Amendments
Vocabulary
Supreme Cases
House of Representatives
Senate
100
The first ten amendments.
What is Bill of Rights
100
The political party to which more than half of the members belong.
What is majority party.
100
Stopped segregation in schools
What is Brown v. School Board
100
Representation based on.
What is population.
100
Representation based on.
What is Fair representation.
200
Sets voting age to 18.
What is The Sixteenth Amendment.
200
People represented.
What is constituents.
200
Allowed the Judicial Branch to have power to equal the branches.
What is Maybury v. Madison
200
Members of the House
What is 435
200
Members of the senate
What is 100
300
Abolishes slavery
What is The Thirteenth Amendment
300
An oddly shaped district designed to increase the voting strength of a particular group.
What is a gerrymander.
300
Established the first amendment does not require schools to promote all forms of student speech.
What is Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
300
The requirements to be in the House.
What is be 25, have been a citizen for 7 years, and be a legal citizen of the state you represent.
300
The requirements to be in the Senate.
What is Be at least 30, be a citizen for 9 years, and be a legal citizen of the state you represent.
400
Gives women the right to vote.
What is The Nineteenth Amendment.
400
Congress's duties and responsibilities besides making laws.
What is nonlegislative powers.
400
Established the extent of public schools rights. Allowed Students to wear armband protesting the Vietnam War.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines
400
Population/ Voting
What is How members are chosen
400
Voting
What is How members are chosen.
500
Gives Washington D.C. citizens the right to vote.
What is The Twenty-Third Amendment
500
Court order that requires police to bring a accused criminal to court and explain why they are being tried.
What is writ of habeas corpus.
500
Upholds state laws requiring segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500
Length of terms.
What is 2 years
500
Length of terms
What is six years
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