Government for the People

What is the Short Read 1 -- Working Together about?

• People working together to build a cement wall to stop a flood in Fargo, North Dakota.

• People working together to save animals from a flood in Fargo, North Dakota.

• People working together to fill sandbags to stop a flood in Fargo, North Dakota

• People working together to help women get the right to vote in Fargo, North Dakota

What year did women finally win the right to vote?

• 1920

• 1930

• 1965

• 2000

What were women and men called who supported the right for women to vote?

• marchers

• protesters

• Alice Paul

• suffragist

Who refused to give up their seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

What unfair laws said it was ok for African Americans to be segregated.

• Joe Blackbird laws

• Jim Sparrow laws

• Jim Crow laws

• Joe Crow laws

What did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believe?

• Peaceful protest was the way to make change.

• That the one-day bus boycott was a good idea.

• That the bus boycott should be longer.

• All of the above are correct.

What group did Ceasar Chavez start that worked to help farmworker?

• National Farm Workers Association (NFWA)

• National Fruit Workers Association (NFWA)

• National Friendship Workers Association (NFWA)

• National Food Workers Association (NFWA)

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 14th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

What did Ceasar Chavez do for 25 days to peacefully protest?

• Eat only grapes and lettuce

• Went on a hunger strike and did not eat.

• Walked across California

• Work on a farm

Why do people participate in government?

• They participate to change unfair laws.

• They participate because it is their right and responsibility.

• They participate to help others.

• All of the above