Amendments XI-XXVII

Question 1

What is amendment XI?

Answer 1

Suing states

Question 2

What is amendment XII?

Answer 2

Separate ballots for president

Question 3

A citizen of _____ _______ (or ______ _______) may not sue another state in federal court without that state’s permission. The case belongs in a _______ _____ ______

Answer 3

~one state
~foreign country
~state’s own court

Question 4

What happens if there is a deadlock for who is the president and vice president?

Answer 4

the house selects the president from the top three candidates and the senate selects from the top two candidates for vice president.

Question 5

The vice president must have the same qualifications as ________

Answer 5

president

Question 6

What are amendments XIII-XV called?

Answer 6

Reconstruction amendments

Question 7

What is amendment XIII?

Answer 7

Slavery abolished

Question 8

What is the exception to no slavery or involuntary servitude?

Answer 8

Being convicted of a crime (prisoners fixing roads in the south; trash detail in Maine)

Question 9

What is Amendment XIV?

Answer 9

Citizenship defined

Question 10

All persons _______ or _________ are citizens of the U.S.

Answer 10

born; naturalized

Question 11

No state can take any citizen’s right to _____, _______, and _________ without due process of law.

Answer 11

Life, liberty, property

Question 12

What is amendment XV?

Answer 12

Black voting rights

Question 13

_________, __________, _______ or previous condition of ________ cannot prevent any citizen from voting.

Answer 13

Race, color, servitude

Question 14

What are literacy tests?

Answer 14

people were made to read hard to read documents in order to vote (Most black people at the time could not read)

Question 15

What are white primaries?

Answer 15

Primaries in the south where only white people could vote

Question 16

What is a grandfather clause?

Answer 16

If you, your father, or your grandfather voted before 1867, you could vote without the regulations around it.

Question 17

What are poll taxes?

Answer 17

You have to pay a tax in order to vote

Question 18

What is Gerrymandering?

Answer 18

drawing district lines to prevent a group to overtake another group in that district (Doen with black people in the past, now done with democrats verses republicans)

Question 19

What are amendments XVI-XIX called?

Answer 19

Progressive amendments

Question 20

What is amendment XVI?

Answer 20

the income tax

Question 21

What are income taxes based on?

Answer 21

a person’s income

Question 22

What is amendment XVII?

Answer 22

Direct election of senators

Question 23

How is a vacancy of senators filled?

Answer 23

A special election or
appointment by governor

Question 24

What is amendment XVIII?

Answer 24

Prohibition

Question 25

The __________, _______, or __________ of alcohol is prohibited under amendment XVIII.

Answer 25

manufacturing, sale, transport

Question 26

What is Amendment XIX?

Answer 26

woman's sufferage

Question 27

What were the supports and those against woman's suffrage called?

Answer 27

Yellow roses were supporters and red roses were against them.

Question 28

What is Amendment XX called?

Answer 28

Lame duck amendment

Question 29

What is a lame duck?

Answer 29

An official who is still in office after not being re-elected and thus is without power

Question 30

When does a presidential term end?

Answer 30

January 20th at noon (Inaugration day)

Question 31

When do representatives/senator's terms end?

Answer 31

at noon on January 3rd

Question 32

Congress must convene at least ______ per year.

Answer 32

once

Question 33

Congress must convene at _____ on ______ _____ (unless changed by law)

Answer 33

noon; January 3rd

Question 34

If the president-elect dies before taking office, who takes their place?

Answer 34

Vice president elect

Question 35

if a president-elect is not chosen by inauguration day, who is president until one is chosen?

Answer 35

The vice president

Question 36

If neither president-elect or vice president-elect qualifies (or both die) before inauguration day, who decides the succession?

Answer 36

congress

Question 37

What is the presidential succession?

Answer 37

Vice president, speaker of the house, president pro tempore, cabinet officials in order

Question 38

What is amendment XXI?

Answer 38

repeal of prohibition

Question 39

What was the only amendment ratified by state conventions?

Answer 39

amendment 21

Question 40

What is amendment XXII?

Answer 40

president term limits

Question 41

How many terms can a president have?

Answer 41

2 terms

Question 42

is a vice president is elevated to president for more than _____ years, than that person cannot be elected to president more than _______

Answer 42

two: once

Question 43

what's the longest a president can serve?

Answer 43

10 years

Question 44

What is amendment XXIII?

Answer 44

Voting rights for Washington D.C.

Question 45

How many electoral votes does D.C. have?

Answer 45

3

Question 46

What is amendment XXIV?

Answer 46

poll taxes abolished

Question 47

What is amendment XXV?

Answer 47

presidential succession and disability

Question 48

What happens if the vice president's office becomes vacant?

Answer 48

the president appoints a new vice president but they must be approved by both the Senate and the House.

Question 49

A president can transfer his duties to the _____ if they cannot perform their duty.

Answer 49

vice president

Question 50

Who can officially tell congress they believe that the president is unfit for office?

Answer 50

Vice president, congressional panel, or an executive (cabinet)

Question 51

What happens if someone outside of congress declares the president to be unfit?

Answer 51

the vice president assumes the president the duties of president until the president Declaires themself fit.

Question 52

What happens if there is a disagreement between the president and the panel within four days on if the president if unfit?

Answer 52

Congress resolves the issue by a 2/3rds majority in both houses within 21 days.

Question 53

What is amendment XXVI?

Answer 53

Right to vote for 18-year-olds

Question 54

What is amendment XXVII?

Answer 54

Congressional pay raises