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Government for the People

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Short Read 1 -- Working Together about?

a)

People working together to build a cement wall to stop a flood in Fargo, North Dakota.

b)

People working together to save animals from a flood in Fargo, North Dakota.

c)

People working together to fill sandbags to stop a flood in Fargo, North Dakota

d)

People working together to help women get the right to vote in Fargo, North Dakota

2.

What year did women finally win the right to vote?

a)

1920

b)

1930

c)

1965

d)

2000

3.

What were women and men called who supported the right for women to vote?

a)

marchers

b)

protesters

c)

Alice Paul

d)

suffragist

4.

Who refused to give up their seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

(a)  

5.

What unfair laws said it was ok for African Americans to be segregated.

a)

Joe Blackbird laws

b)

Jim Sparrow laws

c)

Jim Crow laws

d)

Joe Crow laws

6.

What did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believe?

a)

Peaceful protest was the way to make change.

b)

That the one-day bus boycott was a good idea.

c)

That the bus boycott should be longer.

d)

All of the above are correct.

7.

What group did Ceasar Chavez start that worked to help farmworker?

a)

National Farm Workers Association (NFWA)

b)

National Fruit Workers Association (NFWA)

c)

National Friendship Workers Association (NFWA)

d)

National Food Workers Association (NFWA)

8.

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

9.

What did Ceasar Chavez do for 25 days to peacefully protest?

a)

Eat only grapes and lettuce

b)

Went on a hunger strike and did not eat.

c)

Walked across California

d)

Work on a farm

10.

Why do people participate in government?

a)

They participate to change unfair laws.

b)

They participate because it is their right and responsibility.

c)

They participate to help others.

d)

All of the above

11.

Which story did you like the most in Unit 1 Government for the People?

a)

Short Read 1 -- Working Together

b)

Short Read 2 -- Election Day

c)

Extendend Read 1 -- It's My Right

d)

Extended Read 2 -- Winning th Right to Vote