Civil Rights Movement/Cesar Chavez Review

What is a migrant worker?

• Someone who loves to eat

• Someone who travels from place to place to work

• Someone who likes to color

To earn money, Cesar Chavez and his family became

• migrant workers

• teachers

• lawyers

What is a union?

• An organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their work

• A group of people who do the exact same job

• An old term for "school"

• A group of politicians

Why did Cesar Chavez start a union?

• to help migrant farm workers

• to finish school

• to learn how to farm

Cesar Chavez's motto was

• Si se puede

• Blanca Flor

Why did Cesar Chavez start a union?

• Farm workers were not treated fairly

• He understood the lives of farm workers

• He family was poor

• He was running for President

What was the major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's?

• To end racial segregation

• to reform prison conditions

• to reduce prejudice against Mexican-American immigrants

• to improve living conditions for Native Americans

The movements led by Dr. King and Cesar Chavez were similar in that both -

• used civil disobedience to bring about social change

• supported attempts to overthrow the government

• boycotted agricultural crops

• were elected to national political office

7) What organization did Cesar Chavez create and what did it fight for?

• Brown Berets; Black Power

• United Farm Workers; better pay and working conditions for migrant farmers

• Black Panthers: Black power movement and defense of black communities

• American Communist Party: Inspire communist revolution in America

4) What was the result of Brown v Board of Education?

• Women have a right to vote

• Minorities have to be on juries

• Citizens have few rights when in school

• Segregation in schools is unconstitutional