Events
What movement started in the US after a Black man, George Floyd, was killed by a police officer?
Black Lives Matter
Who was the leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement?
BONUS: Name one more leader of the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Nelson Mandela
BONUS: Oliver Tambo, Desmond Tutu, etc.
Expansion
Increasing, growing, or getting larger.
The March on Washington happened (on / in / at) 1963.
in
What day was established in April, 1970 to bring more awareness to the Environmental Movement?
Earth Day
Who is one of the most famous leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the US?
BONUS: Name one other leader in the Civil Right Movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
BONUS: Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, etc.
Strikes
When workers stop working to demand better pay, conditions, or rights
Rachel Carson, (who / that / which) wrote Silent Spring, inspired the modern environmental movement.
who
What is the Great Green Wall?
An African Union initiative to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert into the Sahel region
What movement is Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan activist, a part of?
BONUS: She was the first woman in Africa to win an award. What is that award?
The Environmental or Women's Rights Movement
BONUS: The Nobel Peace Prize
Apartheid
A system of laws in South Africa that kept white and Black people separate and gave more power and rights to white people.
There is pressure on Indigenous peoples in Africa (assimilate) and abandon their traditional beliefs
to assimilate
What is one action the labor movement used to make change?
Strikes, forming unions, collective bargaining, etc.
Name the 22 year-old activist from Sweden, what is she famous for?
Greta Thunberg. Youth climate activist.
Treaty
A formal agreement between two or more countries.
If women (not protest) for the right to vote, the 19th Amendment wouldn’t have passed.
had not protested
What happened at the Occupation of Alcatraz with the American Indian Movement?
Native Americans took over an island (that was used as a prison in the past) off the coast of California.
Tell the name of a feminist activist in Africa. Explain why you think they're an activist.
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Discrimination
When someone is treated unfairly or differently because of things like their race, gender, age, or religion.
Workers in the Gold Coast were treated poorly by their British colonizers.
Change this to active voice.
British colonizers treated workers in the Gold Coast poorly.