Amendments and the Supreme Court

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment says that the government cannot...

• establish rules about free speech

• Prevent you from practicing the faith of your choice

• declare one religion to be the official religion

• establishing rules for gun ownership

This made poll taxes illegal.

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

• 24th Amendment

• Brown v Board of Ed

This made literacy tests for voting illegal.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Ed

• 24th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Which of the following was NOT a Jim Crow law that kept African Americans from voting in the South prior to the 1960s?

• Grandfather Clauses

• Poll Taxes

• Literacy Tests

• Grandmother Clauses

In the debate over ratifying the Constitution, which group wanted a bill of rights added to the Constitution?

• The Federalists

• The Republicans

• The Democrats

• The Anti-Federalist

The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment says that...

• You can practice any faith you want

• You need to practice the U.S.'s official religion

• Religious faiths can be banned

• You have the right to petition the government

The big deal with the 14th Amendment is that it...

• gave the states more power of the federal government

• gave freedom of speech

• said that states had to treat all people fairly and respect their rights

• ended slavery

Name that amendment: free speech

• 3rd

• 14th

• 2nd

• 1st

________amendment: no cruel and unusual punishment;

Name that amendment: STATES need to give citizens due process and equal protection

• 5th

• 15th

• 4th

• 14th