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Total questions: 43
Worksheet time: 22mins
The ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment resulted in helping young people in the United States by
creating jobs for unemployed young people
guaranteeing a minimum wage
lowering the voting age to 18 from 21 years old
providing financial assistance while in college
The Twenty-fourth Amendment sought to correct a situation that was widespread in the South primarily as a result of the
decline of the Ku Klux Klan
activities of the Freedman's Bureau
use of a poll tax to block voting by African Americans
passage of the Black Codes
What three amendments are considered the Reconstruction Amendments?
1st, 2nd, 3rd
13th, 14th, 15th
25th, 26th, 27th
4th, 5th, 6th
Which of the Reconstruction Amendments addressed the right of African-American males to vote?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
Which of these was NOT a method using to prevent blacks from voting in the South?
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Income taxes
The "Grandfather Clause"
Besides the 14th Amendment, what amendment (in the Bill of Rights) addresses Due Process?
1st Amendment
4th Amendment
5th Amendment
6th Amendment
Which was an underlying cause of the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment?
unequal distribution of income tax rates
failure to provide voting rights to women
establishment of a graduated income tax
events associated with the war in Vietnam
The Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-sixth amendments are similar in that each
shifted more power to state governments
extended the vote to disenfranchised groups
put limits on Presidential powers
expanded the rights of the accused
In the election of 1796, Federalist John Adams was elected President, while his Democratic-Republican opponent, Thomas Jefferson, received the second most electoral votes. As a result, Jefferson became Vice President.
This situation was prevented from ever occurring again with the adoption of which amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
12th Amendment
20th Amendment
23rd Amendment
25th Amendment
This Amendment provided a process if a President dies, resigns or is removed from office.
20th Amendment
22nd Amendment
23rd Amendment
25th Amendment
Washington D.C. was given the electoral votes in a Presidential election.
20th Amendment
22nd Amendment
23rd Amendment
25th Amendment
What is the common theme of the Twelfth, Twentieth, Twenty-second, and Twenty-fifth Amendments?
modify certain aspects of the office of the President
extend voting rights to former enslaved peoples
expand the powers of the executive branch
protect the civil rights of American citizens
This amendment allowed people to have a more direct role in government by allowing people a larger more direct role in the governmental process.
16th
17th
18th
19th
This amendment allowed for money to be collected from individuals via the income tax.
16th
17th
18th
19th
5th Amendment
No self-incrimination
No double jeopardy
Due process
The right to a jury trial in civil cases involving more than $20
No cruel and unusual punishment
No excessive bail
The right to a fair, speedy and public trial in criminal cases.
The right to a lawyer.
6th Amendment
No self-incrimination
No double jeopardy
Due process
The right to a jury trial in civil cases involving more than $20
No cruel and unusual punishment
No excessive bail
The right to a fair, speedy and public trial in criminal cases.
The right to a lawyer.
7th Amendment
No self-incrimination
No double jeopardy
Due process
The right to a jury trial in civil cases involving more than $20
No cruel and unusual punishment
No excessive bail
The right to a fair, speedy and public trial in criminal cases.
The right to a lawyer.
8th Amendment
No self-incrimination
No double jeopardy
Due process
The right to a jury trial in civil cases involving more than $20
No cruel and unusual punishment
No excessive bail
The right to a fair, speedy and public trial in criminal cases.
The right to a lawyer.
You can protest in public against the government
True
False
