DEFINITIONS

• Emancipation 


  Freedom
• No autonomy 


  Lack of independence
• Indigenous 


  Local / native people
• Auction 


  Where slaves where bidded and sold
• Scramble 


  Traders setting a fixed price on slaves
• Plantation 


  A farm which only grows one crop
• Resistance 


  Refusing to do something
• dehumanisation 


  Taking away someone’s human rights
• Passive resistance 


  Quietly showing you don’t agree
• Active resistance 


  Actively showing they you dont agree with something , may be violent
• Abolition 


  To get rid of
• Abolitionist 


  Someone who campaigned for the abolishing of slavery
• Revolution 


  A dramatic change in government , society or attitudes
• Pauperism 


  Poverty
• Patented 


  When something is officially invented
• Colonies 


  Areas of land in the world ruled by another county
• Empire 


  An extensive group of countries ruled by a single monarch
• reformative 


  Improve
• Reign 


  When a king or queen are on the throne
• Heretic 


  Someone who believes or teaches something that goes against accepted or official believes
• Compromise 


  To hear both sides and do what’s best for both
• Tolerance 


  How much one person can take of something
• extremist 


  Expressing your ways aggressively
• Symbolism 


  The use of symbols to represent ideas
• Propaganda 


  Information used to promote a particular pov
• Treason 


  Betraying one’s country
• Plot 


  A secret plan to do something against the law
• Scapegoat 


  Someone who is punished even though they didn’t do it
• Royalist 


  King Charles and his followers
• Divine right 


  As someone’s a king or queen they can do whatever they want
• Trigger 


  An event that sparks of another event
• Roundhead 


  Someone that fought for parliament
• Cavalier 


  Someone that fought for the king
• Republic 


  A form of government without a monarchy
• Common wealth 


  An independent country
• Regicide 


  A person who kills the king or monarch
• Bills of mortality 


  A written log of who died each week during the plague
• Searcher 


  A person who would search the dead bodies for the cause of death