This is a formal request.
What is a Petition?
This is money forfeited if an accused person fails to appear in court.
What is Bail?
This is money paid before casting a ballot.
What is poll tax?
This is the social separation of races.
What is segregation?
What is the Bill of Rights?
This crime involves harming a person's reputation by printing lies about him or her.
What is Libel?
What is a search warrant?
This is the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
What is discrimination?
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?
This is the banning of printed materials, films, and other forms of media merely because they contain alarming or offensive ideas.
What is Censorship?
This is the right of the government to take away private property for public use.
What is eminent domain?
This amendment extended the right to vote to women.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the singling out of a person because of their race or ethnicity.
What is Racial Profiling?
This is a small, local army made up of volunteer soldiers. It is referenced in the second amendment.
What is a militia?
What is slander?
This is the amendment that protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This amendment guarantees suffrage to African Americans.
What is the 15th Amendment?
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?
This is a formal charge by a grand jury accusing a person of a crime.
What is an indictment?
This is the reason congress is prohibited from establishing an official religion.
What is Freedom of Religion?
Guaranteed by the First Amendment.
This amendment states that an accused person is entitled to have a lawyer.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This Amendment outlawed slavery, and any sort of forced labor, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This man organized boycotts, marches, and demonstrations to promote the civil rights movement.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, petition, and the press are all freedoms granted by this amendment.
What is the First Amendment?