Jim Crow - KKK - Resistance

Racism

Belief that one race is superior to another

fugitive

(n.) one who flees or runs away; (adj.) fleeting, lasting a very short time; wandering; difficult to grasp

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated.

Atlantic Slave Trade

16th- 19th centuries. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas.

American Civil War

1861-1865: War between North (union states) and South (confederate states) over slavery and succeeding.

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, declared that all slaves in the confederate states free

Slavery

A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.

Triangular Trade

A three-way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

13th Amendment (1865)

Abolition of slavery w/o compensation for slave-owners

Abolitionist Movement

An international movement that 1780-1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world.

Disenfranchisement

Condition of being deprived of the right to vote

14th Amendment

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Freedmen

Enslaved people who had been freed by the Civil War

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

International Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States.

Black Codes

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

Jim Crow Laws

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Union Leagues

Secretive men's clubs during the American Civil War to promote loyalty to the United States, the policies of Abraham Lincoln, and to combat Democrats.

Segregation

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Vigilantism

The act of enforcement, punishment etc. without legal authority

Abolition

The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.

White League

The paramilitary terrorist organization intimidated freedmen into not voting and politically organizing.

separate but equal doctrine

The rule that that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate facilities of the same quality.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

an organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups such as Blacks, Jews, Latinos...

bigotry

intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

persecution

mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

Discrimination

prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment

prominent

standing out so as to be easily seen; important, well-known

Reconstruction

the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union, relative peace and equality under the law.

Confederate States of America

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861