The Other Amendments

How did the passage of the Voting Rights of 1965 impact political participation?

• All persons who passed a literacy test could now vote.

• All children of foreign citizens could now vote.

• All African-Americans could now vote.

• All women could now vote.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Which amendment is this?

• 13th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Amendment 15 says that all citizens have the right to ______________ regardless of race

• A fair trial
• Rebel
• Vote
• State their opinion

Match the following

• 13th Amendment

• Protects citizenship, requires states to provide due process, and ensures equal protection of laws

• 22nd Amendment

• Eliminates race as a barrier to voting

• 15th Amendment

• Abolishes slavery

• 19th Amendment

• Provides women with the right to vote

• 14th Amendment

• Requires term limits for presidents

All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they live. This is the ____ amendment.

• 11

• 12

• 13

• 14

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) used which of the following?

• 14th Amendment (Equal Protection Clause)

• 10th Amendment (Reserved Powers to the States)

• Commerce Clause

• Article 1, Section 8 (Powers to Congress)

Plessy v. Ferguson gave rise to which of the following clause?

• The right to remain silent.

• Separate but equal.

• Equal Protection Clause

• Free Speech Clause

What Supreme Court landmark case desegregated public schools in the United States?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Mendez v Westminster

• Kapp v Ohio

• Brown v Board

Segregation is unconstitutional because it sends the message that children of color are _______________.

• Equal

• Superior

• Inferior

• Indifferent

Suffrage is ___________________

• the left to vote

• pain caused by injury

• the right to vote