Constitution & Amendments Review

What is an amendment?

• A change or addition

• An introduction or statement of purpose

• A formal meeting called for a special purpose

• A belief or judgement of an individual group

The 18th Amendment, Prohibition, was repealed by the ____ Amendment. This is the only amendment in US history to get rid of an earlier amendment.

• 11th

• 21st

• 27th

• 15th

Which of the following amendments help those accused of crimes?

• 2

• 6

• 5

• 12

President Lincoln helped make sure this amendment was passed to solve the main problem that had led to the Civil War and to expand his earlier Emancipation Proclamation to apply to the whole country. What is this amendment?

• 10

• 13

• 16

• 19

Freedom of religion (establishment & free exercise clauses), speech, press, assembly, and petition.

• 1st Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 8th Amendment
• 12th Amendment

The Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited  by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people

• 2nd Amendments
• 10th Amendment
• 3rd Amendment
• 8th Amendment

Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive from imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.

• 8th Amendment
• 2nd Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 20th Amendment

Right to bear arms

• 3rd Amendment
• 6th Amendment
• 2nd Amendment
• 18th Amendment

Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizure

• 8th Amendent
• 6th Amendment
• 2nd Amendment
• 4th Amendment

No quartering of Soldiers

• 6th Amendment
• 3rd Amendment
• 12 Amendment
• 8th Amendment