When we can state our opinions in public or private without the fear of being punished by the Government.
What is Free Speech?
100
A strong reason
What is probable cause?
100
This word means taken away.
What does eliminated mean?
100
This means the freedoms we have to think and act without interference from the government or without fearing that we will be treated unfairly.
What are Civil Liberties?
100
These people were enslaved in 1865.
Before what year were African Americans enslaved?
200
Banning printed materials or films because they have alarming or offensive ideas.
What is Censorship?
200
A document issued by the Grand Jury.
What is an indictment?
200
This Amendment ended slavery.
What did the Thirteenth Amendment end?
200
This Amendment protecs five basic freedoms.
How many freedoms does the first amendment protect?
200
Someone can vote for a president 21 and over.
At what age can someone vote at?
300
A formal request for the government to act.
What is a Petition?
300
It means following set of legal procedures
What is the due process?
300
The Southerners made this law.
Who made the black codes?
300
This Amendment states that people cannot be made to testify against themselves.
What does the fifth amendment state?
300
This word means the right to vote.
What does Suffrage mean?
400
You cannot spread lies or rumors about a person and no person has the right to speak or write in a way that leads to criminal acts as a limit for this right.
What are the limits for a free speech (Freedom of Speech)?
400
This Amendment did not add anything to the ratified constitution.
What did the last amendment (tenth amendment) do to the ratified constitution?
400
This law kept African Americans from holding certain jobs, gave them few property rights, and limited their rights in other ways.
What is the black code?
400
This is a document granting the holder permission to do something.
What is a license?
400
This amendment was ratified in 1870.
When was the fifteenth ratified?
500
It protects our right to gather in groups for any reason.
What right does the first American Amendment protect for us?
500
You get this right from a judge.
Who do you get a search warrant from?
500
Many Southern states had to do this because the fee not only had to be paid for the current year but the previous unpaid years as well.
Why did many Southern states had to pay poll tax?
500
This right states that all other rights not spelled out in the Constitution are retained, or kept, by the people.
What does the Ninth Amendment state?
500
This amendment aimed at African Americans.
What group of people did the fifteenth Amendment aim for?