Vocab
A purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove, by violent and terror-inspiring means, the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
What is Ethnic Cleansing?
During the 18th century, this European power transported approximately 400,000 enslaved Africans to the 13 colonies that would eventually become the United States.
Who are the British
In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in this case that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This two-word rhyming term describes the mass movement of white city-dwellers to the suburbs throughout the mid-20th century, often in response to racial integration.
What is White Flight?
The youngest US president to be elected. He was president during the Cuban Missile crisis. He was assassinated during a parade, where he was sitting in a convertible.
Who was JFK/John F. Kennedy?
A person who rents and works a field from a landowner and repays loans over crops
What is a sharecropper?
Numbers limiting the amount of people who can enter the United States.
What are quotas?
This African National Congress leader was released in 1990 after serving 27 years in prison, later becoming South Africa’s first Black president.
Who is Nelson Mandela
For 30 years, it was an outlawed "terrorist" organization; in 1990, it was legalized, eventually winning the country's first democratic election.
What is the African National Congress/ANC?
The scientist who discovered radium and polonium. She was one of the first female scientists ever, and was from Poland.
Who is Marie Curie?
What is the Triangular Slave Trade?
While Spain and Portugal began this practice in the early 1600s, the 18th century saw the British, Dutch, and French join this forced labor commerce
What is the slave trade
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered for the "March on Washington" for these two specific goals.
What are Jobs and Freedom
From an Italian word for a segregated Jewish quarter, this term now describes urban areas where minority groups are confined by a combination of housing discrimination and economic barriers.
What is a ghetto?
On Jan 1, 1863, this U.S President issued the executive order that declared all persons held as slaves within the rebel state or and hence Ford shall be free
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A brutal system of ethnic segregation and discrimination enforced by the white minority from 1948 to the early 1990s. It involved separating people into racial categories and denying non-white citizens from having rights.
What is Apartheid?
Sweeping changes to these federal laws in 1965 and 1970 abolished the national-origins quota system, leading to a rapid population increase of Asian Americans and Hispanics.
What are immigration laws
Economic factors and cultural ties contribute to this phenomenon, where African Americans and recent immigrants remain concentrated in specific city neighborhoods.
What is residential segregation/urban clustering
Programs like "Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment," known by these three initials, aim to fix the fact that very few of South Africa's 500+ wineries are Black-owned.
What is BEE
Located at the lowest point on Earth between Israel and Jordan, this body of water is so salty that no fish or plants can survive in it.
What is the Dead Sea?
A process by which real estate organizations force white landowners to sell their houses at low prices by making them fear that people of color will move there.
What is Blockbusting
Although this year marked the official U.S. ban on importing additional Africans as slaves, an estimated 250,000 people were still illegally trafficked into the country over the next 50 years
What is 1808
Under the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959, the South African government designated this many ethnic "homelands" or Bantustans.
What is ten
Since its population peak in 1950, this racial group in Detroit has seen the most dramatic change, dropping from over 1.5 million residents to fewer than 75,000.
Who are white Americans/White Detroiters?
From 1892 to 1954, over 12 million immigrants pass through this station in New York Harbor often catching their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty nearby
What is Ellis Island?