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WorksheetsChapter 18: Taking a Stand
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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Class
Date
1.
Define movement
a)
a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
b)
an organized movement to draw attention to a problem or change a policy
c)
a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
d)
rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen
2.
Define activist
a)
a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
b)
an organized movement to draw attention to a problem or change a policy
c)
a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
d)
rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen
3.
Define civil rights
a)
a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
b)
an organized movement to draw attention to a problem or change a policy
c)
a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
d)
rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen
4.
Define boycott
a)
a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
b)
a camping bed
c)
a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
d)
rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen
5.
Define minority group
a)
synonym to majority group
b)
the dominant group, or group with the most power and influence
c)
The group with the most wealth and resources
d)
the non-dominate group, usually doesn't have the same advantages or power as the dominate group
6.
Define segregation
a)
community
b)
14th ammendment
c)
The forced separation of people, usually based on race
d)
a civil right
7.
Define women's rights
a)
movement to have economic, social, and legal equal to those as men
b)
the right for women to vote
c)
women should not work outside the home
8.
What did the antiwar protesters want?
a)
To get out of Korea
b)
To end the Cold War
c)
US to get out of Vietnam
d)
To bomb the Soviet Union
9.
What did the American Indian Movement want to see happen?
a)
Treaty rights honored and to assist urban American Indians
b)
They wanted more reservations
c)
They wanted more boarding schools
d)
They wanted the right to vote
10.
All Americans were against the Vietnam War.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s commitment to nonviolence appealed to many Americans.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Activists marched, protested, boycotted, and went to court to fight for their rights.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
The boy's swim coach did not want Kathy Striebel to join the swim team because he feared it would damage the boys' self-esteem if she beat them.
a)
True
b)
False
14.
The American Indian Movement's goal was to get the right to vote.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Place at the U of M that the AAAC took over to demand equal rights for African Americans. (Rose Mary Freeman was a part of this.)
a)
Morrill Hall
b)
Roy Wilkens Auditorium
c)
Student Union
d)
The dormitory
16.
How did college students participate in the antiwar movement?
a)
They held demonstrations, or protests, on college campuses.
b)
The took over universities and demanded classes be canceled for the year.
c)
They did not participate in the antiwar movement.
d)
College students kicked professors out of office that were pro-war.
17.
What was one goal of Mary Freeman and the Afro-American Action Committee?
a)
To cancel classes in protest of the Vietnam War.
b)
To help get equal rights for women and girls at the university.
c)
To take over the campus until they allowed black students to attend the University of Minnesota.
d)
To include a program with classes to study African American history and culture.
18.
What was the reasoning the American Indian protests used to take over the air base?
a)
The protesters did not give a reason.
b)
The treaty signed in 1868 that said American Indians can take back any land the federal government abandons.
c)
They needed new land to farm because their land had gone sour.
d)
Because they needed a place to live when they were kicked off of their reservation.
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