The First Amendment
Vocabulary
Extending the Bill of Rights
Vocabulary
Comprehension
100
What are civil liberties?
The freedoms we have to act and think without government interference or fear of unfair treatment.
100
What is a grand jury?
A group of citizens that review evidence.
100
What is suffrage?
The right to vote.
100
What are civil rights?
The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law.
100
Who was Rosa Parks?
An African American woman that refused to give up her bus seat for a white person.
200
What is censorship?
Banning materials or films merely becasue they contain alarming or offensive ideas.
200
What is indictment?
A formal charge by a group of citizens called a grand jury, who review evidence against the accused.
200
Double Jeopardy! Make a wager.
What are poll taxes, and how much do they currently charge for poll taxes?
200
What is discrimination? Give an example.
Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group.
200
What were sit-ins?
African Americans sat at white-only restaurants to protest segregation.
300
What is a petition?
A formal request.
300
What is Double Jeopardy (not in this game, but in Civics)?
People who are accused of a crime and judged not guilty may NOT be put on trial again for the same crime.
300
What is a search warrant?
A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspect's home or business and take specific items as evidence.
300
What is segregation?
The social seperation of races.
300
What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. give?
I Have a Dream.
400
Double Jeopardy! Make a wager.
What are slander and libel?
400
What is eminent domain?
The right of teh government to take private property---usually land---for public use.
400
The 13th-15th Amendments are known as the Civil War Amendments---What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
The Thirteenth Amendment officially outlawed slavery in the U.S and freed thousands of African Americans.
400
What is affirmative action?
Programs to try to make up for past discrimination.
400
Why did the Twenty Sixth Amendment change the voting age from 21 to 18?
People in their teens bravely fought for America, but, by law, they they weren't old enough to vote for the president that sent them to battle. When many young Americans in were fighting in the Vietnam war in 1971, this changed.
500
List 2 of the 5 First Amendment Freedoms.
Freedom of Religion Freedom of Speech Freedom of Press Freedom of Assembly Freedom to Petition
500
The Fifth Amendment states, "No one may be denied life, liberty, or property without the due process of law." What does "without the due process of law" mean?
It means that legal procedures must be followed to take someone's property, liberties (ex.: sending someone to jail, or taking away the right to vote), etc.
500
What is the 19th Amendment?
The Nineteenth Amendment protected the right of women to vote in all national and state elections.
500
What is racial profiling?
being singled out as suspects for because of the way a person looks.
500
What was Brown vs. The Board of Education?
A decision by the Supreme Court that ruled segregation in the schools was unconstititutional (because it violated the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection under the law).
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