Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

Which constitutional amendment provides for the expansion of individual rights found in the Bill of Rights?

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twenty-Second Amendment

The Constitution creates a "wall of separation between Church and State" in the words of the

• Elastic Clause

• Establishment Clause

• Exclusionary Clause

• Judiciary Clause

The Supreme Court case that overturned a state law setting aside time for "voluntary prayer" in public schools was

• Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe

• Lee v. Weisman

• Wallace v. Jaffree

• Lemon v. Kurtzman

Using actions rather than words to convey an idea would be an example of

• speech plus

• pure speech

• fee speech

• symbolic speech

Which Supreme Court case ruled that flag burning is a protected form of symbolic speech?

• Reno v. ACLU

• Miller v. California

• Texas v. Johnson

• Tinker v. Des Moines

The right of the government to take property for public use as long as the government provides just compensation for the property is called

• substantive due process

• eminent domain

• public domain

• procedural due process

The Supreme Court, in Mapp v. Ohio, ruled that evidence obtained without a search warrant could be excluded from trial in state courts. This finding upholds the constitutional guarantee of no unreasonable search and seizure found in the

• Fourth Amendment

• Fifth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• First Amendment

What government action brought an end to Jim Crow laws and legal segregation in America?

• the Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Presidential Executive Order 8802

• the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

• the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education

what has been the most recent government action taken to end discrimination against Native Americans in the United States?

• the American Indian Movement Act

• the Native American Tribal Act

• the Native American Language Act

• the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act

Which of the following prohibits gender discrimination in the workplace?

• Equal Pay Act

• Equal Employment Opportunity Act

• Women's Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Nineteenth Amendment