Section 4

Question 1

what are civil rights?

Answer 1

guarantees of equal opportunity and protection.

Question 2

what are civil liberties?

Answer 2

Stop government from taking action and protecting individual choices.

Question 3

what is equal treatment?

Answer 3

being treated fairly.

Question 4

what is prescription?

Answer 4

action of the government required to take.

Question 5

what is proscriptions?

Answer 5

limit on what government can do.

Question 6

what is selective incorporation?

Answer 6

Parts of the bill of right applied to state governments.

Question 7

what is abridgement?

Answer 7

to limit or lessen.

Question 8

What us civil rights act of 1957?

Answer 8

Rights for everyone to vote.

Question 9

what is civil rights of 1964?

Answer 9

Segregation ended and discrimination law.

Question 10

what is voting rights act of 1965?

Answer 10

prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

Question 11

what is the fair housing act?

Answer 11

equal housing opportunities for everyone.

Question 12

what is the equal pay act of 1963?

Answer 12

illegal making women and men wages different.

Question 13

what is title vii of civil rights act of 1964?

Answer 13

illegal to retaliate on someone who complains about discrimination.

Question 14

what is title ix of 1972?

Answer 14

illegal to discriminate against sex and religious beliefs in education.

Question 15

what is pregnancy discrimination act of 1972?

Answer 15

illegal to discriminate a pregnant woman.

Question 16

what is emancipation?

Answer 16

to legally free someone.

Question 17

what is abolition?

Answer 17

to work to end slavery.

Question 18

what is abolitionist?

Answer 18

were opposed an sought to end slavery.

Question 19

what is reconstruction?

Answer 19

equality of blacks.

Question 20

what was the civil rights movement?

Answer 20

MLK to acknowledge and end segregation.

Question 21

what is compliance?

Answer 21

to follow legal requirements.

Question 22

what is grassroot organization?

Answer 22

asking for change in policy.

Question 23

what are activists?

Answer 23

nonviolent actions to change the government.

Question 24

what is white flight?

Answer 24

large-scale migration of whites from socially mixed sub areas.

Question 25

what is stop-and-frisk?

Answer 25

allows police to search anyone they believe is committing a crime.

Question 26

what is an asset forfeiture?

Answer 26

keep or sell property that is claimed to be involved in a crime.

Question 27

what is ex post facto laws?

Answer 27

making a legal action suddenly illegal.

Question 28

what is redress of grievances?

Answer 28

a citizen’s right to ask the government to solve their problem or complaint.

Question 29

what does secular mean?

Answer 29

nonreligious.

Question 30

what is a seizure?

Answer 30

when government takes evidence to use in trial.

Question 31

what is probable cause?

Answer 31

legal standard to determine whether a search or seizure is constitutional.

Question 32

what is an exclusionary rule?

Answer 32

Mapp v. Ohio, a rule stating that evidence obtained because of an illegal search or seizure cannot be used in trial.

Question 33

what is double jeopardy?

Answer 33

a legal prohibition against trying an individual twice for the same crime, established by fifth amendment.

Question 34

what are damages?

Answer 34

compensating for the victim’s injury or loss.

Question 35

what are statutory rights?

Answer 35

a right granted in law or statute.

Question 36

what is voir dire?

Answer 36

to speak the truth.

Question 37

what are procedural rights?

Answer 37

legal procedure or process guaranteed by the government.

Question 38

what are Jim Crow laws?

Answer 38

denying rights to newly freed slaves and derogatory term for blacks.

Question 39

what is disenfranchisement?

Answer 39

being denied the right to vote.

Question 40

what are civil war amendments?

Answer 40

13-15th amendment, and was added after the civil wars and ended slavery and granted voting rights to black men.