Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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What is the purpose of the11th
Amendment
a. | Protect the U.S. Government from
being sued | c. | Puts limits on the
number of state courts
| b. | Protect the states from being sued in U.S.
Courts
| d. | Puts limits on the number of state
and U.S. courts
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What is the purpose of the
12th
Amendment?
a. | To give Congress power over
Presidential elections | c. | To make sure the
President and Vice President are elected as a team | b. | To make sure the President and Vice President are members
of different parties | d. | To make sure the President and Vice
President have college educations |
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What does the
13th Amendment say about
slavery?
a. | Slavery is permitted on a limited
basis | c. | White people cannot be slaves, but
black people can | b. | No slavery of any kind is permitted in the U.S.
| d. | Children cannot work in
factories |
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What is “involuntary
servitude?”
a. | Black people can be slaves if the
volunteer to be | c. | Forced labor for a
specific number of years | b. | Adults can be slaves, but children cannot | d. | Voluntary labor for a specific number of
years |
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What does the
14th Amendment say about
citizenship?
a. | If you are born in the U.S. you are
a natural citizen and you can vote. | c. | Black people can vote if the elections are
natural | b. | You are a natural citizen only if you pass the citizenship
test | d. | Black people can only be citizens if their parents were
citizens |
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What does the “equal
protection” clause of the 14th Amendment say?
a. | Black people have to be treated the
same as other people by the U.S. government but not by the states | c. | People have to protect
themselves | b. | The laws can be different for different groups of
people | d. | The laws have to be applied to everyone
equally |
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What does the
15th Amendment
say?
a. | Black people cannot be made to
suffer | c. | People cannot be prevented from
voting because of their race | b. | Black men and women have the right to vote | d. | Black people can vote only if their parents were
slaves |
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In the 1800’s the
15th Amendment did not
apply to women. Why?
a. | Women do not understand
politics | c. | As long as their
husbands voted there was no need for women to vote | b. | Very few women were able to read at the
time | d. | No women, black or white, were able to vote at the
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Which ideological group of
people wanted the income tax so the government would have money for social
programs?
a. | Liberal/Progressives | c. | Hispanics | b. | Conservative/Libertarians | d. | anarchists |
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As a result of the
16th Amendment, which group
became stronger?
a. | Labor
unions | c. | Senior
citizens | b. | Ordinary citizens | d. | The government |
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What changes were made as a
result of the 17th
Amendment?
a. | The states appointed Senators to
office | c. | Senators were elected directly by
the people | b. | Senators were elected through the electoral
college | d. | The 17th Amendment had no effect on
Senators |
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. Why did Liberal/Progressives
push the 18th
Amendment
a. | Liberal/Progressives believe that
people need to be protected from their own bad behavior | c. | They were concerned because poor people had less money for alcohol than rich
people | b. | They wanted people to use marijuana instead of
alcohol | d. | They thought people should drink more
milk |
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What did the
19th Amendment
do?
a. | Gave all women the right to vote
| c. | Said women should not be made to
suffer | b. | Gave women the right to vote if they were
married | d. | Gave white women the right to
vote |
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What is the
“20th Amendment
concerned with?
a. | Cruelty to
ducks | c. | The power of the
president | b. | The power of the Congress | d. | How long presidents are elected
for |
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What did the
21st Amendment
do?
a. | It overturned the
18th
Amendment | c. | It made the Mafia
possible in the U.S. | b. | It made alcohol illegal | d. | It made alcohol legal in the U.S. and the individual
states |
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What did the
21st Amendment say about
the states?
a. | Alcohol was now legal in all of the
states | c. | The states have to conform to
religious law | b. | The states can make their own laws about
alcohol | d. | It said nothing about the
states |
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Which president established the
tradition that presidents should only be elected twice?
a. | Lincoln | c. | Franklin Roosevelt | b. | Washington | d. | Donald Trump |
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Why did people believe the
22nd Amendment was
necessary?
a. | They were afraid that the President
might have too much power | c. | They thought that the President needed two terms to get his policies adopted
by Congress | b. | They were concerned that the President did not have enough
power | d. | They thought the ideology of FDR was more important than
the ideology of Washington |
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Why was the
23rd Amendment necessary
for the people of Washington D.C. to vote for President?
a. | Most citizens of Washington D.C. are
African Americans | c. | Most D.C.
residents were Democrats | b. | It was not necessary because the people in Washington D.C. already had the
vote | d. | Washington D.C. is not a
state |
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What is a poll
tax?
a. | A tax Polish people need to pay to
vote | c. | A law that says only people who pay
taxes can vote | b. | A fee people must pay to register to vote | d. | A way of bribing politicians |
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Why did many Americans believe
we needed the 24th
Amendment?
a. | Most Americans believed we did NOT
need the Amendment | c. | Many poor people
could not afford the poll tax so they never got to vote | b. | It was a way of financing
elections | d. | To restrict voting to American
citizens |
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Why was the
25th Amendment
necessary?
a. | To make the President more powerful
| c. | To make it clear who would become
President if the current President was killed or disabled | b. | To make the President less
powerful | d. | To make sure only elected officials
could become President |
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23.
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. If the President and the Vice
President are both killed or disabled, who takes over as President?
a. | The President Pro Temp of the
Senate | c. | The Secretary of
State | b. | The Speaker of the House of Representatives | d. | No one. They have to hold a special
election |
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The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to
18. Which President said, “If you are old enough to fight and die for your country, you should
be old enough to vote?”
a. | Lyndon
Johnson | c. | George
Washington | b. | John Kennedy | d. | Richard Nixon |
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