Civil Rights - Key Terms + Ideas Review

What is the meaning of the word boycott?

• to urge support

• to refuse to buy, use, attend or deal with as a means of protest

• to buy, use, attend or deal with regardless o protest

• to persuade others to buy, use, or deal with even during protest

Segregation we have studied is based on...

• Separation based on where you live.

• Separation based on race.

• Separation based on income.

• Separation based on school.

Martin Luther King Jr. believed it is okay to use violence and hate to get what you want.

• false

• true

What were " Jim Crow laws"?

• A. Laws that were struck down during Reconstruction.

• B. Laws that forced black people to stay separated from white people.

• C. Laws that allowed employers to pay black workers less than white workers.

• D. Laws that discriminated against migrant workers.

Select the correct defintion of RACISM from the list below.

• A belief that a certain gender of people are by birth and nature superior to others.

• A belief that a certain race of people are by birth and nature superior to others.

• A belief that a certain breed of dogs are by birth and nature superior to others.

• A belief that a certain breed of race horses are by birth and nature superior to others.

Dislike of certain people based on race, gender, or other characteristics.

• racism

• prejudice

• discrimination

• civil disobedience

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Breaking a law thought to be unfair and being willing to go to jail.

• desegregation

• civil disobedience

• civil rights movement

• nonviolent protest

Treating one group of people unfairly on the basis of race, gender, or some other factor.

• prejudice

• discrimination

• prejudice

• racism

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

Bringing people of different groups together in society or in an organization.

• integration

• nonviolent protest

• civil rights movement

• affirmative action

The NAACP mostly focused on what during the Civil Rights Movement?

• Legal Cases

• Protests

• Schools

• Jobs