Vocabulary
Banning printed materials or films because of sensitive material.
What is censorship?
What is the 12th Amendment?
These states refused to sign the Constitution without a list of rights guaranteeing individual freedoms.
What are smaller states and southern states?
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were considered the ___________ War amendments.
What is Civil ?
Sat in the front of the bus and was arrested.
Who is Rosa Parks?
A formal request for the gov't to act.
What is petition?
Inauguration day was moved from March 4th to January.
What is the 20th amendment?
The number of years it took after the B.O.R. was added until the Constitution was ratified.
What is/are two (2) years?
This amendment provides that you will be paid fairly for your property.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Did not want to walk a long distance to school and fought the school system for enrollment.
Who is Linda Brown?
A document that formally charges someone with a crime.
What is indictment?
Income tax is now being collected.
What is the 16th amendment?
This bill offers 5 individual protections.
What is the first amendment?
This amendment confirms that you will pay a certain amount of taxes each year based on income earned.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Demonstrators occupy a public space and refuse to leave until their demands are met.
What are "sit-ins?"
What is suffrage?
Presidential succession is established.
What is the 25th amendment?
This person was the primary author of the B.O.R. and considered the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madision?
This amendment protects us from a dictatorship by limiting the POTUS to two (2) terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
State and local laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
What are "Jim Crow" laws?
Written lies about someone.
What is libel?
A person cannot be denied the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
Which country had a similar Bill of Rights that the colonists used to shape their version?
What is England?
This amendment protects us from having to pay to vote.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This act banned segregation and separate facilities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?