JEOPARDY The Bill of Rights
Categories Amendments Amendments Civil Rights People Court Cases Hodge Podge Vocabulary
Final Jeopardy
What is an indictment? The name for the ruling of the grand jury if they feel someone may have committed a crime.
What is the 6th Amendment ? This guarantees the right to an attorney for the accused in a criminal trial.
What is the 4 th Amendment? This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 6 th Amendment? This amendment guarantees the right to a trial by jury in a criminal case.
What is the 12 th Amendment? All of the following are called Civil War Amendments, except : the 12 th Amendment the 13 th Amendment the 14 th Amendment the 15 th Amendment
This amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment and that bail be reasonable. What is the 8 th Amendment?
Money required to get out of jail until the trial date. What is bail?
A court order allowing police to search a suspect’s home or business and take specific items as evidence. What is a search warrant?
Banning printed or media material because of offensive ideas or images. What is censorship?
Daily Double “Don’t Choke!”
Following established legal procedure is known as this. What is due process?
Printing lies about a person. What is libel?
Social separation of the races. What is segregation?
Paying to vote. What are poll taxes?
Unfair treatment of individuals based on race. What is discrimination?
What is racial profiling? Singling out suspects based on the way they look or because of their race.
Rights of full citizenship and equality under the laws of the U.S. What are civil rights?
The 19 th Amendment gave this group the right to vote. Who are women?
Most important civil rights leader of the 1960s who was killed in Gave the “I have a dream” speech. Who was Martin Luther King?
Daily Double “Don’t Choke!”
The 23 rd Amendment gave people in this area of the U.S. the right to vote in Where was the District of Columbia (D.C.)?
This is the right of the government to take away private property for a fair price. What is eminent domain?
These programs tried to make up for past discrimination by helping minorities get jobs and be promoted in areas that were previously given only to white males. What is Affirmative Action?
This court case ruling gave people accused of a crime the right to a lawyer. What was Gideon vs. Wainwright?
This 1980 court case concerned search and seizure rights for students. What was New Jersey vs. T.L.O.?
This court case ruling in 1925 caused the incorporation of the Bill of Rights across the U.S. What was Getlow vs. New York?
This is the name of the man whose court case caused anyone being arrested to be told their civil rights under to law. For example: “You have the right to remain silent…” Who was Miranda?
This court case changed the way freedom of speech was interpreted. After this, it would include clothing as a form of freedom of speech. What is Tinker vs Des Moines?
In 1869 this was the first U.S. territory to let women vote. What is Wyoming?
If you are tried twice for the same crime it is called _____ ________. What is double jeopardy?
This 1954 landmark court case struck down the separate but equal clause and did away with segregation in all public U.S. schools. What is Brown vs. the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas?
What is slander? Crime involving spoken lies about a person.
What are freedom of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly? These are the 5 freedoms of the 1 st Amendment rights.