Slavery as a System
Huge farms in the South that grew crops such as cotton.
What are plantations?
Separation of the races in daily life.
What is segregation?
Allows products to move from worker to worker, each one performing a specific step in the process.
What is an assembly?
Physical work done by hand.
What is manual labor?
What is a poll tax?
FDR's relief, recovery, & reform programs for the U.S. during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The Africa to the Americas trade system.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Stated if a person's grandfather had been eligible to vote, then that person could vote as well.
What is a grandfather clause?
The African American division of the Army Air Corps during WWII.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The 3-way exchange of goods and slaves between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is Triangular Trade?
Supreme Court Case that said separate but equal was legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
African American kitchen attendant who carried wounded soldiers to safety & fired at enemy planes with anti-aircraft guns.
Who is Dorie Miller?
The most profitable leg of the triangular trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
He believed African Americans should learn a trade, and that they would be treated equally if they were efficient workers.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled the "separate but equal" doctrine was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?