Name That Amendment!
Name all 5 parts of the First Amendment
What is Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Petition, and Assembly?
By definition, an "amendment" is this...
What is a "change" or "edit" to the Constitution?
Parks, schools, roads, bridges, and transportation (like subways and buses), etc. are all examples of this Purpose of Government
What is Providing Public Services?
The year AND main author of the Declaration of Independence
What is 1776 and who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This amendment OUTLAWED alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
The Constitution is broken down into this many Articles
What is 7 Articles?
This Purpose of Government discusses keeping citizens safe from OUTSIDE threats
What is Providing Defense?
This document outlines and lays out the structure of the US Government
What is the US Constitution?
This Amendment REPEALED the 18th Amendment (and made alcohol legal again)
What is the 21st Amendment?
These are known as the "Black" or "Reconstruction" Amendment
What is 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
What is "ratify" it?
Deciding legislation like tax percentages, or how much money to print and have in circulation, reflects back to this Purpose of Government
What is Making Economic Decisions?
This is America's first operational government, but it FAILED after almost 10 years.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Amendment was for women's suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Amendment outlawed Poll Tax, or making people take literacy tests or prove their right to vote
What is the 24th Amendment?
What are 2/3s and 3/4s?
This means to have "complete control and authority within one's region"
What is "Sovereignty"?
This is the event that proved the Articles of Confederation were too weak
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Amendments 4-8 have to do with this
What is police and the courts?
This Amendment talks about the line of succession and who will be president if the elected president is unable to serve
These essays defended the Constitution to the American public
What are the Federalist Papers?
The idea or effort to influence government and make it do what you want is called this
What is "Politics"?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! FOR 1000 POINTS
Recite the ENTIRE Preamble of the Constitution
What is "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"?
This Amendment discusses how the people are now directly in charge of electing Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?