Amendments Knowledge
What Amendment Protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
What act allowed the president to detain or deport citizens of enemy countries during wartime.
What is the Alien Enemies Act?
What means the government must follow fair legal procedures before taking away someone's rights or freedom?
What is Due Process
What Amendment protects due process and legal rights, including protection against self-incrimination and double jeopardy.
What is the 5th Amendment?
What act allowed the president to deport immigrants considered dangerous to the country.
What is the Alien Friends Act?
What means a person cannot be tried or punished twice for the same crime after being acquitted or convicted.
What is Double Jeopardy
What Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law and defines U.S. citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment
What 1790 law limited naturalized U.S. citizenship to “free white persons”?
What is the Naturalization Act
What means encouraging people to oppose, resist, or rebel against the government, especially through speech or writing.
What is Sedition
What Amendment grants protection from unfair searches and property seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
What act made it illegal to publish or say certain false or harmful statements about the government.
What is the Sedation Act?
What is the act of granting citizenship to a foreign-born person after they fulfill the requirements established by law.
What is Naturalization?
What Amendment gives you the right to a fast, public trial with a lawyer.
What is the 6th Amendment?
What year were these acts implemented?
What is 1798
What is a person who supported a stronger national (federal) government and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What is a Federalist