Chapter 4 Test Flashcards
The ban of printed materials or film because they contain alarming or offensive ideas
Censorship
A formal request usually for government action
Petition
Spoken lies are harmful to a person’s reputation
Slander
Written lines that are harmful to a persons reputation
Libel
What are the five freedom is protected by the First Amendment
Speech religion press petition assembly
What are some examples of press
Newspapers, magazines, television, radio, Internet, books
What are some examples of speech
Face-to-face conversation clothes art music meetings lectures
What are some limitations to the First Amendment
We can’t endanger Americans/government, can’t start riots, can’t slander or libel
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
Tinker v. Des Moines school district
The Supreme Court ruled in the court case that the armbands or form of what kind of speech protected by the First Amendment
Free-speech
The freedoms we have to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair treatment
Civil liberties
A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspects home or business and take specific items as evidence
Search warrant
Giving evidence about yourself that could lead to you being found guilty of a crime
Self incrimination
The right of the government to take private property usually land for public use
Eminent domain
A strong reason to think that a person or property was involved in a crime
Probable cause
A person officially charged with a crime
Accused
A formal charge by grand jury
Indictment
Putting someone on trial for crime of which he or she was previously found not guilty. The Fifth Amendment protects against this
Double Jeopardy
Following established legal procedures
Due process
A sum of money used as a security deposit to make sure that any accused person returns for trial
Bail
Which amendment protects against illegal searches and seizures
Fourth
What does the Second Amendment do
Give you the right to bear arms
Which amendment deals with civil cases
Seventh
What are civil cases
Lawsuits that arise when people’s rights are in conflict
How much money must a case involved for a civil case to require a jury
$20
What is the sixth amendment do
Guarantees a trial by jury
What are five specific rights given by the sixth amendment
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
Which amendment says American citizens do not have to house soldiers during peacetime
Third
What did the ninth amendment do
It’s stated that citizens have more rights than those in the Bill of Rights
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
Fifth
What is the eighth amendment do
No cruel or unusual punishment
Which amendment states that powers are not guaranteed to the national government by the Constitution I reserved for the states
Tenth
The right to vote
Suffrage, franchise
A sum of money required of voters before they are committed to cast a ballot
Poll taxes
Which three amendments are nicknamed the Civil War amendments
13th 14th and 15th
What did the 13th amendment do
Outlawed slavery
What are two ways that black codes restricted African-Americans
Kept him from holding certain jobs and gave them to you property rights
What is the 14th amendment do
Defined a citizen as anyone born or naturalized in the United States
What is the 15th amendment do
Said that no state could take away a persons voting rights on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What did the 17th amendment do
Enabled voters to elect senators directly
What did the 19th amendment do
Gave women the right to vote
Who are some woman’s suffrage movement leaders
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony
Who did the 23rd amendment get the rights to vote
Residents of Washington DC
What did 24th amendment do
Eliminated poll taxes
What did the 26th amendment do
Guaranteed the right to vote at age 18
What did the 18th amendment do you
Prohibited making, selling, transporting, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages
(Prohibition)
Which amendment repealed the 18th amendment
21st
Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group
Discrimination
The social separation of races
Segregation
The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law
Civil rights
Programs intended to make up for past discrimination but hoping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities
Affirmative action’s
What were sit ins
African-Americans occupied seats or sat on the floor of an establishment as a form of organize protest
Singling out in individual as a suspect due to appearance and ethnicity
Racial profiling
What did Jim Crow laws require
And African-Americans and whites to be separated in public places
National Association for the advancement of colored people
NAACP
Worked through the courts to challenge laws and customs that tonight African-Americans their constitutional rights
NAACP
What court case in which the NAACP lawyers argued successfully that segregation in school is unconstitutional. It ended segregation in schools
Brown v. Board
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
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Prohibited it discrimination in public facilities, employment, education, voter registration
Civil rights act of 1964
What were the freedom rides/freedom writers
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
A violent acts against a person because of his or her race, color, national origin, gender, or disability
Hate crime
