unit 3

Question 1

social contract theory

Answer 1

give up some rights for protection of others 

Question 2

obscenity 

Answer 2

something inappropriate (not protected by first amendment)

Question 3

Grand jury

Answer 3

decides if there’s enough evidence to indict

Question 4

indictment

Answer 4

Grand jury decides (formal accusation of a crime)

Question 5

Bill of attainder

Answer 5

A legislative act that inflicts punishment without a court trial 

Question 6

The voting act of 1965 

Answer 6

made the 15th amendment work (took away poll taxes, literacy tests)

Question 7

Civil rights act of 1964

Answer 7

made segregation illegal 

Question 8

affirmative action

Answer 8

requires employers to take positive steps to remedy the effects of past discrimination 

Question 9

equal protection clause 

Answer 9

States must follow the Bill of Rights 

Question 10

Emmett till 

Answer 10

A murdered black teen who’s perpetrators were not found guilty (sparked civil rights movement)

Question 11

Malcom X
Martin Luther King Jr

Answer 11

Fought for African-American rights during civil rights movement 

Question 12

Jim crow laws

Answer 12

racist laws that kept blacks from voting 

Question 13

Rosa Parks

Answer 13

refused to give up her seat, which sparked civil rights movement, and made her the face of the Montgomery bus boycott 

Question 14

Little rock nine

Answer 14

9 black students who integrated Little Rock Central high school.
Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect them 

Question 15

what role did the concept of federalism play prior to and during the civil rights movement? 

Answer 15

Southern states said they had rights to Jim Crow laws because of the 10th amendment but the 14th amendment shut it down 

Question 16

3 reasons students have less freedoms in school 

Answer 16

disruption of learning environment, school, safety, in loco parentis 

Question 17

Miranda v Arizona

Answer 17

regarding the 5th amendment: you don’t have to self incriminate & miranda rights

Question 18

Gideon v Wainwright 

Answer 18

regarding the 6th amendment: have right to a lawyer 

Question 19

Mapp v Ohio 

Answer 19

regarding the 4th amendment: made exclusionary rule 

Question 20

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 20

Upheld segregation & established “separate but equal”

Question 21

Brown v Board of Education 

Answer 21

only ended segregation in schools (ruled on the equal protection clause)

Question 22

what can the government restrict on freedom of assembly?

Answer 22

Time, place and manner

Question 23

If someone is not born in the US, how can they still be a natural born citizen?

Answer 23

they must have one US citizen parent