t2 exam 2

• United Nations


  An international organisation founded in 1945 committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights


  A document that protects the rights of every individual, everywhere by specifying the freedoms and rights that deserve universal protection in order for every individual to live their lives freely, equally and in dignity
• Human Rights


  Rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status
• Civil rights


  Rights that a person obtains by being a legal member of a specific country or nation
• Slave trade


  The transatlantic trading patterns established as during the 17th century which turned people from Africa and other countries, into products to be bought and sold
• Slavery


  A condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons
• Plantation


  An agricultural estate usually worked by resident labour, which is mostly unpaid (slave) labour
• The American North


  The free states that opposed slavery the American Civil War. Before the war these states were more industrialised and did not rely on slave labour
• The American South


  The South is a term used to describe the states which were most dependent on plantations and slavery prior to the American Civil War
• American Civil War


  The four-year war (1861–65) between the American North and 11 Southern over the interconnected issues of slavery, territorial and sectional political control
• Emancipation


  The freeing of someone from slavery
• Jim Crow laws


  Laws that enforced racial segregation in the American South between 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s
• Prejudice


  A preconceived (usually unfavourable) of another person based on that person's perceived personal characteristics
• Segregation


  The practice of requiring separate housing, education and other services for people of colour
• De jure segregation


  Mandated the separation of races by law, and was the form imposed by slave codes before the Civil War and by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws following the war
• De facto segregation


  Situations that did not overtly segregate people by race, but forms of exclusion existed
• White supremacy


  The belief that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups