A group of people who meet to talk and make
decisions
Council
The ending of slavery
Abolition
The act of joining with other people in
refusing to buy or use a company’s product
or service
boycott
The rights of people to be treated equally
under the law
Civil rights
The war in the United States between the
Union states of the north and the
Confederate states of the south
Civil War
The government formed by 11 Southern states
that seceded from the United States
Confederacy
Gray states formed
Confederacy
A document that stated the colonies should be
free of English Rule
Declaration of
Independence
The announcement by President Lincoln in
1863 that all enslaved people living in
Confederate states were free
Emancipation
Proclamation
An elected group of citizens who made laws for
the Virginia colony beginning in 1619
House of Burgesses
A large farm where cash crops were grown
Plantation
The practice of setting one group apart
from another by law
Segregation
A system of writing in which each syllable of a
word is represented by a symbol
Syllabary
A segregated area where blacks in South Africa
were forced to live under apartheid
Township
The forced movement of Cherokee and some
other Native Americans to what is now
Oklahoma in 1838
Trail of Tears
A group of people who helped slaves escape to
freedom along secret routes before and during
the Civil War
Underground Railroad
The states that remained in the United States
after the Confederacy formed
Union
Blue states formed the union