Vital Vocabulary
A specific right or advantage available only to a particular person or group.
What is a Privilege?
This amendment includes the rights to protest, free speech, and freedom of religion.
What is the First Amendment?
Showing up for demonstrations and/or causes you believe in.
What is Activism?
This amendment gives people the right to own and carry guns.
What is the Second Amendment?
This American Indian group is petitioning the government to honor the Treaty of New Echota, which would give them congressional representation.
Who are the Cherokee Nation?
Unity or agreement on a feeling or action; mutual support within a group.
What is Solidarity?
This amendment includes freedom from self incrimination, and freedom from double jeopardy.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
The first phase of a movement or project is building power, finding people to help, and putting together a plan of action.
What is Organizing?
This amendments gives people the freedom from having to board soldiers in their homes.
This art piece in front of the London School of economics showed a globe of the earth in this different way.
What is upside down?
A process of building and nurturing supportive relationships with underrepresented, marginalized, or discriminated individuals or groups with the aim of advancing inclusion.
What is Allyship?
This amendment protects citizens from illegal search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The second phase is spreading the word about the movement or project to gain support and followers.
What is Mobilizing?
This amendment states that powers not granted to the Federal government by the Constitution are up to the States to decide.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This amendment states that all people born in the U.S. are citizens, all U.S. citizens are afforded the same rights, and that those rights cannot be taken away without the due process of law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
When something leads to an action or event happening, this is what it is called.
What is a Cause?
This amendment protects rights that are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
A person or people with an interest or concern in an issue.
What is a Stakeholder?
This amendment bans excesive bails and fines, and gives people the freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This United Nations document lists both civil and political rights, as well as economic and social rights that belong to everyone in the world.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
When something happens because of an action, this is what it is called.
What is a Consequence?
This amendment gives people the right to a jury in civil cases.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
A person or organization that cooperates with or helps another in a particular activity.
What is an Ally?
This amendment gives people the right to a speed and public trial with an impartial jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This is what the U.S. Bill of Rights consists of.
What are the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution?