Rights and Freedoms definitions Flashcards
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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
Inalienable
Something that cannot be taken or given away from the owner
The 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
