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100

Belief that physical attributes = Cultural and social traits within a hierarchy.  Act of subordination based on physical attributes.

What is Racisms ?


100

Acquiring political control over another country, occupying and exploiting

What is Colonialism?

100

1492 and 1501

What is Catholic Church expelled or forced conversion of Jews by way of royal decree.

100

Work 4 - 7 years to pay off debt of travel to America.

Indentured Servitude

100

Forced displacements of 70,000 and killings of tens of thousands of N.A. of Georgia. Lasted 30 yrs.

What is Indian Removal Act of 1830?

200

A social construction definition of those sharing physical and cultural traits and common ancestry. 

What is Race?

200

Use of science or pseudoscience to rationalize or reproduce racial inequality.

What is Scientific Racism?

200

Savage, Sexually Immoral and resistant to civilizing forces

What is centuries old English view of Irish

200

1660 Part of Slave Code: Masters not allowed to free slaves; creating life long servitude.

Prohibition of Manumission

200

Indian removal act inc Illinoise,Florida, Ohio tribes.

Trail of Tears

300

Idea or way of seeing others based on social perceptions.

What is Social Construction?

300

Practice of controlled breeding to control desirable characteristics in a population.

What is eugenics?

300

1619

What is first African slaves arrive in Jamestown

300

1676- Poor whites and African slaves burn Jamestown. Elites divide black/White alliances.

Bacon's Rebellion

300

1735 Americanus, Asiaticus, Africanus, Europaenus using skin color and moral traits to classify

what is European Taxonomies ?

400

Group identities based on shared history, culture and kinship. Self Imposed.

What is Ethnicities?

400

Mass killing of particular ethnic or racial group.

What is Genocide ?

400

1865

Slavery is abolished in the US

400

1863 Freed slaves in rebel states of the Confederacy

Emancipation Proclamation

400

Making intelligence into a scientific concept by measuring it.

What is Reification?

500

Set of principals and ideas that benefit the dominant group.

What is Ideology?

500

Laws from1600's defining differences between African Slaves and European indentured servants.

What are Slave Codes?

500

1676

What is Bacons Rebellion?

500

This indigenous population was able to escape and too susuptable to New World illness to be enslaved.

What are Native Americans ?

500

Hitlers Bible written by US chairman of committee of selective immigration.

The Passing of the Great Race