Chapter 18: Taking a Stand

Define movement

• a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
• an organized movement to draw attention to a problem or change a policy
• a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
• rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen

Define activist

• a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
• an organized movement to draw attention to a problem or change a policy
• a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
• rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen

Define civil rights

• a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
• an organized movement to draw attention to a problem or change a policy
• a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
• rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen

Define boycott

• a refusal to deal with a person, business, or country
• a camping bed
• a person who uses direct action to support or oppose an issue
• rights belonging to a person because they are a citizen

Define minority group

• synonym to majority group
• the dominant group, or group with the most power and influence
• The group with the most wealth and resources
• the non-dominate group, usually doesn't have the same advantages or power as the dominate group

Define segregation

• community
• 14th ammendment
• The forced separation of people, usually based on race
• a civil right

Define women's rights

• movement to have economic, social, and legal equal to those as men
• the right for women to vote
• women should not work outside the home

What did the antiwar protesters want?

• To get out of Korea
• To end the Cold War
• US to get out of Vietnam
• To bomb the Soviet Union

What did the American Indian Movement want to see happen?

• Treaty rights honored and to assist urban American Indians
• They wanted more reservations
• They wanted more boarding schools
• They wanted the right to vote

All Americans were against the Vietnam War. 

• True
• False