Constitution
Who is the considered the "father" of the constitution?
Who is James Madison?
What President pushed to pass the Voting Rights Act in 1965?
Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?
This word is also known as a get-together. A Constitutional _________ or a Women's Rights __________.
What is convention?
What does the first amendment give Americans?
What is Freedom of Speech (OR) What is Freedom of Press?
A famous man who "had a dream" shook hands with a president in 1965. Who was that man?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
What is the Revolutionary War?
Who are the Mexican Americans and Asian Americans?
The British word for "government".
What is parliament?
What is the 19th Amendment?
Someone said, "If a man is old enough to fight, he's old enough to vote". This quote helped lower the voting age from 21 to 18. What president said this quote?
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
What are the first 10 amendment in the Constitution also called?
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Voting Rights Act needed to be passed because southern states were going around a previous amendment. What was that amendment?
What is the 15th amendment?
Another word in politics that means "representatives"?
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment.
Which President was the first to support the idea of giving women the right to vote?`
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
Alexander Hamilton and John Jay printed articles for readers to convince them to accept the new Constitution. What were those articles called?
What is Federalist Papers?
What is 100 times?
Frederick Douglass was an ________. It means to wanting to end or change a system of laws.
What is abolitionist?
A man who was fighting for African American rights appeared at the Women's Rights Convention. Who was that man?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Madison looked at 3 democratic republics to model the Constitution after. Name one of those places?
What is Rome, Greece, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
The Voting Rights Act was needed because of two things Southern States did to disenfranchise voters. What two things did Southern States do?
What are poll taxes and unfair tests?
Synonym: discouraged.
Sentence: Unfair tests __________ black voters from going to the polls.
What is disenfranchised?
Correctly list at least 3 of the years the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 20th amendment were established.