Contitutional Amendments (Unit 4, Lesson 3)

Question 1

What did the 11th Amendment say?

Answer 1

Set limits on when a state can be sued.

Question 2

What did the 12th Amendment say?

Answer 2

Changed the presidential election procedures.

Question 3

What did the 13th Amendment say?

Answer 3

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

Question 4

What did the 14th Amendment say?

Answer 4

Defined what it means to be a US citizen. Stops states from reducing the privileges of citizens and ensures each citizen the ‘right to due process and the equal protection of the law’.

Question 5

What did the 15th Amendment say?

Answer 5

Gave all men the right to vote regardless of race or color or whether they had been slaves.

Question 6

What did the 16th Amendment say?

Answer 6

Gave the federal government the power to collect income tax.

Question 7

What did the 17th Amendment say?

Answer 7

Senators would be directly elected by the people.

Question 8

What did the 18th Amendment say?

Answer 8

Alcoholic drinks illegal. (Later repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment)

Question 9

What did the 19th Amendment say?

Answer 9

Gave women the right to vote. It’s also called women’s suffrage.

Question 10

What did the 20th Amendment say?

Answer 10

Terms of office for Congress and the President.

Question 11

What did the 21st Amendment say?

Answer 11

Repealed (got rid of) the Eighteenth Amendment.

Question 12

What did the 22nd Amendment say?

Answer 12

Limited the president to a maximum of two terms or 10 years.

Question 13

What did the 23rd Amendment say?

Answer 13

Gave Washington, DC representatives in the Electoral College.

Question 14

What did the 24th Amendment say?

Answer 14

People don’t have to pay a poll tax in order to vote.

Question 15

What did the 25th Amendment say?

Answer 15

Defined the presidential succession if something should happen to the president. The first in line is the Vice-President.

Question 16

What did the 26th Amendment say?

Answer 16

Set the national voting age at 18.

Question 17

What did the 27th Amendment say?

Answer 17

Congressional salary changes cannot take effect until the beginning of the next session of Congress.

Question 18

What did Marbury v Madison say?

Answer 18

Federal courts can declare legislative and executive actions unconstitutional. Known as judicial review.

Question 19

What did McCulloch v Maryland say?

Answer 19

The Constitution gives the federal government certain powers.

Question 20

What did Gibbons v Ogden say?

Answer 20

When a federal and state law are in conflict, federal law is supreme

Question 21

What did Dred Scott v Sanford say?

Answer 21

Dred Scott, a slave, had moved with his master to Illinois, a free state. He moved again to a slave state, Missouri, and filed suit to gain freedom, under that state’s law of “Once free, always free.” The decision said that Scott had never been free at all, and cited Constitutional grounds for placing the slavery decision in the hands of the states. Later overturned by 13th Amendment.

Question 22

What did Plessy v Ferguson say?

Answer 22

The Court ruled that the race-based “Jim Crow” laws did not violate the Constitution as long as the states gave separate but equal treatment. Overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.

Question 23

What did Brown v Board of Education say?

Answer 23

Separate treatment based on race is unequal.

Question 24

What did Mapp v Ohio say?

Answer 24

Illegally found material can’t be used in a criminal trial.

Question 25

What did Engle v Vitale say?

Answer 25

Public places (like school) can’t require prayer.

Question 26

What did Gideon v Wainwright say?

Answer 26

“Indigent” (homeless) defendants must be given an attorney free of charge.

Question 27

What did Miranda v Arizona say?

Answer 27

Police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning.

Question 28

What did Tinker v Des Moines say?

Answer 28

Students wearing armbands to protest the Vietnam War were not in violation of school dress code.

Question 29

What did US v Nixon say?

Answer 29

The President is not above the law.

Question 30

What did Texas v Johnson say?

Answer 30

Even offensive speech such as flag burning is protected by 1st Amendment.