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| 14680787564 | bias | prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. | 0 | |
| 14680789211 | caste | a rigid and hereditary social class | 1 | |
| 14680790509 | color blindness | refers to the state where it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. | 2 | |
| 14680801075 | hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 3 | |
| 14680802283 | Jim Crow | Laws implemented after the U.S. Civil War to legally enforce segregation, particularly in the South, after the end of slavery. | 4 | |
| 14680804747 | mass incarceration | A term used to describe a situation in which a very high proportion of people are held in prisons. It has been used to describe developments in the American criminal justice system over the past 30 years. | 5 | |
| 14680806530 | stereotype | a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. | 6 | |
| 14680808378 | stigma | a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person. | 7 | |
| 14680811494 | complicit | involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing | 8 | |
| 14680814039 | deindustrialization | The cumulative and sustained decline in the contribution of manufacturing to a national economy. | 9 | |
| 14680817918 | fear mongering | Use of fear to influence the opinions and actions of others | 10 | |
| 14680819164 | imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | 11 | |
| 14680821918 | mobilize | to coordinate; to move people or things around for a purpose | 12 | |
| 14680824623 | resentment | a feeling of anger or displeasure about someone or something unfair | 13 | |
| 14680826705 | rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. | 14 | |
| 14680827430 | sanitize | make clean and hygienic. | 15 | |
| 14680828774 | sensationalize | present information about (something) in a way that provokes public interest and excitement, at the expense of accuracy | 16 | |
| 14680830369 | wittingly | With knowledge and by design. | 17 | |
| 14680833793 | antebellum | Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | 18 | |
| 14680835556 | bondsmen | men hired to work for others | 19 | |
| 14680836660 | chattel slavery | A chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved. Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold. | 20 | |
| 14680838275 | emancipation | the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation. | 21 | |
| 14680839601 | enslavement | the state of being owned and controlled by another person | 22 | |
| 14680841038 | federalism | A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments | 23 | |
| 14680843391 | indentured servitude | A contractual system in which someone sells his or her body (services) for a specified period of time in an arrangement very close to slavery, except that it is voluntary entered into. | 24 | |
| 14680845311 | insurrection | Rebellion or revolt against a government or similarly established authority | 25 | |
| 14680848124 | oppression | the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority | 26 | |
| 14680849432 | plantation | large estate farmed by many workers | 27 | |
| 14680852255 | Reconstruction Era | (1865-1877) Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union; Southern resentment of this era lasted well into the twentieth century. | 28 | |
| 14680854457 | segregation | Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences | 29 |
