Civil Rights Introductory Vocabulary

What is definition of a primary source?

• Anything used or created by someone who was there

• Anything used or created by someone who wasn't there

• Encyclopedia

• Interview with an expert

What is an example of a primary source?

• Photographs taken at the event

• Newspaper articles written during that time

• Interviews, diaries, letters from people who were there

• all of them

What is the definition of a secondary source?

• Interviews, diaries, letters from people who were there

• Physical objects from that time

• Based on many facts from primary sources; not based on the writer being there

• Audio or news footage taken at that time

What is the definition of history?

• stories about the past

• a person who researches the past

• Civil Rights

• The Spanish- American War

What is the definition of historian?

• a vegetable

• person who researches stories of the past

• a British soldier

• Mr. Grimm

What was the Civil Rights movement?

• racists

• Jim Crow Laws

• People fought for African American people to have the same civil rights as white people

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A decade lasts how many years?

• 100 years

• 200 years

• 20 years

• 10 years

A century lasts how long?

• 100 years

• 200 years

• 20 years

• 10 years

What is an Era?

• A defined amount of time

• a period of time where someone some thing or event is important

• A batting average

• estimated time of arrival

What is a generation?

• a group of people born around the same time

• same as an ancestor

• a group of plants

• a nation