The Founding Era
What does the First Amendment protect?
Your freedom of speech, religion, freedom of the press, the right to petition the government, and assemble peacefully
The Fifth Amendment addresses what rights?
Legal
This amendment abolished slavery.
The Thirteenth
This amendment prohibited the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
The Eighteenth
This Amendment is about the voting rights of all American citizens over 18
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment
What does the Second Amendment protect?
Ensures citizens and the nation the right to security. The right to bare arms.
The Sixth Amendment gives an accused person several important rights. What are they?
The right to a speedy, public trail by an impartial jury
The Fourteenth Amendment deals with what?
Citizenship. It states that all those born or naturalized within the United States are citizens of the United States.
This amendment repeals the Eighteenth Amendment
The Twenty-First Amendment
This Amendment deals with the salary of Congress
The Twenty-Seventh Amendment
This amendment was created in response to the Quartering Act. What amendment is it?
The Third Amendment. Prohibits the government from forcing people to provide shelter for soldiers in their homes.
The Seventh Amendment provides for the right to what?
A jury trial in federal courts to settle disputes about property worth more than $20
This amendment laws out the law that allowed Congress to start collecting income tax, with the promise that this would not be based on the state’s population
The Sixteenth Amendment
What does the Twenty-Fourth Amendment state?
That it is the right of any citizen of the United States to vote for candidates in any election for Presidential, Senate, or Congress representatives, even if they have missed a tax payment.
What amendment states that the VP takes over for the President in the event the president is removed from office, resigns, or dies.
The Twenty-Fifth
The Fourth Amendment protects your right to what?
Privacy
This Amendment states that all other rights not spelled out in the Constitution are "retained by the people"
The Ninth Amendment. It prevents government from claiming that the only rights people have are listed in the Bill of rights.
What does the Fifteenth Amendment state?
That any citizen of the United States has the right to vote, regardless of their race and color of their skin. This constitutional amendment also mentions those with a “previous condition of servitude,”
What amendment makes sure that D.C. has electors in the Electoral College?
The Twenty-Third
This amendment gives the due date for the end of the president and vice president's term.
The Twentieth Amendment. The decision that all presidential terms, and those of vice presidents, will end at noon on January 20th.
How does the Fourth Amendment protect your right to privacy?
Limits the government's power to conduct searches and seizures by protecting the right to privacy; it states that authorities must have a specific reason for a search or to seize evidence or people.
What amendment says that powers not given to the federal government were retained by the states or the people?
The Tenth Amendment
What amendment lays out the requirements for becoming president?
The Twelfth
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
This amendment limits the presidents terms in office.
The Twenty-Second. States that no president should be eligible for election into office for more than two terms. Furthermore, anyone promoted to president for two years or more of a term cannot be elected for more than one additional term