Vocab
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, guaranteeing our god given rights.
What is the bill of rights?
Could not vote in early America.
What is African Americans and women?
An ____ ___ ___ ___ punishes individuals for committing and act that was legal when the act was committed.
What is ex post facto law
Legislative, executive, and judicial.
The use of actions and symbols, in addition to or instead of words, to express ideas
What is Symbolic speech?
An establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
What is the first amendment?
Both are about the usage of the right to vote.
What is the relation between suffrage and disenfranchise?
The active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government.
What is civil disobedience?
535 people are a part of ___ ___ ____
What is the House of Reps?
A false expression that injures a person's reputation
What is defamation?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.
What is the 4th amendment?
No state can deprive ANY citizen of the right to vote on account of race, color,or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th amendment?
Many of our liberties were added by the ___ ___ ____, ratified in 1791.
What is the bill of rights?
The current acting speaker of the house of reps.
What is James K. Polk?
A ballot that allows a person to vote without going to the polls on election day
What is the absentee ballot?
The right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwisereexamined in any court.
What is the 7th amendment?
Any laws requiring racial segregation in the south between the end of the Reconstruction period to the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950's
What are Jim Crow laws?
_____ _____ are basic freedoms while ____ ______ are the basic rights to be free from discrimination.
What is civil liberties and civil rights?
The 13 stripes on the flag represent...
What is the original 13 colonies?
Policies that give preference to women or minorities for jobs, promotions, admission to schools, or other benefits, in order to make up for past or current discrimination
What is affirmation action?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reservedto the states respectively, or to the people.
What is the 10th amendment
A struggle by African Americans between 1950 and 1960 to be FREE of racial discrimination and to achieve rights, freedoms, and equal opportunities
What is the civil rights movement?
Freedom of religion, speech, of the press, to assemble, and to petition the government.
What is the 5 civil liberties?
__ states are in the USA.
What is 50?