GQ1 Vocabulary Quiz

What is an ACTIVIST?

• A form of protest in which people sit down and refuse to move.

• The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others

• Anyone who takes part in action to create political or social change.

The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities,

especially as a form of discrimination.

What is SUFFRAGE?

• The right or privilege to vote, especially in a political election

• The act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, especially to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself

• the intermixing of people or groups previously segregated

The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination

• Civil Rights

• Integration

• Sit-In

• Boycott

What is a BOYCOTT?

• violation of another’s rights or of what is right; lack of justice

• The act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, especially to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself

• When activists stop using something or buying something until an unfair policy is changed.

Treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit.

What is PREJUDICE?

• The right or privilege to vote, especially in a political election

• A form of protest in which people sit down and refuse to move.

• Unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, ethnic, cultural, or national group.

A form of protest in which people sit down and refuse to move.

What is RACISM?

• The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others

• The act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, especially to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself

• the intermixing of people or groups previously segregated

the intermixing of people or groups previously segregated