Unit 7 Vocab

The rights that the Constitution entitles all people to as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law

• Social order

• Social justice

• Civil justice

• Civil rights

The social separation of groups of people, especially by race

• Segregation

• Reconstruction

• Racism

• Discrimination

The period after the Civil War when the U.S. government ruled the southern states in order to rebuild them and allow them back into the union

• Discrimination

• Civil rights

• Reconstruction

• Segregation

Laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the south after the Civil War. “Jim Crow” was a black character in an  entertainer’s act in the mid-1800’s

• Racism

• Jim Crow Laws

• Discrimination

• Segregation

Prejudice based on race

• Racism

• Segregation

• Discrimination

• Jim Crow Laws

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

• Jim Crow Laws

• Discrimination

• Racism

• Segregation

A change to the constitution

• Amendments

• Bill of Rights

• Segregation

• Civil rights

A form of peaceful protest (nonviolent) in which people occupied seats in a segregated facility

• Violence

• Marches

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sit-In

The blending of all people as equals; the opposite of segregation

• Segregation

• Integration

• Civil rights

• Sit-In