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Name the five basic freedoms does the First Amendment protect?
Religion, Assemble, Press, Petition, Speech
What do police officers have to read to accused people to make them aware of their rights? What amendment does this fall under?
Miranda Warning, 5th Amendment
This amendment allows citizens the right to bear arms.
2nd Amendment
The first ten amendments in the Constitution protecting citizens’ rights are referred to as?
The Bill of Rights
People cannot be tried for the same crime twice.
Double Jeopardy
Following established legal procedure, no matter how guilty a person may seem.
Due Process
Which Civil War Amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
The government can take private property for a public project as long as they give you a fair price.
Eminent Domain
The Fourteenth Amendment was in response to laws setup after the Civil War that limited the types of jobs or the amount of property African Americans known as
Black Codes
A sum of money you had to pay in order to vote was called a
poll tax
This amendment explains citizens have more rights than what is listed in the Constitution. (Hint: flying a plane)
9th Amendment
False speech that damages a person’s good name, character, or reputation.
Defamation
Rosa Parks’ actions to sit at the front of the bus inspired the African American community in Montgomery, AL to
boycott the bus system
In the case, Brown vs. Board of Education (Topeka, KS), what did the Supreme Court decide?
Segregation in schools is unconstitutional. They sided with the Brown family.
This word means the right to vote.
Suffrage
This amendment states that citizens have the right to have a jury in civil cases of $20 or more.
7th Amendment
The Voting Rights act of 1965 banned this obstacle discouraging African-Americans from voting?
Literacy Test
What was so significant by the 19th Amendment?
Gave women the right to vote.
Why was the voting age lowered to 18 in the 26th Amendment?
You're old enough to die in a war, so you should be able to vote for future leaders who send them off.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave African-American men the right to vote.