B2--content vocab #1 ch. 4

Question 0

Civil Liberties

Answer 0

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

Question 1

4.1 content vocab

Answer 1

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Question 2

Censorship

Answer 2

Banning printed materials and film merely because they contain alarming and offensive ideas.

Question 3

Petition

Answer 3

Formal request

Question 4

Slander

Answer 4

Spreading spoken lies

Question 5

Libel

Answer 5

Lies that are printed

Question 6

4.2 content vocab

Answer 6

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Question 7

Search warrant

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Indictment

Answer 8

A formal charge by a group of citizens

Question 9

Grand Jury

Answer 9

People that review the evidence against the accused

Question 10

Double jeopardy

Answer 10

People that are accused of a crime and judged not guilty may not be put on trial again for the same crime

Question 11

Due process

Answer 11

Following established legal procedures

Question 12

Eminent domain

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Bail

Answer 13

Sum of money used as a security deposit

Question 14

4.3 content vocab

Answer 14

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Question 15

Suffrage

Answer 15

The right to vote

Question 16

Poll tax

Answer 16

Voters are required to pay a sum of money before casting a ballot

Question 17

4.4 context vocab

Answer 17

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Question 18

Discrimination

Answer 18

Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group

Question 19

Segregation

Answer 19

A social separation of the races

Question 20

Civil rights

Answer 20

The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law

Question 21

Affirmative action

Answer 21

Program to try to make up for past discrimination

Question 22

Racial profiling

Answer 22

Being singled out as suspects because of the way the look