Civil Rights

The basic right to be free from unequal treatment based on certain characteristics (race, gender, disability, etc.) in settings such as employment and housing is called

• Cold War

• Terroism

• Civil Rights

Choose 2 reasons for the Civil Rights Movement

• African Americans were not allowed to register to vote and other Jim Crow Laws

• The Soviet Union was building up arms

• Disabled Americans did not have equal access to school or to vote

• The Twin Towers were bombed

Choose 2 ways people peacefully protested during the Civil Rights Era

• Making bomb threats

• Bus boycott

• Detroit Riot

• March on Washington

This man was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement for African American rights

• Lyndon Johnson

• Cesar Chavez

• Martin Luther King Jr.

This woman began the bus boycott in Montgomery, AL

• Rosa Parks

• Rosie the Riveter

• Susan B. Anthony

These laws were passed to stop segregation and discrimination

• smoking bans

• Jim Crow

• Affirmative Action

Women in the United States have had to fight for the right for all of the following except

• the right to vote

• the right to be mother

• equal pay for equal work

• the right to work when married or pregnant

This woman fought for the rights of women to vote

• Rosa Parks

• Susan B. Anthony

• Hillary Clinton

All of these are reasons women wanted more rights, except...

• women could not own property

• Married women could not work

• women could not have babies without permission from their fathers

• women were not allowed to vote

The Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal". Choose at least 2 reasons this was NOT true under our laws until recently

• The president could only serve 2 terms

• African American men had to pass tests or pay fees in order to vote

• you have the right to remain silent

• a person in a wheelchair could not vote if the polling place was on the 2nd floor