Civil Rights

Question 1

Freedom

Answer 1

The right to act, speak or think as one wants

Question 2

Civil rights

Answer 2

The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

Question 3

Slavery

Answer 3

The system of owning slaves

Question 4

Negro

Answer 4

A dated and offensive term for black people

Question 5

Citizen

Answer 5

A person who is legally recognised by the state

Question 6

Descrimination

Answer 6

The prejudicial treatment of different types of people

Question 7

Segregation

Answer 7

The enforced separation of different racial groups

Question 8

State (law)

Answer 8

Applicable to one state in the USA

Question 9

Federal (law)

Answer 9

Applicable to all states in the USA

Question 10

Amendment

Answer 10

An article added to the US constitution

Question 11

Boycott

Answer 11

A refusal to engage in a policy or event as a form of protest

Question 12

Strike

Answer 12

The refusal to work as a form of organised protest

Question 13

Industrialisation

Answer 13

The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale

Question 14

Capitalism

Answer 14

An economic and political system based on private enterprise

Question 15

Communism

Answer 15

An economic and social system in which all property is owned by the community

Question 16

Socialism

Answer 16

A transitional state between capitalism and communism of an economic and social system in which all property is owned by the community (Marxist)

Question 17

Trade union

Answer 17

An organisation of workers by trades or professions formed to protect their rights

Question 18

Nomadic

Answer 18

A person or group of people who are not settled in one place

Question 19

Polygamy

Answer 19

The practice of having more than one wife or husband at the same time

Question 20

Feminism

Answer 20

The belief in establishing equal political, economic and social rights for women

Question 21

Laissez-faire

Answer 21

A belief that government should not regulate the economy

Question 22

Suffrage

Answer 22

The right to vote

Question 23

Judiciary

Answer 23

The judicial authorities of a country

Question 24

Public sector

Answer 24

Business or industries owned and managed by the state

Question 25

Private sector

Answer 25

Businesses or industried owned and managed privately

Question 26

Real wages

Answer 26

What wages can actually buy

Question 27

Radical

Answer 27

Extreme, far reaching and, or, thorough

Question 28

Bipartisan

Answer 28

The cooperation of two opposing political parties

Question 29

Habeas corpus

Answer 29

The right not to be detained unlawfully

Question 30

American dream

Answer 30

The ideal of equality of opportunity allowing all Americans the ability to achieve

Question 31

Melting pot

Answer 31

A place where different people are mixed together

Question 32

Menifest destiny

Answer 32

The belief that Americans had a god given right to settle the continent of America

Question 33

Jim crow

Answer 33

A dated and offensive term for black people and, or, the system of segregation

Question 34

Dejure segregation

Answer 34

The separation of the races by law

Question 35

Defacto segregation

Answer 35

The separation of races by social and economic opportunities and circumstances

Question 36

Sharecropping

Answer 36

A system of farming in which land is rented in return for a share of the crops produced

Question 37

Reconstruction

Answer 37

The period of time immediately after the civil war

Question 38

Scab labour

Answer 38

Workers who are willing to work during strikes

Question 39

Closed shop

Answer 39

A workplace where one union dominates and workers have to belong to that union

Question 40

Blue collar

Answer 40

Manual work or workers

Question 41

White collar

Answer 41

Professional, technical or clerical work or workers

Question 42

Yellow dog contract

Answer 42

Contracts signed by workers agreeing not to join a union

Question 43

Welfare capitalism

Answer 43

A policy in America in the 1920s where employers offered improved working conditions and benefits in return for the establishment of unions under their Direct control

Question 44

Social darwinism

Answer 44

A dated theory that humans are subject to the same darwinism laws of Natural Selection as plants and animals

Question 45

Nativism

Answer 45

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

Question 46

Temperance

Answer 46

The belief that alcohol was a social evil and should be prohibited

Question 47

Ethnocentric

Answer 47

Evaluating other cultures according to preconceptions originating from one's own culture

Question 48

Pan africanism

Answer 48

A belief in the need for unity and solidarity among Africans all over the world

Question 49

Bifurcation

Answer 49

The splitting of the black community into two Economic, and us social and political, groups