Civil Rights Vocabulary Review

A person who believed slavery should be outlawed, and who worked to achieve that goal

• 13th Amendment

• Boycott

• Suffrage

• Abolitionist

Amendment passed in 1865 making slavery illegal and setting former slaves free

• Prejudice

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Amendment that gave citizenship rights to former slaves and guaranteed them equal protection of the law

• 13th Amendment

• Racism

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Amendment that gave African-American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Segregation

a system of laws and practices that discriminated against African-Americans

• Sit-in

• Plessy Vs Ferguson

• Jim Crow

• Civil Disobedience

A form of protest where people refuse to do business with or have contact with a person, group, or business, as in the Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Suffrage

• Boycott

• Racism

• Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

The separation of a race or ethnic group from other groups, such as having separate schools for Whites and non-Whites

• Suffrage

• Integration

• Segregation

• Racism

A form of protest where people sit in a public place and stay there until they are arrested or otherwise forced to leave, such as the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina

• Suffrage

• Civil Disobedience

• Sit-In

• Jim Crow

The right to vote

• Abolitionist

• 15th Amendment

• Suffrage

• 13th Amendment

Court case in 1896 that stated that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional. This set the precedent that allowed other laws which segregated Blacks and Whites

• Integration

• Brown Vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

• Plessy Vs Ferguson

• Prejudice