The Constitution and its Amendments
This amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
This president was first elected in 2008
Who is Barack Obama?
Who is Maura Healey?
This amendment to the Constitution provided voting rights to all women
What is the 19th Amendment?
Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
What are ▪ War of 1812 ▪ Mexican-American War ▪ Civil War ▪ Spanish-American War?
This is the minimum age for a president according to the Constitution
What is 35?
This was the only president to never live in the White House
Who was George Washington?
This is the most common nickname of Massachusetts
What is the Bay State?
The ratification of the 15th Amendment had this impact:
What is suffrage for African American men?
The Constitution was written in this year
What is 1787?
Name the first five freedoms guaranteed by the first amendment
What are the Freedoms of speech ○ Freedom of religion ○ Freedom of press ○ right to peaceably assemble ○ right to petition the government?
He was the fifth US president
Who was James Monroe?
These two people are the current senators who represent Massachusetts in Congress
Who are Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren?
Before 1971, this was the minimum age requirement to vote in an election
What is 21?
the United States bought this territory from France in 1803
What is Louisiana? (The Louisiana Purchase)
This was the 4th amendment to the Constitution
What is the protection from unreasonable search and seizure?
This is the only president to have resigned from office
Who was Richard Nixon?
Massachusetts is technically not a state, instead, it is this, as written in its constitution
What is a commonwealth?
This act, passed in 1965, forbids states from imposing discriminatory restrictions on who can vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This man was president during World War 2
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This was the first person to sign the Constitution
Who was George Washington?
There have been this many father-son presidential duos (bonus points for their names)
What is 2? (John Adams and John Quincy Adams, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush)
This man drafted the Massachusetts Constitution
Who was John Adams?
What is be white male landowners over the age of 21?
The first permanent English settlement, Jamestown, was founded in this year
What is 1607?