Civil Disobedience

The author of 'Civil Disobedience" b asic premise was

• A higher law than civil law demands the obedience of the individual.

• All citizens of a country have the obligation to obey the government.

• The future is bright when there is no government.

• Railroads and technology are the ways of our government and will corrupt us.

Who was the author of Civil Disobedience?

• MLK Jr

• Ghandi

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ethnocentrism

• Means that all people are accepted

• occurs when people of one culture judge another person of another culture in a negative way because they are different

• is a person with a huge ego

nationalism is

• a form of communism

• intense loyalty to one's home town

• intense loyalty to one's nation

Imperialism is

• a nation who practices aid to a nation when they are in trouble

• a strong nation taking over another weaker nation's resources and lands

• a foreign policy embraced by the US

Political leader in India influenced by Thoreau's message in "Civil Disobedience"

• Nehru

• Indira Ghandi

• Ghandi

• Asoka

Think about laws that MLK Jr would say are not just. Can you select the right example?

• Jim Crow

• traffic laws

• laws that stop people from buying alcohol

Transcendentalist thinkers believed in reforming society. What is NOT a reform they would have agreed with?

• Education reform

• abolitionism and civil rights

• women's rights

• Driving laws

When addressing acts of Civil Disobedience, is it up to one person or all of us to work toward justice and fairness?

• One or two

• All of us working together

• One great leader

What is needed to make long term change in society?

• One great leader

• a powerful military

• ideas that persuade people to follow a new way