Religion
This clause ensures that the government cannot force any particular religion upon you.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This unprotected speech is when someone says something that is likely to instigate a fight.
What are fighting words?
If you wanted to write a biography about a person, do you need to get their permission to publish it?
No you don't
This social protest saw African Americans refuse to ride public transportation during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This website is the largest online petition website with thousands of informal petitions.
What is change.org?
This clause allows you to practice any religion you please, or no religion at all.
What is the Free Exercise Clause
This form of speech, which is unprotected, involves making false statements that harm the reputation of another person.
What is defamation?
In a defamation case, L. B. Sullivan sued this company after they ran an advertisement defending Martin Luther King Jr.
What is the New York Times?
The government is allowed to regulate expressive activity in public, like protests, through reasonable _____, ______, ________ restrictions.
What are time, place, and manner restrictions?
Even though not American, this famous document, presented to King John of England in 1215, is considered one of the earliest examples of a formal petition to limit the powers of a monarch.
What is the Magna Carta?
This term describes the principle that government must maintain an attitude of neutrality toward religion.
What is the "separation of church and state?"
This type of speech, unprotected by the First Amendment, involves sexually explicit material that violates community standards.
What are obscenities?
Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis are all this type of journalist.
What is a muckraker?
This 2020 event, marked by a global pandemic, saw numerous restrictions on public gatherings, raising questions about the limits of freedom of assembly.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
In 1866, these two women's suffragists spearheaded a petition to Congress in an attempt to get women the right to vote.
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This Supreme Court case in 1962 ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.
What is Engel v. Vitale (1962)?
This 1989 Supreme Court case ruled that burning the American flag is protected speech under the First Amendment.
What was the name of the film directed by Steven Spielberg that was responsible for the PG-13 movie rating by the Motion Picture Association.
This is the name of of Illinois printer who died when a mob violently attacked him at an abolition protest.
Who is Elijah Lovejoy?
This petition, drafted in Seneca Falls, NY, called for women's suffrage and equal rights for women in various aspects of society.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This 1990 Supreme Court decision held that the state could deny unemployment benefits to a person fired for violating a state prohibition on the use of peyote, even though the use was part of a religious ritual.
What is Employment Division v. Smith?
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. coined this famous phrase in that now relates to true threats speech.
What is "yelling fire in a crowded theater."
This style of journalism, often associated with the Spanish-American War, uses little to no researched news in favor of exaggerated stories associated with this color.
What is yellow?
This is the name of the party, headed by Alice Paul, that became the first to picket at the White House.
What is the National Woman's Party?
In a final attempt to avoid war, this petition was sent to King George III, but the king refused to even read it.
What is the Olive Branch petition?