Test 7

Question 1

1st Amendment

Answer 1

Freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press.

Right to petition

Question 2

2nd Amendment

Answer 2

Right to keep and bear arms.

Question 3

3rd Amendment

Answer 3

Right against quartering of soldiers in private houses.

Question 4

4th Amendment

Answer 4

Right against unreasonable searches and seizures.

Question 5

5th Amendment

Answer 5

The right of citizens in legal proceedings.

Question 6

6th Amendment

Answer 6

The right to a speedy and public trial.

Question 7

7th Amendment

Answer 7

The right of trial by jury in civil cases.

Question 8

8th Amendment

Answer 8

The right against excessive punishments.

Question 9

9th Amendment

Answer 9

Unenumerated rights of the people.

Question 10

10th Amendment

Answer 10

Powers reserved to the States or people.

Question 11

11th Amendment

Answer 11

Suits against the States.

Question 12

12th Amendment

Answer 12

Election of President and Vice President.

Question 13

13th Amendment

Answer 13

Abolition of Slavery.

Question 14

14th Amendment

Answer 14

Civil Rights to black Americans, apportionment of representatives.
The source of federal civil rights legislation.

Question 15

15th Amendment

Answer 15

Right of suffrage for black Americans.

Question 16

16th Amendment

Answer 16

Established income tax.

Question 17

17th Amendment

Answer 17

Popular election of the senators.

Question 18

18th Amendment

Answer 18

National Prohibition.

Question 19

19th Amendment

Answer 19

Women’s suffrage.

Question 20

20th Amendment

Answer 20

Moved the date on which newly elected officials take office.

“lame duck” amendment.

Question 21

21st Amendment

Answer 21

Repeal of national prohibition.

Question 22

22nd Amendment

Answer 22

Limitations of Presidential tenure.

Question 23

23rd Amendment

Answer 23

Voting for the District of Coumbia.

Question 24

24th Amendment

Answer 24

Abolition of Poll Taxes.

Question 25

25th Amendment

Answer 25

Presidential and Vice-Presidential succession.

Question 26

26th Amendment

Answer 26

Suffrage for Citizens eighteen years of age and older.

Question 27

27th Amendment

Answer 27

Restrictions on changes in congressional salary.

Question 28

Chaplinsky v. New Hamphire

Answer 28

Justice Murphy ruled that freedom of speech did not include the use of profanity, obscenity, or libel.

Question 29

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Answer 29

The court established three criteria in deciding establishment clause cases.

Question 30

The Brady Law

Answer 30

Requires a waiting period for the purchase of a handgun.

Question 31

What three specific amendments target property rights?

Answer 31

3rd, 4th, and 5th.

Question 32

Furman v. Georgia

Answer 32

The Supreme Court ruled that many state’s capital punishments were cruel and unusual.

Question 33

Which amendment allows jury trial in cases where the sum in dispute is over $20?

Answer 33

The 7th Amendment.

Question 34

Which three amendments all address election procedures?

Answer 34

The 12th, 17th, and 24th Amendments.

Question 35

Which amendment upholds the rights of the people?

Answer 35

The 9th Amendment.

Question 36

Which amendment established prohibition, and which repealed it?

Answer 36

The 18th and 21st Amendment.

Question 37

When do raises in congressional salaries come into effect?

Answer 37

After the next congressional election.

Question 38

What does the emancipation proclaimation state?

Answer 38

Declared the slaves within the Confederacy free.

Question 39

What is the right of eminent domain?

Answer 39

This allows the civil government to take over a person’s land or other private property for public use.

Question 40

What does the right to freedom of press entail?

Answer 40

The right to publish without prior restraint.