Documented Rights - Vocabulary List

Vocabulary List

Overall Vocabulary:
Federal court, economic equality, district court, slave, cargo, manifest, customs, assimilation, bill of sale, plantation, future increase, segregation, precedent, interracial, due process, oppression, inalienable, unalienable.

Emancipation Proclamation
Proclamation, to wit, repress, aforesaid, countervailing testimony, executive government, garrison (verb), affixed
Certificate, U.S. v. Slaves of the Syrena, May 12, 1820
Real Armada, enrolls (noun)
Travel Document for the Schooner Syrena, 1817
Province, First Alcade
Cinque Addressing his Compatriots, on board the Spanish Schooner Amistad, 26. Aug. 1839
Caribbean plantation
Plea to the Jurisdiction of Cinque (Singhe Pieh) and Others, August 21, 1839
Ruinous injustice, plea, libel, brig, salvage, process of court, aforesaid, respondents, protestations, surmised, libellant, confederating, asylum, meritorious act, jurisdiction, “under color of which”
Warrant for Habeas Corpus, Schooner Amistad, September 21, 1939
[sic], adjudge, writ, habeas corpus
Petition by John Hill Wheeler, July 18, 1855
Detained, abide
Writ of Habeas Corpus, July 19, 1855
Abolitionist, cause celebre, Writ of Habeas Corpus
Photograph, Passmore Williamson in Mayamensing Prison, 1855
Legal technicality
Dowry Gift of Slaves, June 11, 1773
Dowry, future increase, intermarriage, acknowledged, granted, bargained, division of the estate, to witt, moiety, allotted, aforesaid, survivor, purporting, sole/ covert status, heir at law, devised, covenant

Section Panel
“Jim Crow” laws
Letter from Frederick Douglass to the Secretary of State, June 25, 1889
Minister Resident, Counsel General, potent, thither, tendered, “suit your convenience”
List of Passengers for Barque Azor bound to Monrovia, April 20, 1878
Emigrants, maiden voyage
Master’s Oath, Barque Azor, April 20, 1878
Affirm, annexed, conveyance, synopsis, conspicuous
Request for Compensation, ca. 1898
“Annexed portion,” “prosecution and allowance”
Defining Rights (Story Panel)
Peonage, sharecropping, eroded individual rights, curtailed rights
Wong Kim Ark’s Departure Statement, November 5, 1894
Illegal immigrant, Chinese Exclusion Act, “set my hand,” affixed, annexed instrument
Wong Kim Ark’s Discharge, January 3, 1896
Jurisdiction

Section Panel
Assimilate, social inequalities
Record of Conviction, June 28, 1873 (facsimile)
Prayed, “upon the said process,” arraigned, indictment, issue joined, disposal, empanelled
Petition for Woman Suffrage, 1877 (facsimile)
Disenfranchising, elective franchise
Letter from Indian Affairs Commissioner Charles Burke, April 7, 1926
Peyote
Mission Indian Federation Constitution, ca. 1922
Non-sectarian
Receipt and Full Satisfaction of Judgment, July 30, 1944
Allotment, assimilation, plaintiff, acknowledged
Registration Affidavit of Alien Enemy, February 8, 1918
Enemy alien
Bill of Complaint, January 7, 1921
Petition for naturalization
Speech by Eugene V. Debs, June 16, 1918
Yonder, workhouse, prudent, sycophant, four-square, Hoosier state, capitalist press, notwithstanding
Brochure, Relocating a People, February 1, 1943
Evacuee, relocation
Handbill in Japanese and English Translation, United States v. George Fujii, circa 1943
Selective service, handbills, sedition, relocation, internment, drafted, Jap, Caucasian
Official Logbook, St. George Island, June 16-29, 1942
Invasion, leveled, evacuation, mined, TNT, stanchioned, outboard engines, enroute, bed-pan
Petition Protesting Conditions at Pribilof Evacuation Camp, October 10, 1942
Mess house, evacuee camp, grub

Photograph, Martin Luther King in Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963
Hallmark
Booklet, The Montgomery Improvement Association, circa 1960
Foray, boycott, demonstrations, negate, Negro, state apparatus, protagonists, sit-ins, workshops, seminars, non-violent resistance, loitering, intimidation, perjury, “behead this affirmative movement,” demoralize, moral support, re-affirmation
Statement, Hernandez v. Corpus Christi, December 18, 1956
Stereotyped, latin child, appellees, brief (noun), prejudice (legal term)
Indictment, U.S. v. Junius Irving Scales, November 18, 1954
Indictment, Grand Jury
General Court Martial Orders, August 23, 1944
Insubordination, general court-martial, arraigned, contemptuously, insolent, impertinent, receiving room
Request for Retirement from Active Duty, August 25, 1944
“Color line,” acquitted, outfit (Army term)
Complaint, Ella Fitzgerald et al v. Pan American, December 23, 1954
Discrimination, malicious, plaintiff, defendant
Photograph, Lenny Bruce, 1961
Obscenity, censorship, harassment
Appeal Request from Lenny Bruce, December 15, 1964
Plaintiff, appeal, denying motion

Section Panel
“equal protection clause,” catalyst
Judgment, Brown v. Board of Education, May 31, 1955 (facsimile)
Racially nondiscriminatory, counsel, transcript, adjudged, consideration, remanded, proceedings, orders, decrees
Complaint, Briggs v. Elliot, December 19, 1950
Infant (legal term), curricula, segregation, “next friend,” “body corporate, plaintiffs, defendants, declaratory judgment, to wit, Negroes, segregated
Dissenting Opinion, Briggs .v Elliot, June 21, 1951
Equalize, Negro, segregation, color prejudice, ideologies, eradicate, irrespective, adjudication, unerringly, per se, unequivocally, metaphor, suppression, pigmentation, concur, dissent
Judgment, Belton .v Gebhart, May 31, 1955
Infant (legal term), ad litem, Writ of Certiorari, counsel, plaintiffs, remanded, transcript of record, racially nondiscriminatory
Opinion on Writ of Certiorari, Bolling v. Sharpe, May 31, 1955 (facsimile)
Racially nondiscriminatory, Writ of Certiorari, counsel, remanded
Plaintiffs Exhibit, Davis v. Prince Edward Co., May 1956
Segregation, invoked, bulwark, animosities
Opinion, Brown v. Board, August 31, 1951
Substantial discrimination, plaintiffs, defendants