Chapter 5- Lesson 2 Review: Taking Action for Our Rights

The women organized a ________________________, or a large meeting.

• convention

• civil rights

• delegate

• suffrage

____________________ are rights of all citizens to be treated equally under the law.

• civil rights

• delegate

• suffrage

• segregated

A ______________________ is a person chosen to act for others.

• delegate

• representative

• agent

• envoy

One right women wanted was ______________________, or the right to vote.

• suffrage

• delegate

• civil rights

• convention

Thurgood Marshall wanted to end the laws that ______________________ African American and white people in public places.

• segregated

• convention

• delegate

• suffrage

Match the famous leader with the correct description.

• Women's suffrage leader

• Susan B. Anthony

• First Lady and human rights activist

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• First African American Supreme Court Justice

• Thurgood Marshall

____________________ I worked hard for civil rights. I believed that all people should be treated equally under the law. I worked hard to end segregation.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Susan B. Anthony

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Thurgood Marshall

____________________ I worked hard to give women the right to vote. In 1872, I broke the law by voting in the election. After I died, other women continued my fight. Women were finally given the right to vote in 1920!

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Thurgood Marshall

• Susan B. Anthony

• Eleanor Roosevelt

____________________ I worked hard to improve people’s rights. I was a delegate for the United Nations. I thought that people had the right to own property, and the right to leave the country and then return.

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Thurgood Marshall

• Susan B. Anthony

After Thurgood Marshall won the court case Brown versus Board of Education, what happened?

• The ruling led to the desegregation of public schools.

• The ruling reinforced segregation laws.

• The ruling increased segregation in southern states.

• The ruling had no significant impact.