Amendments 11-27

Question 0

Twelfth Amendment

Answer 0

Members of the electoral college cast separate votes for the president and Vice President.

Question 1

Eleventh Amendment

Answer 1

Citizens cannot sue state in federal court.

Question 2

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 2

Abolished slavery

Question 3

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 3

Requires that states give all people equal protection; gave citizenship to freed slaves

Question 4

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 4

Voting rights cannot be denied to any citizen bad on race, color, or former status as a slave.

Question 5

Sixteenth Amendment

Answer 5

Authorized the congress to tax

Question 6

Seventeenth Amendment

Answer 6

Establishes direct election of senators

Question 7

Eighteenth Amendment

Answer 7

Prohibited the manufacturing, importing, and exporting of alcohol

Question 8

Nineteenth Amendment

Answer 8

Prohibits the federal government and states from forbidding and citizen the right to vote based on gender

Question 9

Twentieth Amendment

Answer 9

Changes the details of congressional and presidential terms and presidential succession.

Question 10

Twenty-First Amendment

Answer 10

Repeals the 18th amendment

Question 11

Twenty-Second Amendment

Answer 11

Limits the president to 8 years (two terms)

Question 12

Twenty-Third Amendment

Answer 12

Grants Washington, D.C. The right to vote for the electoral college

Question 13

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Answer 13

Prohibits the requirement of a payment (poll tax) as a qualification for voting

Question 14

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Answer 14

Provides for replacement of the Vice President

Question 15

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Answer 15

Lowered the national voting age to 18

Question 16

Twenty-Seventh Amendment

Answer 16

Limits congressional pay raise