Civics Ch. 4 Review

Which amendment would lawyers use to support an argument that stated that the punishment their client received was too serious for the crime he or she committed?

• 3rd

• 8th

• 23rd

• 13th

When a group of citizens gathered to protest against a law that Congress was considering passing, the group was demonstrating freedom

• of the press

• to slander

• to petition

• of assembly

The Nineteenth Amendment (1920) granted suffrage to which of the following groups?

• Hispanics

• teenagers

• women

• African Americans

The Seventeenth Amendment gave Americans a greater voice in their government by

• allowing people to directly elect their president

• allowing people to directly elect senators

• allowing people to directly elect governors

• allowing people to directly elect members of the House of Representatives

The Tenth Amendment states that powers not given to the national government by the Constitution must be

• added as amendments

• reviewed by the Supreme Court

• reserved to the states or people

• considered civil liberties

If the federal government wanted to build a highway on land that you owed, the government would

• let you decide whether or not to sell your home to it.

• have to find a new location for the highway.

• be able to take your home away without paying for it.

• be able to take your home, but would need to pay a fair price for it.

Which of the following people described the first amendment as creating a “wall of separation between church and state?"

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• John Peter Zenger

• Thomas Jefferson

The rights to have a trial by jury and to call witnesses in one’s defense are examples of

• 13th Amendment freedoms

• due process

• constitutional reforms from the 1900's

• affirmative action

Which amendment protects a citizen’s right to own guns?

• 2nd

• 13th

• 1st

• 4th

If a police officer wanted to search your home to find evidence of a crime, you would be able to say that the officer needed to get a search warrant because of the

• 2nd

• 3rd

• 4th

• 5th