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Constitution

Unit 4

TermDefinition
Assembly The right to meet with others to discuss your beliefs, ideas, or feelings.
Boycott An act of protest, such as when people get together as a group and refuse to buy from or deal with a store or company.
Delegate To entrust someone to represent your interests.
Federal Government Another name for our national government.
Supremacy Clause The clause in the U.S. Constitution explains that states cannot make laws that conflict with the U.S. Constitution or the laws made by Congress.
Petition A formal, written request.
Speech The right to talk about your beliefs, ideas, or feelings.
Establishment Clause The part of the First Amendment that says the government cannot set up an official religion.
Freedom of Belief The government may not force you to believe in something if you do not wish to do so.
Civil War Amendments The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution passed after the Civil War. These amendments were intended to give former slaves the rights of citizens.
Equal Protection of the Laws Treating all individuals or groups of people equally under the law, unless there is a good and fair reason for not doing so.
Voting Rights Act The act passed in 1965 that further protected the right to vote for all U.S. citizens. It forced the states to obey the Constitution. It made it clear that the right to vote could not be denied because of a person's color or race.
Literacy Tests Tests given to people to prove they are able to read or write. These tests were used in the South to keep African Americans from voting.
Poll Tax A tax that voters in many states had to pay before they could vote.
Twenty-Fourth Amendment It states that the right to vote in a national election shall not be denied because a person fails to pay a poll tax or any other tax.
Twenty-Sixth Amendment It gave citizens eighteen years of age or older the right to vote in all elections.
Defamation Purposely saying or writing false information about a person or group in a way that seriously injures their reputation.
Expression To make known your thoughts and feelings.
Press Newspapers, magazines, and other news media. Also, the reporters and people who produce them.
Discrimination Unfair treatment of people because of such things as their race, religion, or gender.
Free Exercise Clause The part of the First Amendment that says the government shall not stop you from holding any beliefs you choose. The government may not unfairly or unreasonably limit your right to practice any religious beliefs you wish.
Tolerant To be willing to let other people be different from yourself in such areas as religion, lifestyle, and political opinion.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 This law ended segregation in public places, including restaurants, movie theaters, and hotels. The law also said that employers could not unfairly discriminate against people because of their race, national origin, religion, or gender.
Equal Protection Clause The part of the Fourteenth Amendment that has been used to prevent states from being unfair to citizens because of their race, or gender. It prohibits laws that are unreasonably and unfairly favor some groups over others.
Segregation To separate people in schools and other public places according to such things as their race.
Civil Rights Movement In the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, people organized to demand that the federal government protect the rights of African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws.
Nineteenth Amendment Added to the constitution in 1920, it gave women the right to vote.
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