CommonLit Courageous Choices Vocab Set 2

A(n) _____________ is someone who actively works to promote social or political change.

• Activist
• Associate
• Oppression
• Segregate
• Spontaneous

Which of the following words means to separate or set apart based on race or ethnicity?

• Oppression
• Spontaneous
• Controversy
• Segregate
• Associate

A(n) _____________ is a person who works with another person or group in a subordinate position.

• Activist
• Associate
• Segregate
• Oppression
• Spontaneous

_____________ is a topic that people have different opinions about and often leads to heated arguments.

• Activist
• Segregate
• Controversy
• Oppression
• Spontaneous

_____________ refers to a situation in which a person or group is treated unfairly and cruelly and denied basic human rights.

• Oppression
• Spontaneous
• Controversy
• Segregate
• Associate

Which of the following words means happening or arising naturally and without external cause?

• Associate
• Segregate
• Oppression
• Spontaneous
• Activist

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a momentin history when _____________ fought against segregation and discrimination.

• Spontaneous
• Associates
• Oppression
• Activists
• Segregationists

Which of the following words means to have complete control or power over someone or something, often in a cruel or unjust way?

• Oppression
• Spontaneous
• Associate
• Segregate
• Controversy

_____________ is the act of protesting or objecting to something in a public way.

• Associate
• Activism
• Controversial
• Oppressive
• Segregate

The Jim Crow laws were a set of state and local laws in the United States that enforced racial _____________, keeping Black people separated from White people in public places like schools and restaurants.

• Oppression
• Spontaneous
• Controversy
• Association
• Segregation