Civil Rights Movements
What is affirmative action?
This document contains the first 10 amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Group of people that opposed the ratification of the Constitution and disagreed with Federalist ideas.
The system that is used to ensure that no branch is more powerful than the other.
What are checks and balances?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, declared the thirteen American colonies free from British rule.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A movement about letting women in the United States have the right to vote. In order to obtain these rights, women protested, wrote, lectured, and lobbied Congress.
What was the women's suffrage movement?
There are this many amendments present in the Constitution.
What is 27?
The document that the Federalists wanted to be ratified.
What is The Constitution?
Branch ran by the President, his or her advisors and various departments and agencies. This branch is responsible for enforcing the laws of the land.
What is the Executive Branch?
Signed in 1787, this document established the framework for the government of the United States and replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution?
Activist during the Civil Rights Movement. Believed in a non-violent form of protest and held many notable speeches.
Amendment that protects Americans' freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion.
What is the 1st Amendment?
A collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
What are the Federalist Papers?
A power exclusive to the Judicial Branch that lets them supervise the Executive Branch.
What is Congressional Oversight?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution, which were adopted in 1791, protect individual liberties and rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A case where the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right. However, the government retained the power to regulate or restrict abortion access depending on the stage of pregnancy.
What is Roe V. Wade?
This is the type of government that the Anti-Federalists wished to be most powerful in the country.
What are state governments?
The House of Representatives has this many voting members, determined by the population of each state.
What is 435?
Ratified in 1868, this amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and provided equal protection under the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The document was written by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to declare all slaves free after the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the 18th Amendment?
James Madison believed that this would be able to prevent the spread of factions.
What is strong government?
The process by which the Supreme Court can declare laws or executive actions unconstitutional is known as this.
What is Judicial Review?
This legislation was signed into law on August 6th, 1965, and Congress amended the Act five times in order to increase its power. With this act in power, literacy tests and other devices were outlawed.
What was the Votings Right Legislation of 1965?