| A | B |
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| Prejudice | describes when a person has unfair thoughts or beliefs about a particular group of people |
| Discrimination | an unfair manner toward a particular group of people |
| Affirmative Action | designed to helped women and minorities gain access to jobs |
| Glass Ceiling | invisible wall that many women and minorities feel when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder |
| Reverse Racism | efforts made to make up for past racism |
| Refugees | individuals that leave their homes because of war or famine |
| House of Burgesses | form of representative democracy, first government in Jamestown, Virginia |
| Mayflower Compact | agreement signed by the Pilgrims that created direct democracy |
| Toleration Act | Maryland law that created religious freedom |
| Social Contract | proposed by John Locke asserting that a government should provide security however if the contract is not fulfilled it can be broken |
| Albany Plan | presented by Ben Franklin during the French and Indian War encouraging the colonies to unite-remember the cartoon- "Join or Die" |
| Proclamation of 1763 | prohibited the colonists from crossing beyond the Appalachian Mountains |
| Declaration of Independence | July 1776-written by Thomas Jefferson-assesting independence and reason for it |
| Saratoga | colonists defeated the British convincing France to join their efforts |
| Valley Forge | colonial army nearly froze to death due to a lack of supplies |
