US Constitutional Amendments

Question 1

First Amendment

Answer 1

5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition

Question 2

Second Amendment

Answer 2

Right to bear arms

Question 3

Third Amendment

Answer 3

No citizen should be forced to quarter soldiers in their homes

Question 4

Fourth Amendment

Answer 4

Protects against unreasonable search and seizure

Question 5

Fifth Amendment

Answer 5

Rights of people accused of crimes

Question 6

Sixth Amendment

Answer 6

Right to a speedy and public trial

Question 7

Seventh Amendment

Answer 7

Right to a trial by jury in civil cases

Question 8

Eighth Amendment

Answer 8

Forbids cruel and unusual punishment and excessive bail and fines

Question 9

Ninth Amendment

Answer 9

People’s rights are not limited to those listed in the Constitution

Question 10

Tenth Amendment

Answer 10

Powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states

Question 11

Eleventh Amendment

Answer 11

When states sue other states, it automatically goes before the Supreme Court. Residents of one state cannot sue another state. Another country can’t sue the US and vice verse.

Question 12

Twelfth Amendment

Answer 12

Requires electors to vote separately for President and Vice President

Question 13

Thirteenth Amendment

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Freed all slaves, abolished slavery

Question 14

Fourteenth Amendment

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Gave full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States

Question 15

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 15

Guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude

Question 16

Sixteenth Amendment

Answer 16

That authorized Congress to enact a national income tax

Question 17

Seventeenth Amendment

Answer 17

Direct election of senators

Question 18

Eighteenth Amendment

Answer 18

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Question 19

Nineteenth Amendment

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Gave women the right to vote

Question 20

Twentieth Amendment

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Moved presidential inauguration from March to January

Question 21

Twenty-first Amendment

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Repealed prohibition

Question 22

Twenty-second Amendment

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Limits the president to two terms in office

Question 23

Twenty-third Amendment

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Washington DC is not a state, but gets 3 electoral votes.

Question 24

Twenty-fourth Amendment

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Prohibits poll tax in federal elections

Question 25

Twenty-fifth Amendment

Answer 25

Addresses succession to the presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president and responding to presidential disabilities

Question 26

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Answer 26

Lowered the voting age to 18

Question 27

Twenty-seventh Amendment

Answer 27

Congress can’t give itself a pay raise