Lesson 20 African Americans in the Mid-1800s Key Terms

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

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• opression

• passive

easily seen or understood

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• opression

• passive

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

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• opression

• passive

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

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• opression

• passive

not active

• discrimination

• evident

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• opression

• passive

the belief that one race is superior to another

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

• sympathetic

• Underground Railroad

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

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

• sympathetic

• Underground Railroad

the social separation of groups of people, especially by race

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

• sympathetic

• Underground Railroad

understanding or agreeing with the feelings or situation of another person

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

• sympathetic

• Underground Railroad

a secret network of free black people and white people who helped thousands of people escape slavery and go to states without slavery and Canada

• racism

• reformer

• segregation

• sympathetic

• Underground Railroad