Amendments
This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the first amendment?
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
Citizens must do this when called to help decide court cases
What it is Jury Duty?
This document is the supreme law of the United States and serves as the rulebook for our country.
What is the Constitution?
This man became the face of the Civil Rights Movement and was known for speeches and protests.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the fourth amendment?
This branch of government interprets laws and includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This responsibility requires citizens to financially support the government.
What is paying taxes?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This form of protest involved African-Americans going to white only lunch counters and drawing national attention to segregated place in the South.
What are Sit-Ins?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the group of advisers that the President has to help run the Executive Branch.
What is the President's Cabinet?
This right/freedom allows citizens to criticize the government without punishment.
What is Freedom of Speech?
There are this many justices on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
This 1955–1956 protest against segregated buses took place in Alabama.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This principle allows each branch of government to limit or stop the powers of the other branches.
What is checks and balances?
This civic action allows citizens to influence government decisions by selecting leaders.
What is voting?
This is the minimum age to President of the United States?
What is 35?
In 1965, peaceful protesters marching for voting rights were attacked on a bridge in Selma during this event.
What is Bloody Sunday?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This system divides power between national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
This responsibility includes protecting and defending the country if needed.
What is serving in the military?
This is the only person to be President of the United States for more than two terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This law, passed in 1964, outlawed segregation and discrimination based on race and color.
What is the Civil Rights Act?