Bill of Rights
What is the fourth Amendment?
Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Homestead Act?
It was passed to encourage settlement of the Great Plains. Settlers were offered 160 acres of free land; to keep the land, settlers had to construct a dwelling, cultivate crops, and live on it for five years.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
It granted women the right to vote.
What is Separation of Powers?
Divides power between the three branches of government.
What famous Speech did Martin Luther King Jr give? What was his speech about?
The “I Have a Dream” speech. It shared his hopes of a future where people would be judged by their character, not by the color of their skin.
What is the sixth Amendment?
Right to trial by jury in criminal cases.
What is Child Labor Act?
Limited the use of child labor.
What is the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
It lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What are Unalienable Rights?
It is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What was Sandra Day O’Connor the first to do?
Became the first female to serve on the Supreme Court.
What is the first Amendment?
Right to freely exercise freedoms of religion, assembly, the press, petition, and speech.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Authorized the U.S. government to draft men between the ages of 21 and 30 into the U.S. military.
What is the Twenty-First Amendment?
It repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and brought an end to Prohibition.
What is Referendum?
A measure that allowed voters to approve or reject the new law.
What scandal was President Nixon involved in and what were the results of his involvement?
The Watergate scandal. It led to pending impeachment charges, his resignation as president, and the public’s loss of trust in the federal government and its leaders.
What is the fifth Amendment?
Right to due process and eminent domain.
What is the War of Powers Act?
A resolution that limited the president’s ability to use armed forces without congressional approval and helped rebalance power between the legislative and executive branches.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
The production, sale, and transportation of alcohol was banned.
What is Checks and Balances?
It allows each branch to have power over the other two branches.
What important stand did Rosa Parks take? What were the results of her stand?
She refused to give up her seat in the “whites-only” section of a city bus, which resulted in her arrest. A boycott was held against the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted over a year. The protest ended when the Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional.
What is the tenth Amendment?
Rights not given to the federal government are given to the states or the people; this principle is known as federalism.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
It was passed to protect the extinction of certain animals and plants.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
All people born here are citizens and will have equal protection under the law.
What is Cultural Diffusion?
The spread of ideas, customs, or products from one
group to another?
What were the results of President Clinton Lying under oath?
He was impeached, but not removed from office.