Across
- 1. discrimination against people based on race; the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another
- 3. to succeed in dealing with a problem or difficulty
- 5. the act of getting rid of a system, practice or institution, such as slavery
- 7. the action or state of setting someone/something apart from others
- 10. the state of being extremely poor
- 12. someone (such as a servant) who is bound by a legal agreement, contract, or document, particularly for labor, in which the conditions favor the boss over the worker
- 14. a genre of music that is developed during slavery, encompassing the work songs, and plantation songs that evolved into the blues and gospel songs
- 15. a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s, channeling the sorrow and struggles of former slaves
- 16. rights the rights of citizens to political and social freedom
- 17. the system of owning people and forcing them to work
Down
- 2. the pre-Civil War boundary that divided slave states to the south and free-soil states in the north. The line bordered Pennsylvania and Maryland along with the Ohio River.
- 4. the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.
- 6. the ability or willingness to allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with, without interference
- 7. to have difficulty handling or coping with.
- 8. person or promotes or defends something
- 9. the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange, particularly of people not from the same country
- 11. having preconceived opinions that are not based on reason or actual experience
- 13. the allocation of status, resources, treatment, rights or opportunities so that everyone has access to the same outcome
- 15. unfair prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another
- 18. when individuals or groups of people are given the same status, resources, treatment, rights or opportunities as others
