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Civil Rights/Civil Liberties

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution are called....

a)

The Declaration of Independence

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

The Civil Rights Act of 1968

d)

The Magna Carta

2.

Protections of citizens from unwarranted government actions is called....

a)

Civil Abuses

b)

Civil Rights

c)

Civil Liberties

d)

Civil Service

3.

The government's responsibility to protect all groups and their rights is called....

a)

Civil Rights

b)

Civil Liberties

c)

Civil Service

d)

Civil Declarations

4.

Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Speech are guaranteed in the .....

a)

First Amendment

b)

Second Amendment

c)

Fifth Amendment

d)

Fourteenth Amendment

5.

Letters that inspired Freedom of Press, which criticized the British government before the American Revolution were known as....

a)

Snowden Letters

b)

Federalist Letters

c)

Ellsberg Letters

d)

Cato's Letters

6.

This person leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times exposing the American involvement in Vietnam.....

a)

Cato

b)

Edward Snowden

c)

Daniel Ellsberg

d)

Alexander Hamilton

7.

This ex CIA agent leaked classified documents about U.S. national security....

a)

Cato

b)

Daniel Ellsberg

c)

Alexander Hamilton

d)

Edward Snowden

8.

The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to escape....

a)

suppression of speech

b)

religious persecution

c)

poverty

d)

disease

9.

The first colony established by Roger Williams that granted religious freedom to all citizens was....

a)

Rhode Island

b)

Massachusetts

c)

New Jersey

d)

Georgia

10.

The main reason that the United States had Freedom of Speech is so that its citizens can criticize....

a)

each other

b)

their neighbors

c)

their families

d)

the government

11.

All of the following are symbolic speech EXCEPT....

a)

wearing armbands

b)

creating podcasts

c)

carrying signs

d)

burning American flags

12.

The only speech not guaranteed in the First Amendment is....

a)

hate speech

b)

anti government protests

c)

fighting words

d)

loud speech

13.

The main purpose that the framers of the Constitution include the right to bear arms is to provide....

a)

self defense

b)

money for gun sellers

c)

a humane way of killing others

d)

recreational fun

14.

What is the only organization that can bring criminal charges against a citizen?

a)

the government

b)

the framers

c)

PETA

d)

schools

15.

Under Due Process Laws,what is the name given to a formal charge of a crime based on evidence?

a)

arrest

b)

subpoena

c)

indictment

d)

sentence

16.

When you don't have to testify against yourself in a criminal trial, it is known as.....

a)

pleading the First

b)

pleading the Second

c)

pleading the Fifth

d)

lying

17.

What kind of trial are you guaranteed in the 6th Amendment?

a)

fair and speedy

b)

Supreme Court

c)

unreasonable

d)

suspicious and long

18.

The 8th Amendment prohibits someone from being charged all of the following EXCEPT....

a)

excessive bail

b)

excessive fines

c)

excessive lawyer charges

d)

excessive punishments

19.

A citizen of the United States cannot be deprived of all EXCEPT.....

a)

life

b)

money

c)

liberty

d)

property

20.

The idea that the individual rights guaranteed by the Federal Government in the Bill of Rights also applies to the State and Local governments is known as.....

a)

institution

b)

inconceivable

c)

inconsistent

d)

incorporation

21.

What Supreme Court Case reinforced the Separate but Equal for African Americans?

a)

Obergefell vs Hodges

b)

Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Kansas

c)

Plessy vs Ferguson

d)

Roe vs Wade

22.

What Supreme Court case desegregated schools in America?

a)

Obergefell vs Hodges

b)

Plessy vs Ferguson

c)

Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Kansas

d)

Roe vs Wade

23.

What Supreme Court case legalized gay marriage?

a)

Plessy vs Ferguson

b)

Obergefell vs Hodges

c)

Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Kansas

d)

Roe vs Wade

24.

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

a)

First

b)

Second

c)

Fourteenth

d)

Nineteenth

25.

What words, from the Declaration of Independence, did all Social Movements use to gain their rights?

a)

"We hold these truths to be self evident"

b)

"Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness"

c)

"Endowed by their creator"

d)

"All Men are Created Equal"