Gold: 12,000+ Teacher Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teacher Templates, Web Quests. Samples
Platinum: Worksheet Makers: Math, Lang. Arts, Puzzles, Rubric Makers, Graphic Organizers. Samples
Silver: Your instant online classroom for students. Samples
Supreme: Get the power of all of our available resources at a huge discount! Samples
Name ________________________
Date ____________________

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet

Directions: Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right.

1. civil rights a strongly held purpose or goal.
2. discrimination the policy or practice of refusing to use violent means to pursue political or social aims.
3. minister a person authorized to perform or assist with religious ceremony and worship; pastor.
4. racial the condition of being separated, esp. as a policy imposing social separation according to racial or ethnic groups.
5. segregation rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and certain Congressional acts, esp. as applied to an individual or a minority group.
6. dream the act of making invalid, unfair, or hurtful differentiations, as in prejudice against people of minority groups.
7. speech a gesture or formal action by a person or esp. a group as a public display of objection or dissent.
8. peace the ability or quality that makes one a leader.
9. leadership to contend strenuously with a difficult problem or situation.
10. struggle pertaining to relations between races of people, esp. those living in the same country, city, or neighborhood.
11. protest a public address.
12. nonviolence the principle or quality of equity; moral rightness.
13. justice a state of freedom from war or hostility.
14. boycott to refuse to buy, use, attend, or deal with (a product, activity, business, or the like), usu. as a protest or means of persuasion.

Powered by: The Web Portal For Educators (www.teach-nology.com)

©2007 Teachnology, Inc. All rights reserved.