Social Studies # 1 Review

In order to be a good citizen, you should.

• Travel

• buy a house

• vote

• watch televsion

What is the purpose of Due Process?

• to ensure that citizens are severely punished

• to make false accusations against citizens

• to ensure that guilty citizens are punished fairly

• to make sure that guilty citizens have to wait a long time for trial

The 19th Amendment

• allowed African Americans to become politicians

• gave all people the right to vote

• allowed women to become politicians

• gave all women the right to vote.

The 24th Amendment ended

• the denial of voting rights based on gender

• the use of literacy test

• denial of voting rights based on race

• banned poll taxes

The 15th, 19th, 23rd, and 26th amendments are

• Due Process amendments

• Liberty Amendments

• Immigration Amendments

• Voting Rights amendments

When an amendment is proposed, it must be ratified by the states.

• True

• False

In order to propose an amendment to the Constitution, it must be approved by 2/3 of the House and Senate.

• True

• False

The 26th amendment

• lowered the voting age to 18

• gave women the right to vote

• banned poll taxes

• banned literacy test

The amendment process is important because the founding fathers knew that it might need to be changed

• True

• False

Opportunity cost is what you give up in order to get something else

• True

• False