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Chapter One Flashcards

1
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What are the five Checks and Balances?

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  1. ) veto
  2. ) override veto
  3. ) impeachment
  4. ) declare war
  5. ) treaties
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What are the five types of people the president may appoint and what are their contingencies?

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  1. ) agency leaders (the president may fire most agency leaders)
  2. ) federal judges (majority vote of the senate, the president cannot fire federal judges)
  3. ) diplomats (approved by the majority of the senate. The president can fire diplomats)
  4. ) military commanders (includes generals and admins, the president can appoint them on his own and fire them n his own)
  5. )Vice president (25th amendment allows president to appoint new VP is there is no current one- however this is the only power both the house and senate have to vote on together- majority rules)
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3
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ESSAY

Who was allowed to vote in America 200 years ago?

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Requirements

  1. ) own property 3.) white
  2. ) be 21 or older 4.) male 5.) a citizen

Only 17% of people were able to vote

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Essay continued: How was it changed?

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Congress passed the voting rights act of 1965.
- no land needed (this now made it easier for white men without property)
- black men were now allowed to vote
Vietnam war effected this too
-26th amendment lowered voting age to 18

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Essay continued: How did they oppressed the voting rights of our black citizens?

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  1. ) poll tax required- $25 and most black men could not afford it (this ended because of the 24th amendment)
  2. ) literacy test- made you pass a reading or writing test which they knew was not realistic or even possible for most black citizens because in 1831 a slave named Nat Turner started a slave revolt which led to making it illegal to teach slaves how to read and write
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Essay continued: How were white men still able to vote if they couldn’t afford the poll tax or pass the literacy test, and why didn’t this help black men?

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The grand father clause- you had to have proof your grandfather did one of the following- owned land, payed taxes, served on a jury, ect… Black men had slaves for grandfathers, so they did none of these things.

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7
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When did the civil war take place?

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1861-1865

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8
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When did the French-Indian war take place?

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1754-1763

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9
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When did the American Revolution take place?

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1765-1783

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10
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What % of southerners owned most of the slaves?

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1%

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True or False: Those who owned slaves were the only people allowed to run for government office in the south?

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True

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12
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Instead of slaves who did the north use for free labor?

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Immigrants

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13
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Who became the first republican president in December of the 1860 election?

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Abraham Lincoln

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14
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When did the south finally rebel?

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When Lincoln won the White House and republicans won the house.

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What were 90% of republicans called?

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Lincolnites

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16
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What were the other 10% of republicans called? What did they control?

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Radicals, and they controlled congress.

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17
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When was Lincoln sworn in?

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March 1861

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18
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Which southern state was the first to rebel?

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Carolina

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19
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True or False: 6 southern states rebelled, they called themselves “The Confederate States of America”

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False, 7 states rebelled

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20
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Who was the first and only confederate president?

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Jefferson Davis

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21
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Who ran the confederate army?

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Robert E Lee

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22
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Why was it legal for the south to secede?

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Because there isn’t anything in the constitution about states seceding.

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23
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What law did the south break?

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There is a federal law that prohibits violence and rebellion.

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24
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True or false: Lincoln raised 75,000 troops to crush the 7 states and called it treason.

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True

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25
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After Lincoln raised his troop how many more states joined the confederacy?

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4

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26
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True or false: the civil war had the least amount of American deaths than any other war in the History of the United States.

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False, the American civil war had the highest death count of American citizens than in any other war.

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27
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True or false: Lincoln always said the war was about treason- not slavery.

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True

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28
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What was the name of the man who tried to convince Lincoln to free the slaves? What perspective did he have?

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Fredrick Douglas, he was a former slave.

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29
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In what year did Lincoln finally decide to try and free the slaves?

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1862

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30
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What was the Emancipation proclamation and what impact did it have?

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  • it was an executive order, which means it was passed by Lincoln and not congress
  • he broke the law by doing this however he was not impeached
  • it called for all slaves in the confederacy to free all their slaves, slaves in other southern states however were not free
  • southerns ignored it because they saw Jefferson as their president, and not Lincoln
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31
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What law kept slaves from running?

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The 1850 fugitive slave act

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32
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What was the fugitive slave act?

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If a slave escaped and you aided him or her, you would go to jail. You were required to turn them into the authorities.

33
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True or False: Lincoln said if slaves escaped and made it to the north, not to send them back

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True

34
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True or false: if slaves escaped to the north, Lincoln did not want them to have jobs, as those jobs were for hard working white men

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False, Lincoln instructed the army to find former slaves jobs.

35
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True or false: Lincoln did not allow black men to fight for the us government?

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False

36
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Why where France and England originally on the side of the south?

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They wanted their cotton

37
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True or false: The United States was quickly becoming the number one country

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True

38
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Which book convinced Queen Victoria to switch sides to the north? Who wrote that book?

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

39
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True or false: eventually France and England both sent troops to help aid the north.

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False, they decided to stay out of it

40
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Who killed Lincoln in the theatre where he (the killer) worked?

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John Wilkes Boothe

41
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What are the two definitions of ex post facto laws?

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  • if you do something that is legal, and later the law makes it illegal, you can not be prosecuted
  • if you are sentenced for a crime your sentence for THAT crime can not be worsened
42
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What is a bill of attainder?

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A law that tries to punish people without trial

43
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Give an example or two of bills of attainder.

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  • Jim Crowe laws (segregation)
  • during the war with Japan the US government tried to have all Japanese Americans locked up
  • the 14th amendment was used by women to gain the right to vote in 1920, and gay people used it in 2015 because gay marriage was illegal
44
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Who wrote the bill of rights?

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James Madison

45
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What was the establishment clause of the first amendment?

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Separation of church and state, meaning you cannot make laws based on religion. Public schools can not allow religious prayer to artifacts. NO NATIONAL RELIGION.

46
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What are the five freedoms of the first amendment?

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  1. ) speech
  2. ) press
  3. ) religion
  4. ) petition
  5. ) assembly

Madison wrote that the congress can not restrict these

47
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What is a restriction on free speech?

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Slander

48
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What is a restriction on freedom of the press?

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Libel

49
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What is a restriction on freedom of religion? Who banned this in 1890?

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Polygamy, Mormons

50
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What are restrictions of petition?

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  • You can not send threats or try and kill people
  • you can not block traffic
  • you can not be in a public place after closing
51
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What does the second amendment protect?

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The right to keep and bear arms

52
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What does the fourth amendment say?

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There are to be no unwarranted searches

53
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How can police get around the fourth amendment?

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Probable cause- if the police hear, see, or smell anything suspicious they can search without warrant. Example: you get pulled over and your car smells like weed

54
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What is the second way police can get around the fourth amendment?

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If a cop asks you if they can search your car, or whatever they ask to search and you say yes, you wave your rights under the fourth amendment.

55
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Under the fifth amendment what is emanate domain?

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Any government can take your property, however if that county wants to take your property they must compensate you and it must be for the good of the government

56
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True or false: under the fifth amendment there is no self incrimination- meaning you can not be forced into confession, and you can not be forced to testify against yourself.

A

True

57
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True or false: there is no double jeopardy- meaning the dude from jeopardy is freaking the law on his game show, because double jeopardies are not allowed.

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False, it means you can not be tried for the same offense twice

58
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What is protected under the sixth amendment?

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The right to a lawyer

59
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True or false: You do not have the right to wave your rights to a jury trial.

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False, in some states you can wave your rights to a jury trial

60
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What does the eighth amendment prohibit?

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No cruel or unusual punishment. Has been used to refute death penalty.

61
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What percent of the duty needs to agree to make a conviction or Acquittal?

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100%

62
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True or false: to be executed, it has to be a unanimous vote

A

True

63
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What is proportionality?

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The punishment must match the crime.

64
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What is federalism?

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1 federal government, and 86,000 state governments: states, counties, cities, and school districts.

65
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What are national powers?

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Expressed powers: army, national government can declare war and states can’t, post office, print money, states have no right to step in on immigration.

66
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What does the 10th amendment include?

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Any powers after these are reserved powers for the states such as abortion, schools, marriage, and construction

67
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What did the thirteenth amendment do?

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Abolished slavery once and for all

68
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What did the fourteenth amendment do?

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Gave black people citizenship

69
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What is the equal protection clause?

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All Americans should be treated equally

70
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Which amendment gave black men the right to vote?

A

15th

71
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What does the 16th amendment involve?

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Federal income tax

72
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Which amendment created a 13 year prohibition of alcohol?

A

The 18th

73
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Which amendment repealed the eighteenth amendment?

A

The 21st

74
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Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

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The 19th

75
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Which amendment bans more than 2 terms?

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22nd

76
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Which amendment ended the poll tax?

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The 24th

77
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Which amendment allows for president to choose a new VP?

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The 25th

78
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Which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?

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The 26th

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