Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary

What is the root or base word for "Segregation" as used in the context of the Civil Rights Movement?

• separate

• segregate

• group

• divide

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What was the primary purpose of the 14th Amendment according to the Civil Rights Movement vocabulary?

• To end segregation

• To limit voting rights

• To grant citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

• To establish new states

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Which term describes a system that keeps different groups separate from each other?

• Integration

• Segregation

• Unity

• Association

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

In Montgomery, Alabama, city busses were ​ (a)   in 1955.

• segregated

• detained

• violated

Martin Luther King Jr. ________ for equality in the Civil Rights Movement.

• Advocated

• Emaciated

• Deployed

• Guilted

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

In paragraph nine of the speech (beginning "The marvelous new militancy . . ."), Dr. King says that "many of our white brothers . . . have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom." Define the adverb inextricably.

• (a) unable to be excused or pardoned
  
  

• (b) unable to be separated or untied

• (c) unable to be solved or explained
  
  

• (d) carefully or thoughtfully

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Ending the policy of keeping people of different races separate.

• desegregation

• segregation

• integration

• Brown v. Board of Education

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Protests in the 1950s and 1960s against the unfair treatment of African Americans and other minorities.

• civil rights movement

• Jim Crow laws

• civil disobedience

• nonviolent protest

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The rights all citizens should have no matter their race, gender, ability, religion, etc.

• Desegregation

• Civil Rights

• Jim Crow Laws

• Integration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A belief that people of one race are superior to the people of another

• prejudice

• segregation

• racism

• discrimination

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C