BoR Amendments
3 Branches
Landmark SC Cases
Civil/Voting Rights Amendments
100

The amendment that protects your five freedoms.

What is the 1st Amendment?

100

Congress is another name for this branch.

What is the Legislative Branch?

100

Dred Scott v. Stanford established this.

What is ex-slaves are not citizens?
100

The amendment that allowed African-Americans to vote.

What is the 15th amendment.

200

The Amendment that protects you from having to Quarter soldiers..

What is the 3rd amendment?

200

The collection of executive departments that makes of this advisory committee to the Presidents.

What is the Cabinet

200
Mardbury v. Madison gave the Supreme Court this power.

What is the power of judicial review?

200

This amendment (is supposed to) guarantee equal protection under the law.

What is the 14th Amendmemt?

300

The two amendments that have to deal with court trials.

What are the 6th and 7th amendment?
300
The Supreme Court can check the other two branches by doing this.

What is declaring something unconstitutional?

300

Gideon v. Wainwright was a violation of this amendment.

What is the 5th amendment?

300

Susan B. Anthony (and others) played a big part in passing this amendment.

What is the 19th amendment?

400

This amendment protects from cruel and unusual punishment.

What is the 8th amendment?

400
The executive branch checks the judicial branch by doing this.

What is appoint SC judges?

400

Brown v. Board of Education overturned this case.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

400

This amendment goes hand-in-hand with the Emancipation Proclamation.

What is the 13th amendment.

500

This amendment is very similar to an article of the Constitution (Bonus 100 if you name which article).

What is the 10th amendment (Article IV)?

500

Baron de Montesquieu developed this idea that allows governmental power to be balanced.

What is either C&B or SoP?

500

U.S. v. Nixon was a court case that limited this presidential power (Bonus 300 if you name the scandal Nixon covered up with this "privilege").

What is executive privilege? (the Watergate scandal)

500

18-year-old were angry that they could do this but not vote, and then the 26th amendment was passed.

What is get drafted into the armed forces?