Chapter 4 Test

Question 1

The ban of printed materials or film because they contain alarming or offensive ideas

Answer 1

Censorship

Question 2

A formal request usually for government action

Answer 2

Petition

Question 3

Spoken lies are harmful to a person’s reputation

Answer 3

Slander

Question 4

Written lines that are harmful to a persons reputation

Answer 4

Libel

Question 5

What are the five freedom is protected by the First Amendment

Answer 5

Speech religion press petition assembly

Question 6

What are some examples of press

Answer 6

Newspapers, magazines, television, radio, Internet, books

Question 7

What are some examples of speech

Answer 7

Face-to-face conversation clothes art music meetings lectures

Question 8

What are some limitations to the First Amendment

Answer 8

We can’t endanger Americans/government, can’t start riots, can’t slander or libel

Question 9

What was the court case that involved teens who wore black armbands to school to mourn the death of those In the Vietnam war they were suspended by the school

Answer 9

Tinker v. Des Moines school district

Question 10

The Supreme Court ruled in the court case that the armbands or form of what kind of speech protected by the First Amendment

Answer 10

Free-speech

Question 11

The freedoms we have to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair treatment

Answer 11

Civil liberties

Question 12

A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspects home or business and take specific items as evidence

Answer 12

Search warrant

Question 13

Giving evidence about yourself that could lead to you being found guilty of a crime

Answer 13

Self incrimination

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Eminent domain

Question 15

A strong reason to think that a person or property was involved in a crime

Answer 15

Probable cause

Question 16

A person officially charged with a crime

Answer 16

Accused

Question 17

A formal charge by grand jury

Answer 17

Indictment

Question 18

Putting someone on trial for crime of which he or she was previously found not guilty. The Fifth Amendment protects against this

Answer 18

Double Jeopardy

Question 19

Following established legal procedures

Answer 19

Due process

Question 20

A sum of money used as a security deposit to make sure that any accused person returns for trial

Answer 20

Bail

Question 21

Which amendment protects against illegal searches and seizures

Answer 21

Fourth

Question 22

What does the Second Amendment do

Answer 22

Give you the right to bear arms

Question 23

Which amendment deals with civil cases

Answer 23

Seventh

Question 24

What are civil cases

Answer 24

Lawsuits that arise when people’s rights are in conflict

Question 25

How much money must a case involved for a civil case to require a jury

Answer 25

$20

Question 26

What is the sixth amendment do

Answer 26

Guarantees a trial by jury

Question 27

What are five specific rights given by the sixth amendment

Answer 27

Guarantees all rights to the accused, allows the accused to trial by jury, accused can hear and question all witnesses against him, right to a lawyer, accuse must be able to call witnesses and defense

Question 28

Which amendment says American citizens do not have to house soldiers during peacetime

Answer 28

Third

Question 29

What did the ninth amendment do

Answer 29

It's stated that citizens have more rights than those in the Bill of Rights

Question 30

Which amendment says that due process must be followed when arresting someone and having a trial, such as double jeopardy, accused persons can plead the fifth, and there must be an indictment

Answer 30

Fifth

Question 31

What is the eighth amendment do

Answer 31

No cruel or unusual punishment

Question 32

Which amendment states that powers are not guaranteed to the national government by the Constitution I reserved for the states

Answer 32

Tenth

Question 33

The right to vote

Answer 33

Suffrage, franchise

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Poll taxes

Question 35

Which three amendments are nicknamed the Civil War amendments

Answer 35

13th 14th and 15th

Question 36

What did the 13th amendment do

Answer 36

Outlawed slavery

Question 37

What are two ways that black codes restricted African-Americans

Answer 37

Kept him from holding certain jobs and gave them to you property rights

Question 38

What is the 14th amendment do

Answer 38

Defined a citizen as anyone born or naturalized in the United States

Question 39

What is the 15th amendment do

Answer 39

Said that no state could take away a persons voting rights on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 40

What did the 17th amendment do

Answer 40

Enabled voters to elect senators directly

Question 41

What did the 19th amendment do

Answer 41

Gave women the right to vote

Question 42

Who are some woman's suffrage movement leaders

Answer 42

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

Question 43

Who did the 23rd amendment get the rights to vote

Answer 43

Residents of Washington DC

Question 44

What did 24th amendment do

Answer 44

Eliminated poll taxes

Question 45

What did the 26th amendment do

Answer 45

Guaranteed the right to vote at age 18

Question 46

What did the 18th amendment do you

Answer 46

Prohibited making, selling, transporting, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages (Prohibition)

Question 47

Which amendment repealed the 18th amendment

Answer 47

21st

Question 48

Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group

Answer 48

Discrimination

Question 49

The social separation of races

Answer 49

Segregation

Question 50

The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law

Answer 50

Civil rights

Question 51

Programs intended to make up for past discrimination but hoping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities

Answer 51

Affirmative action's

Question 52

What were sit ins

Answer 52

African-Americans occupied seats or sat on the floor of an establishment as a form of organize protest

Question 53

Singling out in individual as a suspect due to appearance and ethnicity

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Racial profiling

Question 54

What did Jim Crow laws require

Answer 54

And African-Americans and whites to be separated in public places

Question 55

National Association for the advancement of colored people

Answer 55

NAACP

Question 56

Worked through the courts to challenge laws and customs that tonight African-Americans their constitutional rights

Answer 56

NAACP

Question 57

What court case in which the NAACP lawyers argued successfully that segregation in school is unconstitutional. It ended segregation in schools

Answer 57

Brown v. Board

Question 58

Who is one of the main leaders of the civil rights movement. He believed in nonviolent resistance and helped to organize marches, boycotts, and demonstrations for civil rights

Answer 58

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 59

Prohibited it discrimination in public facilities, employment, education, voter registration

Answer 59

Civil rights act of 1964

Question 60

What were the freedom rides/freedom writers

Answer 60

People of all races who went all over the United States to protest segregation in your mind the United States that we are in diverse country

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Hate crime