Amendments 10 Points

Abolished slavery forever

Answer: 13th Amendment

Amendments 20 Points

Gave all citizens the right to vote despite their gender

Answer: 19th Amendment

Amendments 30 Points

Gave citizenship to any person born in the United States

Answer: 14th Amendment

Amendments 40 Points

Set the Voting Age; must be 18 to vote

Answer: 26th Amendment

Amendments 50 Points

Granted 3 electoral votes to D.C.; it allowed the people in Washington, D.C. to vote

Answer: 23rd Amendment

Economy 10 Points

Businesses that specialize in loaning money

Answer: Banks

Economy 20 Points

Something you can hold in your hand; you can touch it

Answer: Good

Economy 30 Points

Provides labor in the form of resources, involves families

Answer: Households

Economy 40 Points

A business not controlled by the government; they can be big or small; they produce goods and services

Answer: Private Business

Economy 50 Points

The part that controls taxes; they use this money to pay teachers, police officer, pave roads

Answer: Government

Government 10 Points

A legal system that requires all citizens are treated fairly

Answer: Due Process

Government 20 Points

Congress proposed a new amendment. Then,

Answer:2/3 of the House and Senate must pass the bill.

Government 30 Points

After a proposed amendment is sent to the states, what happens next?

Answer: State legislatures choose to ratify or reject the amendment.

Government 40 PointsWhy do so many people have to vote for an amendment to be made?

Answer: So that small groups of people cannot make changes the majority of people do not want.

Government 50 Points

What is the last step in the amendment process?

Answer: of the states must ratify the amendment so it can be added to the Constitution.

Reconstruction 10 Points

A system that allowed a land owner to lease his land to several farmers and in return got a share of the crops is called

Answer: Sharecropping

Reconstruction 20 Points

This helped the newly freed slaves adjust to their new life; it built things like schools.

Answer: Freedman's Bureau

Reconstruction 30 Points

A law that enforced segregation; African Americans lost all of their rights.

Answer: Jim Crow Laws

Reconstruction 40 Points

Why was sharecropping used?

Answer: Because the land owners did not have money to pay the former slaves for their work and the former slaves did not have money to lease the land.

Reconstruction 50 Points

When blacks and whites were forced to be separated is called

Answer: Segregation

Random 10 Points

A change or addition to the U.S. Constitution

Answer: amendment

Random 20 Points

Gave all citizens the right to vote despite their race

Answer: 15th Amendment

Random 30 Points

Ended the poll tax

Answer: 24th Amendment

Random 40 Points

Name the five amendments that protect our voting rights.

Answer: 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th

Random 50 Points

Something someone does for someone else; an action they perform

Answer: service

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