Vocab #15

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

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• oppression

easily seen or understood

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• oppression

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

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• oppression

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

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• oppression

not active

• passive

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

the belief that one race is superior to another

• passive

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

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

• passive

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

the social separation of groups of people, especially by race

• passive

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

understanding or agreeing with the feelings or situation of another person

• sympathetic

• Underground Railroad

• Fredrick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

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

• sympathetic

• Underground Railroad

• Fredrick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman