Chapter 4 Worksheet
Section 1
1. How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
2. What are the five freedoms of the first amendment?
3. What are the two ways that the first amendment safeguards religion?
4. What do we call the freedom to think and act without government interference?
5. What is censorship?
6. What is the difference between slander and libel?
7. What restrictions can be placed on freedom of the press?
8. What word means formal request?
Section 2
9. What amendment allows a person to have a lawyer at trial?
10. What amendment allows citizens to keep and bear arms?
11. What amendment protects a person from self-incrimination?
12. What amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure?
13. What amendment sets up reserved powers?
14. What is an order that allows law enforcement to search a home or business? Who
issues these?
15. What is bail?
16. What is eminent domain?
17. Who issues indictments?
Section 3
18. What amendment granted suffrage to women?
19. What amendment has been used by the courts to incorporate the bill of rights to the
states?
20. What change was brought by the seventeenth amendment?
21. What is a poll tax and what amendment outlawed them?
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What level of government was the bill of rights originally intended?
What term means right to vote?
What was accomplished by the thirteenth amendment?
What was accomplished by the twenty-sixth amendment?
Section 4
26. How did African-Americans respond to the arrest of Rosa Parks?
27. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?
28. What do we call unfair treatment based on prejudice?
29. What is segregation? What court case made segregation in public schools
unconstitutional?
30. What programs encourage the hiring of minorities and women in fields traditionally
closed to them?