrimination

Evident

• Definition - easily seen or understood

  
  

  Example - It's evident after losing every race that Jimmy is slow.

• Non-Example - Disappear, hide

Multiple Choice

easily seen or understood

• passive

• evident

• racism

• sympathetic

Nat Turners Rebellion

• Definition - a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner that took place in Virginia in 1831

• Example - Rebellion led by Nat Turner

• Non-Example - Any other slave rebellion.

Oppression

• Definition - the feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force

• Example - Slavery in the US before the Civil War.

• Non-Example - A student getting D's on every test because they don't do their work.

Multiple Choice

the feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force

• racism

• discrimination

• oppression

Passive

• Definition - not active

• Example - An athlete who does not hustle, a person who never gets exercise

• Non-Example: Someone who is always fighting.

Multiple Choice

not active

• racism

• passive

• segregation

Racism

• Definition - the belief that one race is superior to another

• Example - Andrew Jackson's views on the American Indians.

• Non-Example - A company not paying minority workers the same wage as white workers (this is discrimination, not racism)

Multiple Choice

the belief that one race is superior to another

• segregation

• oppression

• racism

Reformer

• Definition - someone who works to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustice

• Example - Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists

• Non-Example - Slave owners

Multiple Choice

someone who works to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustice

• Reformer

• Segregation

• Slave Owner

Segregation

• Definition - the social separation of groups of people, especially by race

• Example - Having separate restrooms for blacks and whites

• Non-Example - Different races serving in the army together

Multiple Choice

the social separation of groups of people, especially by race

• Racism

• Segregation

• Oppression

Sympathetic

• Definition - understanding or agreeing with the feelings or situation of another person

• Example - Listening to your friends problems when they have a bad day

• Non-Example - Ignoring someone else's feelings.

Multiple Choice

understanding or agreeing with the feelings or situation of another person

• racism

• oppression

• sympathetic

Underground Railroad

• Definition - a secret network of free blacks and whites who helped thousands of slaves escape to free states and Canada

• Example - Slaves escaping with the help of Harriet Tubman

• Non-Example - Slaves being sold to a different plantation

Multiple Choice

a secret network of free blacks and whites who helped thousands of slaves escape to free states and Canada

• Discrimination

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Underground Railroad