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This amendment of the Constitution ended slavery in the United States in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
If you don’t vote in person on Election Day, you’ve cast this type of ballot, whether by mail or by early voting.
What is an absentee ballot?
In 1955, this woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Which Supreme Court Case held that abortion is a fundamental right under the US Constitution ?
What is Roe v. Wade (1973)?
Which amednment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th amendment ?
This amendment guarantees that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
How many Electoral College votes are needed to win the presidency.
What is 270 votes?
The assassination of this prominent civil rights leader on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, marked a tragic moment in American history.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Which Supreme Court case states that no one is above the law, not even the president ?
What is US v. Nixon (1974)?
What was the voting age changed from ?
What is 21 to 18?
These rights, which include the right to remain silent and to have an attorney, must be read to you by police if you are taken into custody.
What are the Miranda Rights?
The 3 qualifications to register to vote.
What is a U.S. citizen, Resident of State/Precinct in which you are voting, and 18 years of age or older?
This civil rights organization, founded in 1909, is one of the oldest and most influential groups fighting for the rights of African Americans.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Which Supreme Court case held that school prayer in public school system violates the First amendment ?
What is Engel v. Vitale (1962)?
What is Gerrymandering ?
If you’re stopped by the police, you have this right, which means you don’t have to answer their questions without a lawyer.
What is the right to remain silent?
A U.S. Representative’s re-election bid.
What is every 2 years?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Which case allowed for people to burn the American flag as a symbolic speech, which is protected by the First Amendment.
What is Texas v. Johnson (1989)?
Which amendment allowed for U.S. Senators to be directly voted into office by the voters of the state ?
What is the 17th amendment ?
In 2010, the U.S. passed this act, which aims to protect patients from being denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or 'Obamacare'?
Many state officers can be removed with this type of election; the people who wanted it in the U.S. Constitution lost out.
What is a recall?
This act, which was signed into law in 1965, aimed to eliminate barriers to voting for African Americans, such as literacy tests and poll taxes.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Which Supreme Court case established that any evidence that is obtained through unreasonable searches &n sizers in violation of the 4th amendment, may not be used in state courts for state law criminal prosecutions ?
What is Mapp v. Ohio (1961)?
Which amendment abolished the poll tax of federal elections ?
What is the 24th amendment?