WorksheetsCivil Rights/Civil Liberties
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution are called....
The Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Magna Carta
Protections of citizens from unwarranted government actions is called....
Civil Abuses
Civil Rights
Civil Liberties
Civil Service
The government's responsibility to protect all groups and their rights is called....
Civil Rights
Civil Liberties
Civil Service
Civil Declarations
Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Speech are guaranteed in the .....
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Letters that inspired Freedom of Press, which criticized the British government before the American Revolution were known as....
Snowden Letters
Federalist Letters
Ellsberg Letters
Cato's Letters
This person leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times exposing the American involvement in Vietnam.....
Cato
Edward Snowden
Daniel Ellsberg
Alexander Hamilton
This ex CIA agent leaked classified documents about U.S. national security....
Cato
Daniel Ellsberg
Alexander Hamilton
Edward Snowden
The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to escape....
suppression of speech
religious persecution
poverty
disease
The first colony established by Roger Williams that granted religious freedom to all citizens was....
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Georgia
The main reason that the United States had Freedom of Speech is so that its citizens can criticize....
each other
their neighbors
their families
the government
All of the following are symbolic speech EXCEPT....
wearing armbands
creating podcasts
carrying signs
burning American flags
The only speech not guaranteed in the First Amendment is....
hate speech
anti government protests
fighting words
loud speech
The main purpose that the framers of the Constitution include the right to bear arms is to provide....
self defense
money for gun sellers
a humane way of killing others
recreational fun
What is the only organization that can bring criminal charges against a citizen?
the government
the framers
PETA
schools
Under Due Process Laws,what is the name given to a formal charge of a crime based on evidence?
arrest
subpoena
indictment
sentence
When you don't have to testify against yourself in a criminal trial, it is known as.....
pleading the First
pleading the Second
pleading the Fifth
lying
What kind of trial are you guaranteed in the 6th Amendment?
fair and speedy
Supreme Court
unreasonable
suspicious and long
The 8th Amendment prohibits someone from being charged all of the following EXCEPT....
excessive bail
excessive fines
excessive lawyer charges
excessive punishments
A citizen of the United States cannot be deprived of all EXCEPT.....
life
money
liberty
property
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.....
institution
inconceivable
inconsistent
incorporation
What Supreme Court Case reinforced the Separate but Equal for African Americans?
Obergefell vs Hodges
Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Kansas
Plessy vs Ferguson
Roe vs Wade
What Supreme Court case desegregated schools in America?
Obergefell vs Hodges
Plessy vs Ferguson
Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Kansas
Roe vs Wade
What Supreme Court case legalized gay marriage?
Plessy vs Ferguson
Obergefell vs Hodges
Brown vs Board of Education Topeka Kansas
Roe vs Wade
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
First
Second
Fourteenth
Nineteenth
What words, from the Declaration of Independence, did all Social Movements use to gain their rights?
"We hold these truths to be self evident"
"Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness"
"Endowed by their creator"
"All Men are Created Equal"
