Fighting for a Cause- Vocabulary Review

Rights guaranteed by a nation's government to all its citizens.

• Civil Rights

• Discrimination

• Courage

An act of unfair or unjust treatment based on color of skin, religion, etc.

• Proud

• Discrimination

• Boycott

Responding without physical action.

• Suffrage

• Obstacles

• Nonviolence

The right to vote.

• Suffrage

• Sit-ins

• Civil Rights

The wife of the president.

• Statue of Liberty

• First Lady

• Mary Pickersgill

Rights that are believed to belong to everyone, like a placed to live, food, education, etc.

• Obstacles

• Migrant workers

• Human Rights

When a group of people come together and refuse to do business in order to show great disapproval.

• Boycott

• Courage

• Suffrage

Keeping groups separate due to race.

• Segregation

• Suffrage

• Courage

Nonviolent protests involving a person, or people, sitting down.

• Discrimination

• Nonviolence

• Sit-ins

People who travel from one area to another, usually looking for work.

• Migrant workers

• Suffrage

• Slavery