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Introduction
When people talk about what makes them tick, they often mention the hobbies, sports, movies, family, and friends they care about most. Sometimes an idea can make people tick. Just like sports and hobbies, different causes and issues appeal to different people. If someone lost a friend or family member to an incurable illness, that person might become a crusader for medical research. If an animal lover notices an increase of stray animals, the person might get involved with rescue work. This websites you are going to visit in this Web Quest tell about the causes that made many brave Americans tick.

Destination Titles
Stand Up For Your Rights (www.pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/index.html)
It's Not Fair (www.pbskids.org/wayback/fair/index.html)

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Directions
Start with “Stand Up For Your Rights.” In the middle of the page, under “Stand Up For Your Rights,” click on one of the feature stories (Religious Freedom, Women and the Vote, and School Desegregation). Read all three features. Return to the home page and click on the “Buzz” link. Read the interview with Melba Beals. Next, go to the “It's Not Fair” link at the bottom of the page. Click on the “Fairness Fighters” and “Snapshot” links. Read both of the sections.

After you have explored the links above, answer questions about two of the following topics: School Desegregation, Women and the Right to Vote, Religious Freedom , or Child Labor.


Questions for School Desegregation:




1.How did the Little Rock Nine affect the civil rights movement?



2.Name three civil rights leaders who you read about in this feature.



3.What happened at the end of Melba Beal’s first year at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

Questions for Women and the Right to Vote:




4.During the early 1900s, what was a suffragist?



5.After being released from solitary confinement, what did Alice Paul do to protest her jail sentence and the obstacles the suffragists faced?



6.Name two ways suffragists peacefully demonstrated for women’s right to vote.

Questions for Religious Freedom:




7.How did Anne Hutchinson’s beliefs differ from the beliefs of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?



8.What was one reason Quakers were singled out for punishment in the Massachusetts Bay Colonies?



9.What does the first Constitutional Amendment state?

Questions for Child Labor:




10.Name three jobs that children in the late nineteenth century often performed.



11.How did Mary Harris Jones help the child labor movement?



12.Why did employers in the late nineteenth century like to hire children?

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