Rights and Freedoms

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Across
  1. 2. The name of our current unit of study is called "Rights and ___________."
  2. 3. When people march on the streets to demand change it is called a ___________.
  3. 5. Under the Protection Policy, Aboriginal people were made ______ of the state. Today, this status is often applied to children placed into government care.
  4. 8. The introduction of new European _____________ made many Aboriginal people sick and killed them.
  5. 10. Many young Aboriginal girls and women were taken from their families and forced to become ________________ servants.
  6. 12. In a democracy, people elect their leaders by doing this.
  7. 13. Rights belonging to all humans.
  8. 14. A group of people who decide whether someone is innocent or guilty in a criminal trial. An all-white _________ would often release white people accused of murder in the segregated south.
  9. 15. This policy saw Aboriginal people placed on reserves or missions with their civil rights taken away
  10. 16. Early British settlers though Aboriginal people were __________, meaning primitive or uncivilised.
  11. 17. A key document setting out people's human rights is the Universal _____________ on Human Rights (UDHR).
Down
  1. 1. These laws were introduced by states in the south of America after the Civil War. They introduced segregation and were designed to maintain inequality for black people.
  2. 2. The surname of the man who was recently killed by a police officer in Minneapolis in the United States.
  3. 4. This policy saw black people formally separated from whites in nearly all areas of life.
  4. 6. The Day of Mourning was held on ______________ Day in 1938.
  5. 7. This organisation is made up of all the nations on earth. One of its responsibilities is to protect human rights.
  6. 9. Black people in the United States were kept in this condition before the American Civil War led to its abolition.
  7. 11. Black and white children were required to go to separate __________ in the southern United States in the 1950s.
  8. 16. This word is used before "Generations" and "Wages" to describe the experience of many Aboriginal people.