Chapter 12-The Fight for Rights

What does “suffrage” mean?

• The right to own property

• To suffer through something

• The right to vote

• To try over and over again

Why is it important to learn about the struggle for workers' rights?

• It helps you prepare to work.

• It allows you to know about the past.

• It shows you how to create needed change in the work place.

• It demonstrates how much better life for workers is now.

• It allows you to know why we have the rights we do today.

Which of the following years is the beginning of the progressive era?

• Late 1700s

• Early 1600s

• Late 1800s

• Late 1900s

How did the accomplishments of the Progressive Era affect the lives of workers in the United States?

• It helped immigrants learn English.

• It helped people begin to fight for equal rights.

• It allowed laws that improved workers’ lives and working conditions.

• It gave child labor a larger foothold.

Which is the correct definition of civil rights?

• Rights all citizens should have under the US Constitution.

• Rights most citizens should have under the US Constitution.

• Rights for citizens who haven’t committed a crime under the US Constitution.

• Rights for people in prison under the US Constitution.

Why did Jim Crow Laws come into effect in the US South?

• The Confederacy won the Civil War.

• The South was angry about the Reconstruction period, so they passed the Jim Crow Laws to get back at the North.

•  The South wanted to honor a man called Jim Crow.

• The South was angry about the Reconstruction period, so they passed the Jim Crow Laws to reestablish the white southerners superiority.

What makes Migration different from Immigration?

• Migration is moving to a new country from a different country, immigration is moving around in the same country.

• Immigration is moving to a new house in the same neighborhood, migration is moving to a different neighborhood.

• Immigration is moving to a new country from a different country, migration is moving around in the same country.

• Migration is moving to a new city from a different city, immigration is moving around in the same city.

Why did many African Americans migrate to the North?

• Better friends.

• Their family lives there.

• They wanted better work and better lives.

• To escape the white southerners.

Which 2 people were advocates for African American civil rights?

• Booker T. Washington

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Susan B. Anthony

• Ida Wells-Barnett

Write a sentence that describes what life would be like if you were an African American who participated in the Great Migration.