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Amendments
Question | Answer |
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Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, Speech RAPPS | 1st Amendment |
Protection from unfair government on the national level | 5th Amendment |
Gives all powers not specifically given to the United States government in the Constitution, to either the states | 10th Amendment |
Defines what it means to be a US citizen. and guarantees the right to due process and the equal protection of the law' | 14th Amendment |
Gave all men the right to vote regardless of race or color or whether they had been slaves. | 15th Amendment |
Gave women the right to vote (suffrage) | 19th Amendment |
Residents of Washington, DC be allowed representatives in the Electoral College. so they would have a vote for the president even though they are not officially part of a state. | 23rd Amendment |
Said that people don't have to pay a tax, called a poll tax, in order to vote. | 24th Amendment |
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 years old | 26th Amendment |
Gave the federal government the power to collect income tax. | 16th Amendment |
Banned literacy tests to vote | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |