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Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King, Jr.
U.S. Government
Vocabulary
Bill of Rights
100
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How many schools did Chavez attend as a kid?
100
Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in this city.
What is Atlanta?
100
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What is a union?
100
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
What is the 8th amendment?
200
Hardened by his early experience as a migrant worker, Chavez founded this group in 1962.
What is the National Farm Workers Association?
200
This man was the President of the United States during the Selma protest.
Who is President Lyndon Johnson?
200
Fair treatment through the normal judicial (court) system, especially as a citizen’s entitlement or right.
What is due process?
200
A refusal to work by employees as a form of protest.
What is a strike?
200
Nobody can search your body, or your house, or your papers and things, unless they can prove to a judge that they have a good reason to think you have committed a crime.
What is the 4th amendment?
300
Cesar Chavez's birth place.
What is Yuma, Arizona?
300
Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as they attempted to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand this.
What is the right to vote for black people?
300
This clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny this to any person within its jurisdiction.
What is "the equal protection of the laws?"
300
A person or people standing outside a place of work or other venue protesting something or trying to persuade others not to enter during a strike.
What is a Picket?
300
The United States Congress can't make any law about your religion, or stop you from practicing your religion, or keep you from saying whatever you want, or publishing whatever you want (like in a newspaper or a book). And Congress can't stop you from meeting peacefully for a demonstration to ask the government to change something.
What is the first amendment?
400
Farmhands who move from farm to farm are called this.
What are Migrant Laborers?
400
Southern states were preventing black Americans from doing this.
What is registering to vote?
400
The clause (article) in the U.S. Constitution that explains that states cannot make laws that conflict with the U.S. Constitution or with the laws made by Congress.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
400
To stop buying products or working with a certain organization as a punishment or protest.
What is a boycott?
400
If you're arrested, you have a right to have your trial pretty soon, and the government can't keep you in jail without trying you. The trial has to be public, so everyone knows what is happening. The case has to be decided by a jury of ordinary people from your area. You have the right to know what you are accused of, to see and hear the people who are witnesses against you, to have the government help you get witnesses on your side, and you have the right to a lawyer to help you.
What is the 6th amendment?
500
In 1968 Chavez went on a fast for twenty-five days to protest this within his union.
What is the increasing advocacy of violence within the union?
500
Because of the attention raised by the protests, Congress passed this act of legislation.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
500
Newspapers, magazines, and other news media. Also, the reporters (journalists) and people who produce them.
What is the Press?
500
A person who refuses to strike or join a labor union or someone who takes over the job of a striking worker.
What is a scab?
500
Anything that the Constitution doesn't say that Congress can do should be left up to the states, or to the people.
What is the 10th amendment?