Bill of Rights
This Amendment guarantees you do not have to Quarter soldiers without your permission.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
Abraham Lincoln signed this, which freed the Slaves in the Southern States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Amendment abolished slavery in all 50 States of the Union.
What is the 13th amendment?
Something you should do?
the First Government in America, it was a bit of a rebound.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This Amendment guarantees you cannot be charged for the same crime twice.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This required people to pay a fee to register to vote.
What is a Poll Tax.
This Amendment extended voting rights to women in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is something you are required by law to do.
What is a Duty?
We the people, of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.
What is the Preamble?
This Amendment guarantees no illegal searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This amendment grants equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
This Amendment granted suffrage to African-American males and stopped banning people from voting based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
One of the most sacred obligations you have as an American citizen is to exercise this right.
What is voting?
This Enlightenment Philosopher believed man was born free and equal with "natural rights"
Who is John Locke?
This Amendment has been interpreted to mean you have a right to privacy.
What is the 9th Amendment?
The American Civil War was primarily fought over.
What is slavery?
This Amendment banned the use of a poll tax in all federal elections. In 1966, it was extended to include ALL elections, including State elections.
What is the 24th Amendment?
You must serve on this if you get summoned. It is the law.
What is Jury Duty?
This event was the Death Nail for the Articles of Confederation and showed the government that the Articles were not the solution.
What is Shays Rebellion?
Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
It was a compromise between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Anti-Federalists would not agree to the Constitution unless these protections were added.
This Amendment grants Citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
What is the 14th amendment again?
This Amendment came about during the Vietnam War and allowed all 18-year-old citizens to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Al Capone and Chris Brown failed to fulfill their Civic Duty by failing to pay.
What are Taxes?
The government can take your property as long as they pay you a fair price and use it for a public good.
What is Eminent Domain?