Vocabulary
When you don't buy something or do something to support a cause (hint: think a bit grapes and buses)
Boycott
I wrote Common Sense to encourage people to end slavery, give women rights and support education.
Thomas Paine
A place where you go to vote
Polls
Two groups of pepole were citizens but not allowed to vote...
Native Americans and Mexican Americans
People in Fargo built walls with sandbags, how did this help?
The walls helped the flood waters from rushing in
Jim Crow laws segregated public places with whites and African Americans....give an example.
Different places to sit on the bus and movie theater, different pools, schools etc.
My actions began the Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks
Voters receive a ....This is where the candidates are listed that you can vote for.
A ballot
Some Americans resented Chinese people because they thought they worked for less money. To resent means...
Feel angry towards a group of people
Fargo is in what state?
North Dakota
An amendment to the Constitution does what....
Changes it
I organized a parade with thousands of people to brig attention to Womens rights.
Alice Paul
The people running for elected positions on the ballot are called...
Candidates
Young pepole believed if they were old enough to ___________ they were old enough to vote.
Fight in wars
The volunteers helped out by...
Filling sandbags
When you say what you think is going to happen in the future or will be a consequence of something....
For examole: I _____ that _____ will happen in this story because of what the Text says.
Predict
I always took action peacefully and gave a famous speech in Washington DC.
Martin Luther King
Roberts Rules of Order is still used today to...
Keep meetings organized and peaceful
Even after African Americans had the right to vote some states would make it difficult by...
Making people take tests or pay poll taxes
The National Weather Service predicted....
A Bad flood
Many people who fought for the right to vote were described as bold because they took action and we're confident. All the people we read about were also....and nonviolent
Peaceful
I went on a hunger strike to support the farmworkers
Cesar Chavez
Suffragists were men and women that fought for women's ....
Right to vote
Not all women agreed on how to get the right to vote some thought they should change state laws, others thought thy should change....
The Constitution
The volunteers were being good ....
Citizens