Rights and Power Core Practice
📝 Worksheet medium ⏱️ 18 minutes 10 problems
Rights and Power Core Practice
Grade 8 Social Studies LearnCrux.com
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Directions
- Fill in each blank carefully.
- Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
- Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
- Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. Match the clue to the civic word: basic freedoms and protections people should have
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2. Why do rights matter in public life?
3. Match the clue to the term: civic movement
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4. Match the clue to the term: human rights
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5. Which statement is strongest?
6. A movement trying to expand rights may create public __.
7. Why should students connect rights to institutions?
8. Which can be part of civic participation?
9. Rights can be written in law but still need __.
10. Civic change often begins when people challenge unfair __.
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. rights
2. they protect people when power is uneven
3. organized action to change public life
4. basic freedoms and protections
5. Rights depend on institutions and enforcement as well as ideas.
6. pressure
7. institutions help decide whether rights are protected in practice
8. studying issues and taking public action
9. enforcement
10. power