Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin Vocabulary Worksheet

Fill in the blank: The Civil Rights Movement took place over several ______.

• decades.

• years.

• months.

• weeks.

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.W.2.3

CCSS.W.3.3C

Fill in the blank: Rosa Parks’ arrest sent ______ through the community and inspired action.

• shockwaves.

• ripples.

• whispers.

• waves.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Fill in the blank: Signs reading “______ Only” were common in the South during the Jim Crow era.

• Colored.

• White.

• Men.

• Women.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Fill in the blanks with the correct vocabulary word from the list above. The Montgomery Bus ________________ was an important protest against unfair laws.

• Boycott

• Protest

• March

• Strike

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Fill in the blanks with the correct vocabulary word from the list above. The Civil Rights Movement helped to bring an end to ________________ in public places.

• segregation

• integration

• discrimination

• exclusion

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Fill in the blanks with the correct vocabulary word from the list above. Martin Luther King Jr. was a strong ________________ of equal rights.

• advocate

• opponent

• bystander

• critic

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Choose the correct statement about Rosa Parks or Claudette Colvin.

• Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.

• Claudette Colvin was the first person to refuse to give up her seat on a bus.

• Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin were both involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Claudette Colvin was a civil rights activist before Rosa Parks.

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, she showed great _________.

• ignition

• defiance

• segregation

• decades

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

1. Before becoming a famous activist, Rosa Parks worked as a _________, making, altering and mending clothing.

• representative

• Jim Crow

• seamstress

• colored

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

1. The unfair treatment of African Americans under _________ laws sparked protests.

• Jim Crow

• decades

• segregation

• shockwaves

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4