Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens

____ are the freedoms to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair treatment.

• Censorship

• Due process rights

• Civil liberties

• Libel

What is the main goal of the justice system?

• Equal Justice Under the Law

• Delivering Justice to those wronged

• Rehabilitating Criminals

• Preventing Crime

Which action would not be covered by freedom of speech?

• wearing armbands to protest government policy

• threatening someone whom you think has committed a crime against you

• conducting a Web site that criticizes public figures

• telling your friend in a phone conversation that you disrespect the president

The Nineteenth Amendment extended ____ to women.

• civil liberties

• equal pay

• suffrage

• civil rights

The right to ____ means the right to express one’s ideas to the government.

• petition

• eminent domain

• slander

• libel

Lies that one tells verbally that can harm one's reputation are called _______

• petition

• eminent domain

• slander

• libel

Which landmark Supreme Court decision ruled that at the time of arrest suspects cannot be questioned until informed of their rights?

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Roe v. Wade

• Reed v. Reed

• Miranda v. Arizona

Jane Roe was unable to receive a legal abortion in Texas ____

• because Texas did not have an abortion law.

• because abortion was unsafe in Texas.

• because she did not have enough money.

• because Texan law allowed abortion only in cases where continuation of the pregnancy appeared to threaten the mother’s life.

The Americans with Disabilities Act bans discrimination against persons with physical or mental disabilities in all of these areas except ____.

• employment

• transportation

• private accommodations

• public accommodations

What did the Thirteenth Amendment accomplish?

• It let each state decide whether slavery should be legal.

• It made segregation illegal.

• It freed enslaved people in the United States.

• It made segregation in schools illegal.