Vocabulary
This term defines socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in society based on need.
What is communism?
Royal governor who faced opposition from the Regulators.
Who is William Tryon?
Individuals who fought to end slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
Natural rights: Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The 35th U.S President who faced a number of foreign crises.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Former enslaved woman who wrote about her experiences and fought for abolition.
Women and men who campaigned for women's right to vote.
Who are Suffragists?
Separation of powers, checks and balances
What is the US Constitution?
Outlawed segregation and discrimination.
American activist in the civil rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Pushed for education reform and racial integration in North Carolina.
Groups that fought for workers' rights, fair wages, and safe conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
This document guarantees freedoms: speech, religion, fair trials.
First public university in the US.
What is UNC-Chapel Hill?
This term aims to guarantee equal rights for all citizens.
What is Equal Rights Amendment?
A group of backcountry farmers who opposed colonial corruption and taxation.
Who are the Regulators?
NAACP, Equal Rights organizations.
Popular sovereignty, rule of law and individual rights are known as this type of principle.
Required school desegregation, leading to resistance but eventual integration in NC.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is Space Race?
Protestors and leaders who fought for desegregation and equal rights.
Led sit-ins and protests.
First official call for independence from Britain.
Which five events created a time of innovation and change in the nation?
What is the American Revolution, Civil War & Reconstruction, Industrial Revolution, New Deal & Great Society Programs, and Civil Rights Era.