Electronic Devices and Black History Vocabulary

Electronic Devices

Camcorder

Cordless Phone

Desktop Computer

Digital Camera

DVD Player

Games Console

Handheld Games Console

Hi-Fi

Laptop Computer

Netbook

Mobile Phone

Remote Control

Widescreen Television

Computing

Base Unit

Monitor

Printer

Router

Scanner

Speakers

Home Appliances

Microwave

Mobile Phone

Stereo

Video Recorder

Cooker

Fridge

Cassette Player

Freezer

Hairdryer

Washing Machine

Radio

TV

Technology

Fax Machine

CD-ROM

Disc

Printer

Smart Card

Screen

Vocabulary: Black History

African-American

Black American of African descent

Slaves

People who are owned and forced to work by someone else

Discrimination

Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

Prejudice

An opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought

Civil Rights

Human rights

Justice

The administration of law

Integration

The inclusion of people of all races on an equal basis into society

Equality

Having the same conditions and opportunities as everyone else

Diversity

Different people/cultures

Apartheid

The separation of black and white people in South Africa

Segregation

The division of a place, thing, or service along racial lines

Boycott

To stop using a product or patronizing a business in order to protest or to apply pressure so that the business will change its policies

Agent

A person who helped the escaping slave find the railroad.

Station

A hiding place, often a home or church

Conductor

A person who guided the escaping slaves to the next stop

Station Master

A person who hid escaping slaves in his home

Timeline of Black History in the United States

1619 First African slaves arrive in Jamestown on the Dutch ship White Lion

1776 Declaration of Independence

1787 Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory but not in the Constitution (the demand in slaves grows for the cotton industry in the south)

1808 United States bans importation of slaves

1820 The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri (the abolitionist movement grows all over the country)

1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective leaders of the Underground Railroad

1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is published

1861 The Confederacy is founded when the Deep South secedes. The Civil War begins against the Union

1863 President Lincoln issues The Emancipation Proclamation, a proclamation declaring that “all persons held as slaves within the Confederate states are and henceforward shall be free”.

1865 The Civil War ends and the 13th Amendment prohibits slavery in the United States