What is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
100
The number of total amendments to the Constitution.
What is 27?
100
Separation of blacks and whites.
What is segregation?
100
Equal protection does not mean that everyone must be treated in exactly the same way, but only that people must be treated _______________.
What is fairly?
100
The Law of the Land.
What is the Constitution?
200
One of the main freedoms listed in the first amendment.
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, right to petition, or right to assemble peacefully?
200
The definition of amendment.
What is a change to the Constitution?
200
Highest court in the land.
What is The Supreme Court?
200
Denying a loan to a person because of his or her race is, of course, and example of ____________________.
What is discrimination?
200
Introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
300
The right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
300
19th Amendment
What is voting rights for women?
300
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
300
The decision in this case overturned the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson and made all segregation laws unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka?
300
How the Constitution begins.
What is "We the people of the United States"?
400
Freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
400
The 13th amendment.
What is abolition of slavery?
400
Steps to counteract the effects of past racial discrimination and discrimination against women.
What is affirmative action?
400
A fee for voting.
What is a poll tax?
400
The year the Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
500
Who has the powers that the Constitution does not mention? The 10th amendment declares that those powers belong to the _____________ governments or to the people.
What is state?
500
The 15th amendment.
What is voting rights for black men?
500
NAACP
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
500
Judging from past history, amendments may be required from time to time, but the Constitution's sturdy __________________ of principles will most likely remain intact.
What is framework?
500
Said, "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.....It will become all one thing, or all the other."