Questions & Expertly Verified Answers
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10th Amendment -
Answer✅
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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14th Amendment (1868) -
Answer✅
Grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"; it forbids any state to deny
any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws."
-Most important law ever passed besides original Constitution and Bill of Rights.
-It has been the vehicle for the expansion of civil rights, women's rights, gay rights among
other movements. It also allowed for the "incorporation doctrine" which means the
application of the national Bill of Rights to the states.
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15th Amendment (1870) -
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, Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
-Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be
fully realized for almost a century.
-Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means, Southern states were able to
effectively disenfranchise African Americans. It would take the passage of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote
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19th Amendment (1920) -
Answer✅
-Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment
guarantees all American women the right to vote.
-Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of
agitation and protest.
-Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters
lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many
Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution
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26th Amendment -
Answer✅
-Passed by Congress March 23, 1971, and ratified July 1, 1971, the 26th amendment granted
the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older.
Quiz_________________?
2nd Amendment (1791) -
Answer✅
Right to keep and bear arms
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Quiz_________________?
10th Amendment -
Answer✅
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Quiz_________________?
14th Amendment (1868) -
Answer✅
Grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the US"; it forbids any state to deny
any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws."
-Most important law ever passed besides original Constitution and Bill of Rights.
-It has been the vehicle for the expansion of civil rights, women's rights, gay rights among
other movements. It also allowed for the "incorporation doctrine" which means the
application of the national Bill of Rights to the states.
Quiz_________________?
15th Amendment (1870) -
Answer✅
1
, Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
-Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be
fully realized for almost a century.
-Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means, Southern states were able to
effectively disenfranchise African Americans. It would take the passage of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote
Quiz_________________?
19th Amendment (1920) -
Answer✅
-Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment
guarantees all American women the right to vote.
-Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of
agitation and protest.
-Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters
lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many
Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution
Quiz_________________?
26th Amendment -
Answer✅
-Passed by Congress March 23, 1971, and ratified July 1, 1971, the 26th amendment granted
the right to vote to American citizens aged eighteen or older.
Quiz_________________?
2nd Amendment (1791) -
Answer✅
Right to keep and bear arms
Quiz_________________?
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