Amendments

Question 1

Tenth Amendment

Answer 1

reserves powers to the states and the people that are not specifically delegated to the federal government, nor prohibited to the states

Question 2

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 2

grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including those formerly enslaved, and prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws

Question 3

15th amendment

Answer 3

prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen’s right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 4

17th amendment

Answer 4

established the direct election of United States senators in each state

Question 5

19th amendment

Answer 5

prohibits both the federal and state governments from denying or abridging the right to vote based on sex

Question 6

24th amendment

Answer 6

prohibits both the federal government and the states from denying or abridging the right to vote in federal elections due to the failure to pay a poll tax or any other tax

Question 7

26th amendment

Answer 7

lowered the voting age from 21 to 18