Lesson 17 to 21 Terms to know

Question 1

Assembly

Answer 1

The right to meet with others to discuss your beliefs, ideas, or feelings.

Question 2

Defamation

Answer 2

Purposely saying or writing false information about a person that seriously ruins their reputation.

Question 3

expression

Answer 3

means to communicate your beliefs, ideas, or feelings to others.

Question 4

freedom of expression

Answer 4

The right to make known things as your beliefs by means you are protected.

Question 5

Petition

Answer 5

The right to ask your government to correct things that you think are wrong.

Question 6

press

Answer 6

The right to read and write about whatever you wish

Question 7

Speech

Answer 7

The right to talk about your beliefs, ideas, or feelings.

Question 8

discriminate

Answer 8

Unfair treatment of people

Question 9

Establishment clause

Answer 9

The part of the First Amendment that says the government cannot set up a religion

Question 10

free exercise clause

Answer 10

The part of the First Amendment that says the government shall not stop you from holding beliefs you choose.

Question 11

Freedom of belief or concionce

Answer 11

The government may not force you to believe believe in something if you don’t wish to do so.

Question 12

Tolerant

Answer 12

Being willing to let other people hold opinions that are different from your own.

Question 13

Boycott

Answer 13

An act of protest.

Question 14

Civil rights Act of 1964

Answer 14

This law ended segregation in public places.

Question 15

Civil war Amendments

Answer 15

The Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen Amendments passed after the Civil war.

Question 16

Equal protection clause

Answer 16

It Prohibits laws that unreasonably favor some groups over the others.

Question 17

Equal protection of the laws

Answer 17

means that state governments must not treat people differently unless there’s a fair reason.

Question 18

Segregate

Answer 18

Means to set apart from others.

Question 19

Voting Rights Act

Answer 19

It is one of the most important acts ever passed by Congress.

Question 20

Fiftteen Amendment

Answer 20

Protects your right to be treated fairly by the federal government.

Question 21

Fourteen Amendment

Answer 21

protects your right to be treated fairly by your state and local governments.

Question 22

Right to due pieces

Answer 22

is the right to be treated fairly by your government.

Question 23

`Civil rights movement

Answer 23

People worked together to change unfair laws.

Question 24

Grandfather Clause

Answer 24

A person could vote if his grandfather had been allowed to vote.

Question 25

Literacy test

Answer 25

A test to prove that a person is able to read and write.

Question 26

Ninteenth Amendment

Answer 26

Gave women the right to vote.

Question 27

Poll Tax

Answer 27

A tax that a person must pay to be allowed to vote.

Question 28

Twenty- fourth Amendment

Answer 28

The right to vote in a national election shall not be denied.

Question 29

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Answer 29

gives citizens eighteen years of age or older the right to vote in all elections.