The making of a nation - Freedom and equality

Put the following events into the right order!

• Racial Segregation laws

• Black Lives Matter movement

• Aboition of Slavery

• The Civil War

• Citizenships and voting rights for Native Americans

The US Constitution guaranteed equal rights for all Americans from the beginning.

• True

• False

Which of the following statements about the struggle for equality in the US is true?

• Native Americans gained voting rights in the 18th century.

• very was abolished shortly before the Civil War.

• ‘Jim Crow’ laws promoted legalized racial inequality.

Match the following

• guaranteed basicc freedoms

• Bill of Rights

• enforced racial segregation

• Civil Rights movement

• fought racial discrimination

• Jim Crow Laws

Which amendment abolished slavery in the US?

 

• First

• Fifth

• Thirteenth

• Nineteenth

What did the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s fight for?

• lower taxes

• equal rights for descendants of freed slaves

• eore schools in cities

• a new president

What is the so-called ‘Bill of Rights’?

• First ten amendments of the constitution

• First twelve amendments of the constitution

• Second Amendment of the Constitution

Which of these right are established in the first amendment?

• freedom of speech

• freedom of religion

• equal rights for women

• right to assembly

What right is protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

 

• Freedom of speech

• The right to a fair trial

• The right to bear arms

• Freedom of religion

Which movement has been actively fighting to change systematic racism and discrimination?

 

• LGBTQIA+

• White Lives Matter

• Black Lives Matter

• Me Too