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Name: Date: Class:
Chapter 9: United States of America
Vocabulary: Know the Terms
Directions: Write a definition in your own words for each term.
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
3. First Amendment
4. United States Constitution
5. checks and balances
6. American Civil War
7. League of Nations
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8. Great Depression
9. United States Supreme Court
10. marketplace
Directions: Draw an image in each box that represents the term.
Pentagon Roaring
Twenties
American Civil
War
League of
Nations
presidential
system
civil rights
movement
World Trade
Center
Congress pharmaceuticals temperate
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The struggle for racial equality has long been an important issue for the United States. The ongoing
struggle of the civil rights movement for all Americans is still a major political force and a source of
contention for many Americans.
Directions: Choose one of the topics below and write 1-2 paragraphs explaining the selected prompt.
Choose one topic:
Summarize the role of racial equality and civil rights as a cause of the American Civil War.
Include the importance of Abraham Lincoln.
Summarize the civil rights movement and the role and influence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
in the struggle for racial equality.