1. Quiz Video Amendments 11-27
History 10th hour 9/21/18
Quiz
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Amendments 11-27

2. Amendments 11-27

3. 11th Amendment Limits suits against states
People in different states or different countries can’t sue a state in federal court
A state government can only be sued by its own courts

4. 12th Amendment Electing President and Vice President
should there be no majority vote for one person, the House of Representatives (one vote per state) chooses the president and the Senate the vice president.

5. 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery Except as a punishment for a crime
Reconstruction Amendment

6. 14th Amendment Defines citizenship
Anyone born or naturalized in the US (regardless of race, religion, etc) is a citizen and has rights
No state can deny citizenship
Reconstruction Amendment

7. 15th Amendment Reconstruction Amendment
African American men receive the right to vote
Not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)
Reconstruction Amendment

8. Reconstruction Amendments
Reconstructing America after the war
Establish equality for African Americans

9. 16th Amendment
Allows the government to collect an income tax from all Americans.
Income tax allows for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out other important duties.

10. 17th Amendment People directly vote for Senators
The Senate of the US will be composed of two senators

11. 18th Amendment
Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol
Only amendment to be repealed
Prohibition
Passed in 1917-Repealed in 1933

12. 19th Amendment Women receive the right to vote
Government cannot deny people the right to vote based on their gender
School house rock suffrage

13. 20th Amendment Term Limits
Sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end. 
Term ends/begins at noon on January 20th for President and Vice President

14. 21st Amendment Repealed the 18th Amendment
Now legal to manufacture, sale, and consume alcohol

15. 22nd Amendment President may only serve 2 terms
Can serve 10 years if served as President from being a VP

16. 23rd Amendment
 Gives residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College. Since DC is not a state, its residents were not allowed to vote for President as well as elected voting representative to Congress.

17. 24th Amendment
Can not keep citizens from voting by using taxes (poll tax)
Used to have to pay a tax to vote but not anymore

18. 25th Amendment
If President dies or leaves office the Vice President becomes President
The new President (old VP) nominates the new Vice President…then it goets voted on by the houses of congress.

19. 26th Amendment Lowered the voting age to 18
If you are 18 you cant be told “you cant vote” because of your age

20. 27th Amendment
When Congress votes to increase salaries, it will start at the beginning of the next term
Congress can’t give itself a pay raise, it goes to the next Congress