1. Chapter 3 : Lesson 3 Amendments

3. Essential Question: Why and how has the US Constitution been amended and interpreted throughout our history?

4. Amendment Review 1-27 First 10 Amendments make-up the Bill of Rights.
Anti-federalist would not approve the Constitution until a Bill of Rights was added.

5. First Amendment: RAPPS 5 Basic Freedoms
R: Religion
A: Assembly
P: Press
P: Petition
S: Speech

6. 2nd Amendment: 3rd Amendment: 4th Amendment:
right to bear arms (weapons)
3rd Amendment:
forbids quartering of soldiers
4th Amendment:
limits searches and seizures (need a warrant)

7. 5th Amendment: due process of law
protection against self-incrimination
I plead the 5th!
double jeopardy
cannot be tried for the same crime twice

8. 6th Amendment: 7th Amendment: 8th Amendment: right to a lawyer
right to a speedy & public trial in criminal cases
7th Amendment:
right to a jury trial in civil cases
8th Amendment:
forbids “cruel and unusual punishment”
forbids excessive bails & fines

9. 9th Amendment: 10th Amendment
entitles you to rights not listed in the Constitution
10th Amendment
powers not given to the U.S. government are reserved to the states (reserved powers)

10. 11th Amendment: 12th Amendment:
places limits on an individual’s right to sue states
12th Amendment:
separate ballots for president and vice president

11. Civil War Amendments 13th Amendment: 14th Amendment: 15th Amendment:
abolished slavery
14th Amendment:
guarantees rights of citizenship, due process and equal protection under the law
15th Amendment:
voting rights for former slaves (African American men)

12. 16th Amendment: 17th Amendment: 18th Amendment:
created a federal income tax
17th Amendment:
U.S. Senators are elected directly by the people rather than by state legislatures
18th Amendment:
prohibition-made the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages illegal

13. 19th Amendment: 20th Amendment: 21st Amendment:
gives women the right to vote (suffrage)
20th Amendment:
sets the dates of presidential and congressional terms
21st Amendment:
repealed (ended) prohibition-alcohol becomes legal again

14. 22nd Amendment: 23rd Amendment: 24th Amendment:
limits the president to two terms
23rd Amendment:
gives people in D.C. the right to vote for the president; D.C. received three electors
24th Amendment:
bans poll taxes (forbids having to pay a tax to vote)

15. 25th Amendment: 26th Amendment: 27th Amendment:
establishes presidential succession
26th Amendment:
lowers the voting age to 18
Passed in response to Vietnam War.
27th Amendment:
regulates the salaries of members of Congress (rules for creating pay raises)

16. Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Rights of the Accused: Mapp v. Ohio, 1961: evidence seized from a person’s residence without a search warrant cannot be used in trial- exclusionary rule.
4th Amendment

17. Rights of the Accused:
Miranda v. Arizona, 1966: established the Miranda Rule, must be read rights when arrested.
5th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963: right to a court appointed lawyer in criminal cases.
6th Amendment

18. Civil Rights & Discrimination
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896: created the “separate but equal” doctrine allowing segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954: desegregated public schools.
Overturned Plessy- “separate but equal doctrine”
14th Amendment

19. Korematsu v. U.S., 1944: allowed relocation of Japanese on the West Coast to interment camps during WWII.
“Military Urgency”- to protect national security

20. School Cases
Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969: students could continue wearing armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech
Hazelwood v. Kulmeier, 1988: censorship of the school newspaper.
Limits 1st Amendment: Freedom of Speech & Press

21. New Jersey v. TLO, 1985: unreasonable search and seizures at school.
4th Amendment: applies to students at school
Engle v. Vitale, 1962: no forced prayer (teacher led) at public schools.
1st Amendment: Freedom of Religion

22. School Cases: Began in North Carolina
Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg BOE, 1971: allowed busing students to integrate schools.
Leandro Case, 1997: equal distribution of wealth to low-income school districts.

23. Rule of Law: no one is above the law -not even the president.
“People have a right to know whether their president is a crook. Well I am not a crook.”
Nixon v. U.S., 1974: President Nixon had to turn over taped conversations incriminating him in the Watergate Scandal.
Rule of Law: no one is above the law -not even the president.
Nixon resigns due to the Watergate Scandal.
Texas v. Johnson, 1989: legal to burn American flag in protest.
1st Amendment: freedom of speech
Roe v. Wade, 1973: legalized abortion
Woman’s right to privacy.

24. SCENARIOS
The government orders a newspaper to stop printing editorials that are criticizing the government too much.

25. SCENARIOS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL

26. SCENARIOS
A person’s house is in the way of a proposed public highway. The government offers the owner a fair price for the house.

27. SCENARIOS
CONSTITUTIONAL

28. SCENARIOS
A man accused of a serious crime refuses to give evidence against himself.

29. SCENARIOS- 300
CONSTITUTIONAL

30. SCENARIOS
A man wants to use sue his neighbor in court because he claims his neighbor cut down a tree that was on his property and belonged to him. The tree was worth $500. The man says that he has the right to a jury trial for this case.

31. SCENARIOS
CONSTITUTIONAL

32. SCENARIOS
A woman accused of a serious crime wants a jury trial, but the government says it doesn’t have enough money for such a trial.

33. SCENARIOS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL

34. Bill of Rights (1-4)
The 2nd Amendment protects the rights of citizens to own what?

35. Bill of Rights (1-4)
WEAPONS

36. Bill of Rights (1-4)
According to the 3rd Amendment, you are not allowed to “quarter” soldiers. What does this mean?

37. Bill of Rights (1-4)
CITIZENS CANNOT BE FORCED TO HOUSE AND FEED SOLDIERS MEANING THAT THE SOLDIERS CANNOT LIVE WITH THEM.

38. Bill of Rights (1-4)
Name 3 of the 5 Freedoms Protected in the 1st Amendment.

39. Bill of Rights (1-4) FREEDOM OF SPEECH FREEDOM OF RELIGION
FREEDOM OF PRESS
FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY
FREEDOM TO PETITION

40. Bill of Rights (1-4)
Which amendment would the following scenarios be protected under?
Criticizing government officials on a television talk show
Promoting ideas that many Americans oppose in a political campaign
Discussing controversial issues in SS class

41. Bill of Rights (1-4)
1st Amendment

42. The 4th Amendment protects against unreasonable
Bill of Rights (1-4)
The 4th Amendment protects against unreasonable

43. Bill of Rights (1-4)
SEARCHES AND SEIZURE

44. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
In the 5th Amendment, it states that the government cannot take your land without

45. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
PAYING YOU FOR IT

46. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
Under the 10th Amendment, all those powers that are not specifically given to the Federal Government are given to who?

47. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
THE STATES

48. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
Which Amendment says that there are rights not listed in the constitution that belong to the people?

49. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
9th AMENDMENT

50. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
What is a guilty person protected from according to the 8th Amendment?
(hint: think of the prisoner in chains)

51. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
PUNISHMENT

52. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
According to the 7th Amendment, what does everyone have a right to in a civil case?

53. BILL OF RIGHTS (5-10)
A JURY TRIAL

54. In 1865, what did the 13th Amendment abolish?
AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
In 1865, what did the 13th Amendment abolish?

55. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
SLAVERY

56. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
In 1868 after the Civil War, which group of people did the the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizen rights to?

57. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
AFRICAN AMERICANS

58. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
•Which group of people did the 15th Amendment give the right to vote in 1870?

59. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
AFRICAN AMERICANS

60. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
In 1920, the 19th Amendment said that neither the federal government or the states can deny people the right to vote because of their sex. Who was allowed to vote based on this amendment?

61. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19,
WOMEN

62. AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
A poll tax in the 24th Amendment means that a state cannot deny someone the right to vote because of what?

63. BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T PAY A SPECIAL VOTING TAX
AMENDMENTS 13, 14, 15, 19, 24
BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T PAY A SPECIAL VOTING TAX

64. Vocabulary
What is the name given to the first ten amendments?

65. Vocabulary
BILL OF RIGHTS

66. Vocabulary
What is an order from a judge that authorizes police or other officials to take a certain action, such as searching one’s property?

67. Vocabulary
SEARCH WARRANT

68. Vocabulary
What word means to formally approve a plan or an agreement?

69. Vocabulary
RATIFY

70. Vocabulary
What are the rights called that the Constitution entitles all people to as citizens, especially equal treatment under the law?

71. Vocabulary
CIVIL RIGHTS

72. Vocabulary
What does suffrage mean?

73. Vocabulary
THE RIGHT TO VOTE

74. Final Jeopardy
The category is Bill of Rights

75. Why was the Bill of Rights added?
Final Jeopardy
Why was the Bill of Rights added?

76. Final Jeopardy
Because the Constitution did not list rights of the citizens AND the states wouldn’t ratify the Constitution until a list of rights was added.

77. Review Question:
Chapter 3 : Lesson 3
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