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Define Three-Fifths Compromise.
Enslaved people counted as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation.
Define Fugitive Slave Clause.
Required states to return escaped enslaved people to their enslavers.
What are Slave Codes?
Laws defining enslaved people as property and denying basic rights.
Define manumission.
The act of an enslaver freeing their enslaved people.
How do the Louisiana Slave Code and South Carolina Slave Code compare?
Louisiana: Focused on religious control and expulsion of Jews. South Carolina: Focused on restricting movement, literacy, and assembly.
Compare the Three-Fifths Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Clause.
Three-Fifths: Increased political power of slave states. Fugitive Slave Clause: Made the entire nation complicit in slavery.
Compare De jure segregation and De facto segregation.
De jure segregation: segregation by law. De facto segregation: segregation by custom or practice.
Compare Assimilation and Accommodation.
Assimilation: the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. Accommodation: mutual adjustment between persons or groups, especially in order to remove conflict.
Compare Civil Disobedience and armed resistance.
Civil Disobedience: nonviolent resistance to unjust laws. Armed resistance: using violence to fight against oppression.
Compare Booker T. Washington's and W.E.B. Du Bois's approaches to racial uplift.
Washington: vocational training and economic self-reliance. Du Bois: higher education and fighting for civil rights.
Compare the NAACP and the Black Panther Party.
NAACP: legal and political action for civil rights. Black Panther Party: Black power, community programs, and self-defense.
Compare the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement.
Civil Rights Movement: integration and equality through nonviolence. Black Power Movement: Black pride, self-determination, and empowerment.
Compare Affirmative Action and Reparations.
Affirmative Action: policies to address past and present discrimination. Reparations: compensation for past injustices.
Compare Individual Racism and Systemic Racism.
Individual Racism: prejudice or discrimination based on race by an individual. Systemic Racism: policies and practices that perpetuate racial inequality.
Define Slave Codes.
Sets of laws defining enslaved people as property, designed to control and oppress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Enslaved people counted as ⅗ of a person for representation and taxation, boosting slaveholding states' power.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
Required states to return escaped enslaved people to their enslavers, even in free states.
Define Code Noir.
Slave code in French colonies aimed to maintain white supremacy.
Define Código Negro.
Slave code in Spanish colonies aimed to maintain white supremacy.
Define Manumission.
The act of an owner freeing their enslaved people.
Define Chattel Slavery.
A system where enslaved people are legally defined as property.
Define Antebellum.
The period before the Civil War (1815-1860) characterized by growing sectionalism over slavery.
What is racial hierarchy?
A system of stratification based on perceived racial differences, granting privileges to some groups while denying them to others.
Define Abolitionism.
A movement to end slavery.