The First Amendment
Other Guarantees in the Bill of Rights
Extending the Bill of Rights
The Civil Rights Struggle
Lagniappe
100

This is a formal request.

What is a Petition?

100

This is money forfeited if an accused person fails to appear in court.

What is Bail?

100

This is money paid before casting a ballot.

What is poll tax?

100

This is the social separation of races.

What is segregation?

100
The first ten amendments to the constitution are known collectively as this.

What is the Bill of Rights?

200

This crime involves harming a person's reputation by printing lies about him or her.

What is Libel?

200
This is a court order which allows police to search a suspect's home or business and take specific items as evidence.

What is a search warrant?


200

This is the right to vote.

What is suffrage?

200
This is the unfair treatment of others based on prejudice against a specific group.

What is discrimination?

200

This means that a person is being charged of the same exact crime and it is illegal according to the Fifth Amendment.

What is double jeopardy?

300

This is the banning of printed materials, films, and other forms of media merely because they contain alarming or offensive ideas.

What is Censorship?

300

This is the right of the government to take away private property for public use.

What is eminent domain?

300

This amendment extended the right to vote to women.

What is the 19th Amendment?

300

This is the singling out of a person because of their race or ethnicity.

What is Racial Profiling?

300

This is a small, local army made up of volunteer soldiers.  It is referenced in the second amendment.

What is a militia?

400
This is the crime that involves harming a person's reputation by speaking lies about him or her.

What is slander?

400

This is the amendment that protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures.

What is the Fourth Amendment?

400

This amendment guarantees suffrage to African Americans.

What is the 15th Amendment?

400

This was a practice which encouraged the hiring and promoting of minorities and women in fields that were traditionally closed to them.

What is Affirmative Action?

400

This is a formal charge by a grand jury accusing a person of a crime.

What is an indictment?

500

This is the reason congress is prohibited from establishing an official religion.

What is Freedom of Religion?

Guaranteed by the First Amendment.

500

This amendment states that an accused person is entitled to have a lawyer.

What is the Sixth Amendment?

500

This Amendment outlawed slavery, and any sort of forced labor, except as punishment for a crime.

What is the 13th Amendment?

500

This man organized boycotts, marches, and demonstrations to promote the civil rights movement.

Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

500

Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, petition, and the press are all freedoms granted by this amendment.

What is the First Amendment?

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