Bill of Rights | Voting | Presidential | Progressive | Reconstruction/Unique |
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What is the Fourth Amendment?
A warrant is required
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What is the right to vote?
The meaning of the word "suffrage"
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What is the Twenty-Third Amendment?
DC = 3 electoral votes
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What is income tax?
The Sixteenth Amendment was created to implement this type of tax
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What is the Reconstruction Era?
After the Civil War, this was the era where the United States worked on re-uniting itself
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What is eminent domain?
Property is compensated if it is taken for a new use by the government
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What are poll taxes?
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment was created to eliminate this from barring people from voting
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What is the Twentieth Amendment?
President = Jan 20th
Congress = Jan 3rd |
Who are the people?
Originally Senators were chosen by state legislatures, but now with the Seventeenth Amendment, they are now chosen by...
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What is the Eleventh Amendment?
States needed sovereign immunity from being sued
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What is the Eighth Amendment?
A man has stolen a purse containing $3 and must compensate by paying $1.5 million dollars, but luckily this amendment prevents such a fine
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What is the Women's Right Movement?
This movement resulted in the Nineteenth Amendment
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What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
This Amendment was created due to how long President FDR was in office
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What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
The only amendment to be repealed
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What is the Twenty-First Amendment?
This amendment allows the making, selling, and transportation of alcohol
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What is the Tenth Amendment?
Federalism preserved
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What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
"Old enough to die/fight, old enough to vote"
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What is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?
This Amendment was created after the assassination of JFK, resulting in Lyndon B. Johnson becoming president
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What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
The voting population practically doubled due to this amendment
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What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Equal protections for all citizens
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What is cannot induce panic?
"FIRE" is shouted in a normal theater without a disaster going on and could not be protected by the First Amendment due to this limit
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What is race, color, and previous servitude?
Citizens shall not be denied the right to vote on account of....
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What is the Twelfth Amendment?
The election of 1796 and 1800 created standstills in who would become President. Luckily, this amendment fixed the problem
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What is the middle/working class?
The Progressive Era was mostly fueled by this class of people
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What is an election of the House of Representatives?
Changes to Congress' compensation will only occur after this has happened
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