Roosevelt Vocab
Timid
shy and easily frightened
Front Line
the place where soldiers fight in a war
or
a position of direct and important influence
Denial
a statement that something is not true or does not exist
What were the two opposing sides in the American Civil War?
The Union and The Confederacy
Roosevelt used this metaphor in his speech
Man in the arena
Point out
to tell someone a fact
Disguise
clothes and other things that you wear to change the way you look so that people cannot recognize you
Privledge
an advantage that only one person or group of people has, usually because of their position or because they are rich
What movement was MLK a part of and leader in?
American Civil Rights Movement
MLK repeats this line in his speech
Somewhere I've read...
Feign
If you feign an emotion, illness, etc, you pretend to have it
Confederate
someone you work together with in a secret, sometimes illegal, activity
or
united in or part of a confederacy (= a situation in which states or people join together for a particular purpose, or a group formed like this):
Assembly
a group of people, especially one that meets regularly for a particular purpose, such as government, or, more generally, the process of coming together, or the state of being together
Who founded the American Red Cross? Give the first and last name.
Clara Barton
Mar
to spoil something
Ragged
(of clothes) torn and not in good condition
or
(of a person) messy, dirty, and wearing old, torn clothes
Amendment
a change or changes made to the words of a text
or
a change to a law that is not yet in operation and is still being discussed
In his "I've Been To The Mountaintop." what was he speaking in support of?
Memphis sanitation workers' strike
Cynicism
believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere
Geneva Convention
a set of agreements, accepted by many countries, that establish how people should be treated when they are prisoners in a war
Totalitarian
of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to oppose them
What was the other war that Clara Barton got involved in aside from the American Civil War?
Franco-Prussian War