Amendments And Cases

Question 1

13th amendment

Answer 1

Abolished slavery

Question 2

14th amendment

Answer 2

Granted citizenship to former slaves

Question 3

15th amendment

Answer 3

Voting rights to all male citizens

Question 4

16th amendment

Answer 4

Creates an income tax (resulted from Populist Party’s opposition to taxes based on land)

Question 5

17th amendment

Answer 5

Direct election (popular vote) of US Senators

Question 6

18th amendment

Answer 6

Prohibition (prohibits manufacturing, sale, and distribution of alcohol)

Question 7

19th amendment

Answer 7

Women’s suffrage

Question 8

21st amendment

Answer 8

Repealed the 18th (prohibition) amendment

Question 9

25th amendment

Answer 9

Presidential disability and succession guidelines

Question 10

26th amendment

Answer 10

Lowered voting age from 21 to 18

Question 11

Miranda V. Arizona

Answer 11

In this 1966 case the court ruled that before a suspect in police custody can be interrogated, the Fifth Amendment’s no self- incrimination clause requires that he/she must by informed that he/she has a right to remain silent, that he/she has a right to an attorney, etc.

Question 12

Hernandez v. Texas

Answer 12

In this 1954 case, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the equal protection of the laws clause of the US Constitutions 14th amendment is violated when a state tries a person of a particular race or ancestry before a jury from which all persons of the race or ancestry have been excluded while serving.

Question 13

Sweatt v. Painter

Answer 13

In this 1950 case, the US Supreme Court ruled that the equal protection clause of the US Constitution’s 14th amendment required that an African American applicant be admitted to the University of Texas Law school since there was no “separate but equal” state law school for African Americans

Question 14

Tinker v. Des Moines School District

Answer 14

In this 1969 case the US Supreme Court ruled that public school students do have rights protected by the US Constitution and that a school district had violated students’ First Amendment freedom of speech when it suspended them for wearing black armbands to school in silent protest of the Vietnam War.

Answer 15

In this 1972 case the US Supreme Court ruled that a state law requiring all children to attend school until the age of 16 violated the Amish’s free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the US Constitutions first amendment

Question 16

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 16

In this 1896 case the US Supreme Court ruled that state laws requiring “equal but separate” railway accommodations for African Americans and whites did not violate either the US Constitutions 13th amendment’s prohibition of slavery or the equal protection of the laws clause of the 14th amendment

Question 17

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 17

In this 1954 case, the US Supreme Court unanimously overruled the Court’s 1896 decision in Plessy v Ferguson and in doing so declared that racial segregation by state law in public schools. Even though the separate schools may be equal, violates the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the US Constitution 14th amendment