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Amendments
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100
Freedoms to think and act without government interference.
What are civil liberties?
100
Strong reasons to think that a person or property was involved in a crime.
What is a probable cause?
100
Had almost no rights.
Who are enslaved people?
100
Bans military practice in their peace time.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
100
Spoken untruths that are harmful to someone's reputation
What is Slander?
200
Written untruths that are harmful to someone's reputation.
What is libel?
200
Guaranteed rights to the accused.
What is the 6th Amendment?
200
Laws created after the civil war that kept African Americans from getting jobs and limited their rights in many other ways.
What are black codes?
200
Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Assembly, and Freedom to Petition the Government.
What is the 1st Amendment?
200
A sum of money required to vote.
What is a poll tax?
300
The right to say our opinions in public or private without being punished.
What is Freedom of Speech?
300
Wanted to protect the American Government from taking actions of abusive power.
Who are the Founders?
300
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
300
Abolish slavery.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
300
The banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas.
What is censorship?
400
Limits placed on something.
What are restrictions?
400
The right of government to take private property for public use.
What is Eminent domain?
400
Lets you vote when you turn 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
400
Let woman vote.
What did the 19th Amendment do?
400
Protects our right to gather in groups for any reason, as long as the groups are peaceful.
What is Freedom of Assembly?
500
A formal request for government action.
What is a petition.
500
Putting someone on trial for a crime which he or she was previously found innocent.
What is double jeopardy?
500
It protected Freedom of Speech.
What is the Due Process Clause?
500
Gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 24th Amendment?
500
A sum of money required of voters before they are permitted to cast a ballot
What is a poll tax?