Chapter 5 Terms

Question 1

This amendment abolished slavery

Answer 1

Thirteenth amendment

Question 2

This amendment gave eighteen-year olds the vote

Answer 2

Twenty-sixth amendment

Question 3

This amendment guarantees freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition

Answer 3

First amendment

Question 4

This amendment limits the president to two terms or no more than ten years in office

Answer 4

Twenty-second amendment

Question 5

This amendment provides the clearest constitutional statement of the principle of federalism

Answer 5

Tenth amendment

Question 6

This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment

Answer 6

Eighth amendment

Question 7

This amendment guarantees the right to bear arms

Answer 7

Second amendment

Question 8

This amendment gave woman the right to vote

Answer 8

Nineteenth amendment

Question 9

Defaming a person in writing

Answer 9

Libel

Question 10

The first ten amendments

Answer 10

The bill of rights

Question 11

Drawing district lines to benefit one group or party over another

Answer 11

Gerrymandering

Question 12

An official who is still in office but who was not reelected

Answer 12

Lame duck

Question 13

Supreme Court case expanded the Third and Fourth Amendments to imply aright to privacy as one of American citizens’ fundamental rights

Answer 13

Griswald v Connecticut

Question 14

President broke the two-term precedent set by George Washington

Answer 14

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 15

Article of the Constitution makes provisions for amending the document

Answer 15

Article V

Question 16

Only amendment to the Constitution to be ratified by state conventions

Answer 16

Twenty first amendment

Question 17

Supreme Court case established the right of judicial review

Answer 17

Marbury v Madison

Question 18

The idea that people are the ultimate source of their government’s power

Answer 18

Popular sovereignty

Question 19

Branch of government makes the laws

Answer 19

Legislative branch

Question 20

The right to vote

Answer 20

Franchise