Government
It is the branch of government occupied by the President and the Vice President.
What is the Executive Branch?
The 18th Amendment, prohibited the production and sale of this.
What is alcohol?
This Amendment grants freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This Supreme Court decision had the misfortune of establishing segregation in the south, under the slogan, separate but equal?.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
These are the 1st Ten Amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
It is the branch of government that makes laws and passes resolutions.
What is the Legislative Branch?
There was the fear that a stranding army could become the tool of tyranny. Because of this, this amendment was added to the Bill of Rights, stating, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This Amendment protects citizens against illegal searches and seizures from police.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Two big disputes were left unanswered by the Constitution for decades. Which has greater sovereignty, the states or the central government? Should slavery be ended? This event ended that dispute.
What is the Civil War?
It is the primary purposes of the United States Constitution.
What is establishing the three branches of government and their respective powers?
It is the government entity that has the power of raising and spending money.
What is Congress?
This Amendment endowed former slaves with the rights of citizenship.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
He was the 1st Supreme Court Justice.
Who was John Jay?
This is the term of a U.S. senator.
What is 6 years?
It is the government entity that settles disputes among people and punishes law breakers.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This was establish with the addition of the 16th Amendment.
What is income tax?
This 1964 law made it illegal to discriminate publicly against people and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC)?
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This Chief Justice of the Supreme Court solidified the Court's role as chief arbiter of legal disputes in the U.S.
Who was John Marshall?
This is considered the unofficial 4th branch of government?
What is the Media (or the Press)?
This is the number of Supreme Court Justices?
What is 9?
This Amendment, on of the "Civil War Amendments" guarantees citizens equal treatment under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This famous Supreme Court case determined that evidence obtained illegally by authorities could not be used in court.
What is Mapp v Ohio?
This president, elected for four consecutive terms in office, inspired the 22nd Amendment, limiting the president to two four-year terms.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
This was a person who believed that states should be granted greater sovereignty than the federal government.
What is an anti-federalist?