Unit 6: Seeking Freedom

Learn these words from the history feature by Daniel Schulman (Inside: Level A, Unit 6).

Here are our links to the selections of "Struggle for Freedom": Escaping to Freedom; Follow the Drinking Gourd, Brave Butterflies, Farah Ahmedi, Seeking Freedom, Harriet Tubman

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  1. government
    the system or form by which a community is ruled
  2. responsibility
    the social force that binds you to a course of action
  3. opinion
    a personal belief or judgment
  4. reporter
    a person who investigates or communicates news stories
  5. leader
    a person who rules or guides or inspires others
  6. cruel
    able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  7. system
    a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
  8. protest
    express opposition through action or words
  9. peaceful
    nonviolently resistant in response to injustice
  10. succeed
    attain success or reach a desired goal
  11. arrest
    take into custody
  12. gain
    win something through one's efforts
  13. public
    not private
  14. recent
    of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
  15. punish
    impose a penalty on
  16. constitution
    law determining the fundamental principles of a government
  17. seek
    try to locate, discover, or establish the existence of
  18. apartheid
    a social policy of racial segregation
Created on August 5, 2016 (updated August 17, 2016)

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