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Bill of Rights
Civil War
Amendments
Vocabulary
Civil Rights
100
The right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
100
The start of the Civil War.
What is 1861?
100
Abolishes slavery in the United States.
What is 13th Amendment?
100
The division of power between the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
100
The best known leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr?
200
Protection against unreasonable searches by law enforcement officers.
What is the 4th Amendment?
200
The end of the Civil War.
What is 1865?
200
States that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
Prohibits state governments from entering into treaties with foreign governments.
What is Limited Government?
200
The location of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is Washington, D.C.?
300
The right to a speedy and public trial by a jury of one's peers in criminal cases.
What is the 6th Amendment?
300
The president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Declares that all persons born in the United States are citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Divides the national government into the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is the Separation of Powers?
300
Refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, violating state and local laws requiring segregation in public transportation; caused the Montegomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
Protection against excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
400
The two controversial sides during the Civil War.
What is the Union and the Confederate States of America?
400
Guarantees women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
System in the Constitution that provides ways for each branch of the national government to check the actions of the other two branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
400
Prohibited racial discrimination in education and employment and outlawed segregation in public facilities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
The guarantee that the people and the states are to keep powers not specifically granted to the federal government.
What is the 10th Amendment?
500
The accomplishments of the Civil War.
What is 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
500
Gurantees the right to vote to citizens 18 years of age or older.
What is the 26th Amendment?
500
Rights that are given to you by the amendments of the Constitution.
What are Individual Rights?
500
Decision that demonstrated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees equal protection of the laws; Court stated that it was unconstitutional for states to have separate schools for white and African American students.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka?