History Chapter 11 Vocabulary

Match the following

• Form of protest that does not use violence

• Segregation

• Separation of people of different races

• Passive Resistance

• To show or express strong dissagreement with or disapproval of something.

• Sit In

• Rights guaranteed by all US citizens by the constitution.

• Protest

• Act of sitting in seats or on the floor as a means of organized protest

• Civil Rights

Match the following

• The right of US citizens to vote in any primary election for president and vice president.

• 24th Amendment

• Laws passed in the south after reconstruction forcing the segregation of blacks and whites.

• Jim Crow

• Prohibits discrimination on the base of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Signed by Lyndon Johnson, Outlaws discriminatory voting practices including literary tests

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under

• Plessy v Ferguson

The movement of organized efforts by African Americans to end racial segregation and gain equal rights under the law.

• NAACP

• Civil Rights Movement

• Protest

• Activist

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Founded in 1909 and is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization.

• NAACP

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sit Ins

• 24th Amendment

Match the following

• First African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School

• Activist

• To show or express strong disagreement wtih or disapproval of something.

• Protest

• When a person is treated negatively or when a person's dignity is violated.

• Discrimination

• Bus trips through the south in 1961 taken by whites and African American civil rights activists.

• Little Rock 9

• One who advocates/ supports strong actions (public protests) in support or opposition to one side

• Freedom Rides

Match the following

• To form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole.

• Integration

• Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation under separate by equal doctrine

• Brown v Board of Education

• March that took place from Selma to Montgomery to protest blocking African American rights to vote

• Racism

• The practice of discriminating against people based on race or national origin.

• Plesey V. Ferguson

• 1954 Supreme court case that ruled that segregation in school was unconstitutional

• Selma March

A US civil rights organized by students who sought to coordinate youth led non-violent direct action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism.

• Little Rock 9

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committe

  (SNVCC)

• Sit Ins

Match the following

• Separation of people of different races.

• John F Kennedy

• A civil rights protest which African Americans refused to ride buses to protest segregated seats

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Movement by African Americans to end segregation and gain equal rights.

• Civil Rights Movement

• Vice President to JFK and became president after his assassination

• Lyndon B Johnson

• 35 President. Youngest person to ever become President and was assassinated in 1963

• Segregation