Amendments
R.A.P.P.S.- freedom of religion, assembly, press, petition and speech.
What is the 1st Amendment.
Rights that cannot be taken away.
What are unalienable rights?
Declaration of Independence
What is 1776?
Women's Suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
Established the US as a world power.
What is the Spanish American War?
Abolished slavery in the US
What is the 13th Amendment
System of government in which power is divided between the central government and the states.
What is federalism?
What is 1957?
Repealed Prohibition
What is the 21st Amendment?
What is World War II?
Made the production, distribution and consumption of alcohol illegal
What is the 18th Amendment?
The power of voting.
What is republicanism?
The years World War I took place.
What is 1914-1918?
Gave right of citizenship to all persons born in the US.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked this war.
What is World War I?
Established the voting age at 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Power to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Spanish American War and the annexation of Hawaii took place during this year.
What is 1898?
Limited the president to 2 terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
1950- US went to this country in order to stop the spread of communism.
What is Korea?
Gave Congress the power to levy income taxes.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This constitutional system divides authority among three branches, allowing each to limit the actions of the others to prevent tyranny.
What is checks and balances?
Stock Market crash
What is 1929?
Allowed for the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Tension between Democratic US and Communist Soviet Union
What is the Cold War?