Founding Era Amendments
This Amendment ensures the right to freedom of speech.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This class of person was allowed to vote after the 19th amendment.
Who are women?
The 22nd Amendment limit on the Presidency.
What are two terms?
Describes the powers and responsibilities of the courts and judges, the Judicial Branch.
What is Article III?
Soldiers are not allowed to do this without permission from a homeowner.
What is stay (quarter) in a civilian home?
This amendment allows for involuntary service if you are convicted of a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The 16th Amendment gave Congress this new taxing power.
What is the income tax?
The 26th Amendment set a new, lower voting age.
What is 18 years old?
Describes the powers of the Executive Branch, the enforcers of laws.
What is Article II?
In addition to individual rights to bear arms, the 2nd Amendment grants a unique power to states.
What is the power to create a well-regulated militia?
Because of the 15th Amendment, this class of person was allowed to vote.
Who are black men?
The 17th Amendment gave a new power to people to directly elect them.
Who are US Senators?
This amendment abolished the poll tax.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Describes the powers of the law-making branch, the legislature.
What is Article I?
This is the value required for a civil case?
What is $20?
This amendment ensures that all people born in the U.S. are citizens of the United States?
What is the 14th Amendment?
The 18th Amendment banned the sale of this popular item.
What are alcoholic beverages?
The 23rd Amendment gave residents of DC a new right, although it was not the right to have voting Representatives or Senators.
What is the right to vote in the Presidential election?
All men are created equal with fixed rights, and the government's role is to protect those individual rights.
What is the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence?
These are the recipients of powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.
Who are the states and the people?
Life, liberty, and property.
What natural rights can be taken with the due process of law?
The Anti-Saloon League campaigned and protested heavily at the state and national levels for the passage of this amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
When is 1933 to 1992?
States the goals of the people's government.
What is the Preamble to the Constitution?