Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights
What is the first 10 amendments?
Gave citizenship to all people born in the US
What is the 14th amendment?
Number of freedoms guaranteed in the 1st amendment
What is 5?
The number of amendments in the US constitution
What is 27?
A fee required to cast a vote outlawed by the 24th amendment
What is a poll tax?
Protects one from illegal search and seizure
What is the 4th amendment?
Marks the beginning of the Prohibition era in American History
What is the 18th amendment?
This amendment reversed the British "Quartering Act"
Achieved by passing the 13th amendment
What is freedom for enslaved people?
The right to vote
What is suffrage
Freedoms guaranteed in the 1st amendment
What is speech, religion, press, assembly and petition?
Right to vote will not be denied on account of race
What is the 15th amendment?
This 1919 amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
Gave electoral votes to citizens in Washington D.C.
What is the 23rd amendment?
The electoral system that requires a presidential candidate to get 270 votes to win
What is the electoral college?
Right guaranteed in the 6th amendment
Established in the 25th Amendment
What is the presidential line of succession?
When congressional pay increases take effect
What is after the following election?
The only amendment to repeal another amendment
What is the 21st amendment?
The act of forbidding something by law
What is prohibition?
"I plead the _____!" Meaning one does not need to testify against themselves
What is the fifth?
The 3 amendments passed during the conclusion of the Civil War
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
Limited the number of presidential terms to 2
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Amendment that established a direct election of senators
What is the 17th amendment?
Inauguration day
What is Jan. 20?