Fighting for a Cause Knowledge Test

I wanted women to have the right to vote. I was also an abolitionist who worked with President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Bethune

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I started a school for African American children in Florida.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Bethune

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

I refused to move and give up my seat on a bus to a white person.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Bethune

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I was a First Lady and helped allow Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial.

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Bethune

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I was called the "mother of the civil rights movement."

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Rosa Parks

• Mary Bethune

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I gave my "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I fought for migrant workers to receive better pay and more seasonable working conditions.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I worked with Rosa Parks to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

I broke the color barrier in professional sports.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

• Cesar Chavez

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3