Test #4 Study Guide
The Bill of Rights and Other Amendments
Part I: You are expected to be able to identify the following terms:
Slander
Censorship
Grand Jury
Double Jeopardy
Civil Liberties
Poll taxes
Petition
Indictment
Due Process of Law
Segregation
Eminent Domain
Libel
Search Warrant
Suffrage
Discrimination
Bail
Part II: You are expected to be able to answer the following questions.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
What are the five freedoms listed in the 1st amendment?
What are the different types of press?
What does it mean to bear arms? What amendment is this freedom protected under?
What are the civil rights/Civil War amendments? (Know what rights these amendments
protect.)
What does NAACP stand for? How does the NAACP work to change legislation?
What did the 19th amendment do?
What was the result of Brown versus the Topeka Board of Education? What court case
overturned this decision?
What are the rights protected by the 5th amendment? Describe each.
Which amendment protects against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment?
Give an example of cruel and unusual punishment?
What is racial profiling?
What are Jim Crow laws? What is another name for these?
Which amendment includes the idea of reserved powers?
What is protected under the 24th amendment?
How does the National Urban League work?
What amendment prevents the government from forcing soldiers to stay in civilians’
homes? Why was this amendment passed?
What amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures? What else
does this amendment protect?
What did the 18th amendment do? Which amendment repealed it?
What is the 17th amendment?
What powers does the 9th amendment protect?
What did the court case Plessy versus Ferguson do?
Why were affirmative action programs designed?
What rights were not protected under the 13th Amendment that urged Congress to pass
the 14th and 15th Amendments?
What are the different parts of speech covered in the 1 st Amendment?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish? Who did it affect?
How did the 24th Amendment help fulfill the promise of the 15th Amendment?
What is the “Establishment Clause” referring to?
When does the protection against double jeopardy not apply?
What did Martin Luther King, Jr. believe in?
According to the 7th Amendment, an individual may request a jury in a civil case involving
more than $
.
Which amendment states that an accused person is entitled to have a lawyer?
What did the 23rd Amendment do?
PART III: HONORS ONLY You must be able to answer AT LEAST ONE of the following
questions.
1. How have historical events and social movements influenced the development of the Bill
of Rights and the amendments that followed? In your essay, discuss at least three
amendments. Be sure to describe each amendment’s purpose and the events or
movements that led to its ratification.
2. Has the Bill of Rights been effective in providing civil rights for all Americans? State your
opinion, and include specific facts to support it.