Unit 3 Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Test

Which is an example of restricted free speech?

• promoting an idea that is unpopular with most people

• telling everyone you lost your job when you are still employed

• revealing a confidential e-mail that was sent to you by mistake

• writing an article that urges people to violently protest unfair treatment

The results of Supreme Court proceedings that we consider landmark cases can be

• used as precedent to set standards for future cases.

• overturned in appeals

• used to retry past cases

• vetoed by the president

The right to privacy includes

• the freedom to be secure at home

• the right to challenge authority

• the freedom to own private property

• the right to publicly express personal opinions

Accused persons have the right to

• refuse to appear in court.

• hear exactly what they are being accused of

• move their trials to another state

• request a jury that favors their side in the case

Who wrote the bill of rights?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• James Madison

• George Mason

• James Harrison

After the Civil War, the federal government began to extend civil rights to African Americans by

• passing amendments to the constitution

• signing the Emancipation Proclamation

• paying reparations to them

• helping them move to the Northern states

Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

[N]or shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

This clause ensures that

• anyone can enforce the law as long as they are citizens.

• all states follow similar rules and legal processes

• any state can deprive its citizens of due process

• all non-citizens are not covered by due process

The enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment states that Congress has the authority to

• grant citizenship to people

• change the Constitution

• enforce only the Bill of Rights

• make laws to apply the amendment

In 1868, what was the most important reason to include the equal protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Women’s rights activists wanted equal protection.

• African Americans were not protected under the law.

• Southern whites were not protected under the law.

• immigrants wanted equal protection

The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment says a naturalized person

• is not a citizen and cannot become a citizen of the United States.

• is a citizen, just like someone who was born in the United States

• must have been born in the United States, not in another country.

• must have been in a country other than the United States