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Chapter 4 Test Flashcards

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1
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The ban of printed materials or film because they contain alarming or offensive ideas

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Censorship

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A formal request usually for government action

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Petition

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Spoken lies are harmful to a person’s reputation

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Slander

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Written lines that are harmful to a persons reputation

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Libel

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What are the five freedom is protected by the First Amendment

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Speech religion press petition assembly

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What are some examples of press

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Newspapers, magazines, television, radio, Internet, books

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What are some examples of speech

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Face-to-face conversation clothes art music meetings lectures

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What are some limitations to the First Amendment

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

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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

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Tinker v. Des Moines school district

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

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Free-speech

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

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Civil liberties

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

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Search warrant

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

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Self incrimination

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

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Eminent domain

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

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Probable cause

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A person officially charged with a crime

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Accused

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A formal charge by grand jury

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Indictment

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

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Double Jeopardy

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Following established legal procedures

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Due process

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

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Bail

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Which amendment protects against illegal searches and seizures

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Fourth

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What does the Second Amendment do

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Give you the right to bear arms

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Which amendment deals with civil cases

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Seventh

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What are civil cases

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Lawsuits that arise when people’s rights are in conflict

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

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$20

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What is the sixth amendment do

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Guarantees a trial by jury

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What are five specific rights given by the sixth amendment

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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

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

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Third

29
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What did the ninth amendment do

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

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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

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Fifth

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What is the eighth amendment do

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No cruel or unusual punishment

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

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Tenth

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The right to vote

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Suffrage, franchise

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

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Poll taxes

35
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Which three amendments are nicknamed the Civil War amendments

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13th 14th and 15th

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What did the 13th amendment do

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Outlawed slavery

37
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What are two ways that black codes restricted African-Americans

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

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What is the 14th amendment do

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

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What is the 15th amendment do

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

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What did the 17th amendment do

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Enabled voters to elect senators directly

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What did the 19th amendment do

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Gave women the right to vote

42
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Who are some woman’s suffrage movement leaders

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

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Who did the 23rd amendment get the rights to vote

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Residents of Washington DC

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What did 24th amendment do

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Eliminated poll taxes

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What did the 26th amendment do

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Guaranteed the right to vote at age 18

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What did the 18th amendment do you

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Prohibited making, selling, transporting, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages

(Prohibition)

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Which amendment repealed the 18th amendment

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21st

48
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Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group

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Discrimination

49
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The social separation of races

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Segregation

50
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The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law

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Civil rights

51
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Programs intended to make up for past discrimination but hoping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities

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Affirmative action’s

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What were sit ins

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

53
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Singling out in individual as a suspect due to appearance and ethnicity

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Racial profiling

54
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What did Jim Crow laws require

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

55
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National Association for the advancement of colored people

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NAACP

56
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Worked through the courts to challenge laws and customs that tonight African-Americans their constitutional rights

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NAACP

57
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What court case in which the NAACP lawyers argued successfully that segregation in school is unconstitutional. It ended segregation in schools

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Brown v. Board

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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

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

59
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Prohibited it discrimination in public facilities, employment, education, voter registration

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Civil rights act of 1964

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What were the freedom rides/freedom writers

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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

61
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A violent acts against a person because of his or her race, color, national origin, gender, or disability

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Hate crime

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