Chapter 4 Vocab

Question 1

freedoms to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment

Answer 1

civil liberty

Question 2

the banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas

Answer 2

censorship

Question 3

a formal request for government action

Answer 3

petition

Question 4

spoken untruths that are harmful to someone’s reputation

Answer 4

slander

Question 5

written untruths that are harmful to someone’s reputation

Answer 5

libel

Question 6

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

Answer 6

probable cause

Question 7

a document issued by a body called a grand jury that formally charges someone with a crime

Answer 7

indictment

Question 8

putting someone on trial for a crime of which he or she was previously found not guilty

Answer 8

double jeopardy

Question 9

following established legal procedures

Answer 9

due process

Question 10

the right of government to take private property for public use

Answer 10

eminent domain

Question 11

laws from after the Civil War that kept African Americans from holding certain jobs, gave them few property rights, and limited their rights in other ways

Answer 11

black codes

Question 12

the right to vote

Answer 12

suffrage

Question 13

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

Answer 13

poll tax