Quizizz review # 7

After a change to the constitution has been proposed by 2/3 of both Houses of Congress, what fraction of the state legislatures must ratify (approve) the amendment before it is added to the U.S. Constitution?

• 2/3

• 1/2

• 3/4

• 1/3

Which amendment is represented in the picture?

• 19th

• 24th

• 26th

• 15th

Which amendment is represented in the picture?

• 15th

• 19th

• 23rd

• 26th

It is difficult to amend the constitution because the framers wanted to make sure _____.

• changes were only made when absolutely necessary

• no one ever changed the Constitution

• hardly anyone got a say

• the President got all the say

Gave citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.

• 23rd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 26th Amendment

Made charging a poll tax to vote illegal.

• 23rd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

26th Amendment

• Everyone is equally protected by the law

• Happened during the Vietnam War, when young men were being drafted to fight, but did not have the right to vote. Lowering the voting age to 18 years of age.

• Banning of poll taxes (charged a tax to vote – which kept African American from voting after the civil war and well into the 1960s)

Slavery was abolished in 1865 by

• Amendment 3
• Amendment 4
• Amendment 13
• Amendment 14

What is the amount of votes needed in Congress for the proposal of an amendment?

• 1/4 of congress

• 2/9 of congress

• 3/4 of congress

• 2/3 of congress