Amendments
The United States Constitution has 27 ratified amendments. This is the name of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The 26th Amendment determined the legal age to vote as 18 years old. This was the previous age to vote before this Amendment was ratified in 1971.
What is 21 years old?
This party believes in the ability for the government to intervene by regulation of corporations, protecting worker's rights, and supporting labor unions.
What is the Democratic Party?
This ideology prioritizes extreme nationalism, prioritizing a homogenous national identity, and heavy state control over social and economic norms.
What is fascism?
This civil rights organization, that was founded at Shaw University by Ella Baker, was student led and in collaboration with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacturing, transportation, and selling of this substance. The 21st Amendment later repealed the restriction of this substance.
What is alcohol?
This is the year that Lyndon B Johnson furthered enforced the 15th Amendment with the Voting Rights Act.
What is 1965?
This party believes in higher tax rates for high-income earners and large corporations to pay for public services and social programs.
What is Libertarianism?
This civil rights leader championed Black voter registration and economic justice in Mississippi. She also co-founded the National Women's political Caucus.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This Amendment seems to be under fire with the restriction of news media outlets' access to the White House and the threat to cancel shows that address the current government satirically.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This was the first election year in U.S. history where Black voter turnout exceeded White voter turnout.
What is 2012?
This party opposes strict gun-control legislation.
What is the Republican Party?
This ideology comes from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and proposes a society without social classes, poverty, or coercive state government.
What is Communism?
An escaped slave who advocated for abolition, Black citizenship and universal right to vote.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The 13th Amendment ended this brutal practice, except as a punishment for a crime.
What is slavery?
This was a voter suppression tactic, often used against poor and minority communities in the South to bypass the 15th Amendment.
What are Voting Literacy Tests?
This party promotes public expression of religious values and traditional family structures.
What is the Republican Party?
This ideology promotes public policy focused on renewable energy, reduction of pollution, and conservation efforts.
What is Environmentalism?
Cliff Albright, April England-Albright, and Latosha brown are co-founders of this modern organization dedicated to educating and registering Black voters.
What is Black Voters Matter?
Although George Washington warned against allowing a president holding more than two terms in office, this was not made official until this Amendment in 1951.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The Women's Suffrage Movement began at this convention in 1848.
What is the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
This political party supports the abolition of capitalism and dramatic reduction of military and imperialist foreign policy.
What is the Socialist Party?
This ideology is often believed to be rooted in chaos as it completely rejects state authority, centralized government, and social hierarchies.
What is anarchism?
Records indicate that this man was the first Black voter after the ratification of the 15th Amendment that prohibits voter discrimination due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Who is Thomas Mundy Peterson?