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25 Cards in this Set
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Rosa Parks
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civil rights activist whose arrest led to the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott
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plantation
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large farm where cash crops are grown
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segregation
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the practice of setting one group apart from another by law
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Sequoyah
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Cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee language
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syllabary
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a system of writing in which each syllable of a word is represented by a symbol
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Trial of Tears
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the forced movement of Cherokee and other Native Americans to what is now Oklahoma in 1838
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Harriet Tubman
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"Conductor" on the Underground Railroad who escaped slavery and made 19 trips to slave states to free others
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Underground Railroad
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a group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom along secret routes before and during the Civil War
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Union
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the states that remained in the United States after the Confederacy formed
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Williamsburg
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the capitol of the Virginia colony in the 1700s
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abolition
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ending completely; often used in reference to slavery
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apartheid
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the government policy of strict and unequal segregation of races as was practiced in South Africa until the 1990s
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boycott
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the act of joining with other people in refusing to buy or use a company's product or service
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civil rights
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the rights of people to be treated equally under the law
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Civil War
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the war in the US between the Union of the north and the Confederacy of the south
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colony
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a place that is ruled by a distant country
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Confederacy
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the government formed by eleven southern states that seceeded from the US in 1860
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council
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a group fo people who meet to talk and make decisions
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Declaration of Independence
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document stating colonists wish to be free from England's rule; approved July 4, 1776
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Emancipation Proclamation
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the announcement by President Lincoln in 1863 that all slaves living in the Confederate states were free
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House of Burgesses
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group of Virginia citizens who made laws for the colony
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Thomas Jefferson
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member of House of Burgesses who drafted the Declaration of Independence; became the third president of the US
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MArtin Luther King, Jr.
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civil rights leader who worked to gain equal rights for African-Americans and others in the 1950s and 1960s
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Abraham Lincoln
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congressman from Illinois who became the 16th president; led the Union during the Civil War
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Nelson Mandela
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SOuth African civil rights leader who became president of South Africa in 1994
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