Women's Rights
What rights did women not have in the 1800's?
Right to vote
was especially gifted because of her ability of being a powerful speaker?
Who is Sojourner Truth
He was the first African American player in an all-white professional sports league.
Who is Jackie Robinson
the name given to the fight to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the United States
what is the civil rights movement
Who was given the right to vote in the Fourteenth Amendment?
Who is American Women
She was one of the first women to fight for women's right to vote and helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This woman organized a demonstration at the White House to fight for women’s suffrage.
Who is Alice Paul?
This person attended a school that did not have enough supplies for all and was a one-room schoolhouse.
Who is Rosa Parks
What was the main cause of the integration of New Orleans public schools?
What is a decision by the Supreme Court?
to refuse to buy a product or use a service out of protest
what is boycott
How did newspapers react to Stanton’s demand for women’s suffrage?
What is they thought it was a joke?
This woman led a suffrage parade of ten thousand people and attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention to fight for women’s equality.
Who is Mabel Ping-Hua Lee?
She refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger.
Who is Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks’ actions led to this Supreme Court decision, which made it illegal to have segregated seating for African American people on public transit.
Rosa Parks’ actions led to this Supreme Court decision, which made it illegal to have segregated seating for African American people on public transit.
the unfair treatment of people because of something they cannot change
what is discrimination
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's quote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal," is similar to a famous document from U.S. history.
What is the Declaration of Independence
What two topics did Sojourner Truth speak publicly about?
What is ending slavery and the need for women’s suffrage.
helped integrate an elementary school in Louisiana
who is Ruby Bridges
Martin Luther King Jr. believed these two actions could bring about great change.
What are sit-ins and peaceful protest
to officially start the term of a public official at a ceremony
wat is inaugurate
This line from the Declaration of Sentiments means that women can’t help make laws because they can't vote.
What is "Because women can't vote, they have no say in the laws they have to follow"?
This person thought women should have the right to vote, but she also thought it might be too much too soon.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
spoke against segregation and championed nonviolent protest
Who is Martin Luther King Jr
the refusal to follow certain laws as a form of peaceful protest
what is civil rights disobedience
to stand outside a certain place to show opposition to something
what is picket