Unit 7 Vocabulary

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

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

Blocking off an area to keep supplies from getting in or out is?

• sharecropper

• revenue

• sectionalism

• blockade

A tenant farmer who receives a portion of the crop

• blockade

• sharecropper

• popular sovereignty

• revenue

A system where the government owns and controls all resources and means of production

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism

• Feudalism

The movement of people from rural areas to cities is known as

• Urbanization

• Globalization

• Industrialization

• Colonization

A political system where power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units

• Monarchy

• Federalism

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

The economic policy of restraining trade between states through methods such as tariffs on imported goods

• Free Trade

• Protectionism

• Laissez-faire

• Mercantilism