bill of rights
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This movement aimed to fix problems caused by industrialization and urbanization.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This document is the supreme law of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S
What is the 14th Amendment?
She was a famous muckraker who exposed unfair business practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This amendment says you cannot be forced to house soldiers in your home.
What is the Third Amendment?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This amendment allowed the federal government to collect income taxes
What is the 16th Amendment?
This 1965 law banned literacy tests and protected minority voting rights.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This process allows Congress to remove a president or federal judge from office.
What is impeachment?
This amendment guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This federal agency helped formerly enslaved people with food, schools, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These fees were used to prevent poor people, especially African Americans, from voting.
What are poll taxes?
This system divides power between national and state governments
What is federalism?
This amendment protects rights not specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
These laws in the South restricted the freedom of newly freed African Americans.
What were Black Codes?
This law required truthful labels on food and medicine.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This Supreme Court case ruled that “one person, one vote” must be followed in legislative districts.
What is Reynolds v. Sims?
This principle allows the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?