Civil Liberties Quiz

A group of people holding picket signs and protesting are exercising their right to:

• Civil Disobedience
• Assembly and Free Speech
• Sedition
• Freedom of Religion

What is the name for the first ten amendments?

• Consitution

• Preamble

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

What is the term refers to what the government must do as far as ensuring equal protection and freedom from discrimination?

• civil rights

• civil liberties

• civil air patrol

• civil actions

What term states that no state can deny basic rights to its people and must act fairly according to the law, per the 14th amendment?

• establishment

• due process

• enurmerated

• supremacy

What is the name for the laws that discriminated against people because of their race?

• Southern

• Slavery

• Jim Crow

• Integration

The free exercise of the 1st Amendment clause holds that people have the right to?

• practice religion as they choose

• express themselves through speech as they choose

• evade taxes if they can run fast

• donate money to any political campaign they choose

Gave all citizens born in the United States citizenship.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Kneily Stewart

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Lester Maddox

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

• Ended segregation in schools

• Ended discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or national origin.

• Gave all African Americans who were born in the United States the right to vote.

• Gave all people the right to sit wherever they wanted on the city bus.