Chapter 4 vocab

Question 1

Civil liberty

Answer 1

Freedoms to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment.

Question 2

Free speech

Answer 2

The right to say our opinions, in public or in private, without fear of being stopped or punished by the government for those ideas.

Question 3

Censorship

Answer 3

The banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas.

Question 4

Petition

Answer 4

a formal request for government action.

Question 5

Slander

Answer 5

Spoken untruths that are harmful to someone’s reputation.

Question 6

Libel

Answer 6

Written untruths that are harmful to someone’s reputation.

Question 7

Civil

Answer 7

Of or relating to citizens.

Question 8

Restriction

Answer 8

Limit placed on something.

Question 9

Accused

Answer 9

A person officially charged with a crime.

Question 10

Probable cause

Answer 10

• Strong reasons to think that a person or property was involved in a crime.

Question 11

Search warrant

Answer 11

A court order allowing law-enforcement officers to search a suspect’s home or business and take specific items as evidence.

Question 12

Indictment

Answer 12

A document issued by a body called a grand jury that formally charges someone with a crime.

Question 13

Double jeopardy

Answer 13

Putting someone on trial for a crime of which he or she was previously found not guilty.

Question 14

Self- incrimination

Answer 14

Giving evidence that could lead to one being found guilty of a crime.

Question 15

Due process-

Answer 15

Following established legal procedures.

Question 16

Eminent domain

Answer 16

The right of the government to take private property for public use.

Question 17

Bail

Answer 17

A sum of money used as a security deposit to ensure that an accused person returns for his or her trial.

Question 18

License

Answer 18

A document granting the holder permission to do something.

Question 19

Retain

Answer 19

To keep or hold secure.

Question 20

Black codes

Answer 20

Laws from after the civil war that kept African Americans from holding certain jobs, gave them few property rights, and limited their rights in other ways.

Question 21

Suffrage

Answer 21

The right to vote.

Question 22

Poll tax

Answer 22

A sum of money required of voters before they are permitted to cast a ballot.

Question 23

Eliminate

Answer 23

To take away or to end.

Question 24

Conduct

Answer 24

To carry out.

Question 25

Discrimination

Answer 25

Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group.

Question 26

Segregation

Answer 26

The social separation of the races.

Question 27

Jim Crow law

Answer 27

Southern segregation law.

Question 28

Civil rights

Answer 28

The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law.

Question 29

Nonviolent resistance

Answer 29

Peaceful protest against laws believed to be unfair.

Question 30

Sit-in

Answer 30

The act of occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment as a form of organized protest.

Question 31

Hate crime

Answer 31

A violent act against a person because of his or her race, color, national origin, gender, or disability.

Question 32

Persist

Answer 32

To last or to continue.

Question 33

Exploit

Answer 33

To use unfairly for someone else’s gain.