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Worksheet on Amendments

Read through the Amendments to the Constitution on pages 240 – 244 and answer the following questions.

1. Which amendment extended the vote to 18 year olds and what year was it passed?

2. Which amendment outlaws “cruel and unusual punishments?”

3. Which amendment ended slavery?

4. Which amendment said that states couldn’t prevent people from voting based on their race?

5. Which amendment said that a person couldn’t be tried twice for the same crime?

6. Which amendment defined citizenship?

7. Which amendment prohibited alcohol? Which Amendment repealed the prohibition on alcohol?

8. Which amendment gave women the right to vote and what year was it passed?

9. Which amendment requires a warrant to search someone's property?

10. Name the five basic civil liberties guaranteed in the First Amendment.

11. Which four amendments expanded the electorate (people eligible to vote?)

12 Which amendments denied power to the national government?

13. What actions does the Fourteenth Amendment prevent states from doing?

14. Which Amendments protect the rights of defendants?

15. How does the Seventeenth Amendment say that Senators will be chosen?

16. Which amendments made changes in how the machinery of government works?