Key Terms
Prejudice or discrimination especially within a racial or ethnic group favoring people with lighter skin over those with darker skin
What is Colorism
The descendants of the original inhabitants of North America and South America
Who are Native Americans
A community made of one or several family groups sharing a common culture.
What is a Tribe
We have ___#___ sports at Willie Brown middle school
What is Five
A practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance.
What is Colonialism
Ancient South American civilization
Who are the Aztecs
Unfair laws towards African Americans in the early 1900s
What are Jim Crow laws?
How many years are a century
What is 100 years
Political strategy, practice, state policy, or advocacy that consists in extending power by territorial acquisition or by extending political and economic control outward over other areas
What is Imperialism
Established political and economic control (colonized) over their new colonies in South America, controlling the native people there.
Who are the Spaniards
The name given to the way in which European countries brought nearly all of this continent under their control as part of their separate empires
What is the Scramble for Africa
How many weeks is Winter Break for 2023?
What is Three weeks
A form of bias that occurs automatically and unintentionally, that nevertheless affects judgments, decisions, and behaviors
What is Implicit Bias
She was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
Who is Claduette Colvin
A person under contract to work for another over a period of time.
Who is an Indentured Servant
This person will appear on the what dollar bill by 2030
Who is Harriet Tubman and what is a Twenty dollar bill
An inability to see the difference between races of people
What is Color-blindness
A person who advocated or supported ending slavery
What is an Abolitionist
a category, perception or idea created and developed by society and they applied to individuals or groups
What is a social construct
A person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area.
What is a Settler?