Civil Rights/Liberties
What are your basic rights outlined in the Bill of Rights called?
What are, Civil Liberties?
Which amendment outlined the Equal Protection Clause?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Name of the domestic policy that aimed to rebuild the South’s infrastructure and establish a new social and political culture that included African Americans as equals?
What is Reconstruction?
What does suffrage mean?
What is, the right to vote?
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech.”
What does abridging mean in this quote?
What is restricting free speech?
Name of the Supreme Court case that ruled you must provide free council to those who cannot afford it.
What is Gideon V. Wainwright?
Which of the following is NOT a Civil Liberty
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Right to Vote
Right to Assemble
What is right to vote?
What does the equal protection clause state?
That the law is applied equally and fairly to those accused of disobeying the law and that the government cannot make a law interfering with anyone’s basic freedoms.
Laws in the South that allowed whites to segregate and create obstructions to African American voters?
What are Jim Crow laws?
What amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
What is The 15th Amendment ?
What does the Establishment Clause of the 1st amendment do?
What is, preventing the government from favoring one religion?
What is it called when a defendant agrees to admit they are guilty of a criminal offense for a lighter sentence or charge?
What is a plea bargain or plea deal?
True or False: Civil Liberties limit the ability of the government to act
What is true?
Act that requires buildings to have access ramps and bathrooms for persons who need wheelchairs.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Court case that said segregation was legal based on the “separate but equal doctrine”
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
What Amendment outlawed poll taxes?
What is the 24th Amendment?
What court case banned public schools from encouraging a prayer?
What is Engel v. Vitale?
What are the two ways you can become a citizen?
What is being born in the U.S. or following the naturalization process?
What is the term when we require the government to do something to protect its citizens from discrimination?
What are Civil Rights?
What did the 13th Amendment do?
What is abolish slavery?
Segregation based on SOCIAL CUSTOMS, not LAWS
What is De Facto Segregation?
What did the 19th Amendment do?
What is, gave women the right to vote?
This case set the precedent for allowing students to protest in schools, as long as it is not disruptive.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
Term given to when we limit the total number of immigrants from one country
What are immigration quotas?
What are the rules the government must follow to protect the rights of individuals during legal proceeding?
What is the Due Process?
What does franchise mean?
What is the right to vote?
Segregation that is based on LAWS.
Ex: Jim Crow Laws
What is De Jure Segregation?
What did the 26th Amendment do?
What is, lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
Name of the Acts that banned any interference with US war effort, including criticizing the war in any way.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
What is it called when an immigrant is fleeing a country that is dangerous
What is seeking asylum?