Unit 5 Vocbulary

Match the following

• publicly recommend or support

• advocate

• treating some people differently than others

• discrimination

• the refusal to comply with certain laws or pay taxes and fines

• Sundown towns

• a place that excluded non-whites

• Xenophobia

• dislike against people from other countries

• civil disobedience

Match the following

• a formal written request, appealing to authority for a cause

• eminent domain

• treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant

• labor (worker)

• the right of a government to take property with compensation

• marginalization

• oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

• Stereotype

• a person doing unskilled manual work for wages

• petition

Match the following

• unwritten rules that define acceptable behaviors

• societal norms

• persons or groups treated as insignificant

• Marginalized

• reasons that someone might migrate/why you might want to settle

• Reform

• making changes to something to improve it

• Push-pull factors

• process to become a citizen

• Naturalization

Match the following

• official power to make legal decisions and judments

• Macroeconomics

• group of employees that join together with common employment issues

• Jurisdiction

• the state of being dependent upon one another

• union (labor)

• large scale economics especially with interest rates and taxes

• Interdependence

• a practice to favor certain groups of people for employment

• affirmative action

Match the following

• scientific immoral theory or racial improvement

• assimilation

• process of people of differing ethnic backgrounds integrating to their surroundings

• coverture

• devote money to a special purpose/take for one's own use

• appropriation

• inclusion of a woman in the legal person of her husband upon marriage

• miscegenation

• sexual relationships between different ethnic groups

• eugenics

Match the following

• lacking compassion/cruel

• Diverse

• attitude that one ethnicity is better than another

• Equality

• showing a great deal of variety

• inhumane

• lack of fairness

• Ethnocentrism

• every person is equal especially in status, rights and opportunities

• Inequity