Beyond the Bill of Rights
This constitutional amendment passed in 1865 abolished slavery
This is the part of the criminal trial process where the defendant is charged with a crime.
What is an indictment?
These current political parties are at the forefront of the US two party system.
Who are democrats and republicans?
This supreme court case overturned the "separate, but equal" precedent.
What is Brown vs Board?
Latin for bread, this fictional setting of the Hunger Games geographically makes up most of North America
What is Panem?
This constitutional amendment with a number over the legal drinking age set the voting age to 18
What is the 26th amendment?
This legal protection, latin for "you have the body," means that you cannot be arrested or held without being informed what for
What is a writ of habeas corpus?
Not to be confused with someone who hangs out in hotel check in area, these people represent interest groups and meet with politicians
What is a lobbyist/what is lobbying?
This act passed in 1887 gave Native Americans land allotments after breaking up tribal land in an attempt to force Native Americans to assimilate.
What is the Dawes Act
This year saw a lot of exciting new things, like the reelection of Bill Clinton and the release big name films like Braveheart, independance Day, Mission: Impossible and Space Jam
When is 1996?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are also called this; named for the period in which they were passed and ratified
What are the reconstruction amendments/what is reconstruction?
This kind of bill, only a bill, can leave you rotting in a jail on capital hill without a trial. Thankfully this is illegal in the united States
What is a bill of attainder?
In this kind of election, people will elect candidates for their party to run in the general election, but only registered party members can vote in it.
What is a closed primary?
This term is defined as "the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others." This was commonplace in the United States because of precedents like Plessy vs Fergusson
What is segregation?
This up and coming actress is moving quick towards the title of modern day Scream queen. Ironic considering her Disney Channel origins.
This constitutional amendment established that the right to vote could not be denied based on race or ethnicity, but not gender.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This term meaning a local law should not be confused with other famous examples, such as Lady Liberty and The Thinker
What is a statue?
This type of propaganda wants you to remember that politicians are just like us, they put pants on one leg at a time and eat hot dogs and ice cream. A bad example might be telling people to "Pokemon Go to the polls"
What is plain folks?
This document took heavy inspiration from the Declaration of Independence and was a milestone in the struggle for women's suffrage.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This pop icon from the early 2000s was on The Mickey Mouse Club before becoming major heartbreaker. He might cry you a river, but its only because he Can't Stop the Feeling.
Who is Justin Timberlake?
This constitutional amendment passed in 1920 was the culmination of the suffrage movement
What is the 19th Amendment?
The first thing that must be filed to get the ball rolling on a civil suit, also something you may wish to issue with someone you are upset with. I file mine in a garbage can
What is a complaint
This term describes the growing trend in which voters do not care about politics or people who feel like their vote does not matter.
What is voter apathy?
This supreme court case upheld Executive Order 9066, that internment of Japanese citizens in the United States was constitutional.
What is Korematsu v. United States
In the opening of the film Kung Fu Panda, we see Jack Black's character Po working at a restaurant that primarily sells this. Pull up a bowl and enjoy the lack of secret ingredient
What are noodles?