Quiz: 1-15, Early America(12/3)
Your Name:
1) Which amendment has libel and slander as limits to its rights?
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2) Which amendment guaranteed African-American suffrage?
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3) Which amendment forbids slavery in America?
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4) Which amendment guarantees your right to have an attorney represent
you at trial?
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5) Which amendment guarantees your right to jury trial in civil cases
for amounts over $20?
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6) Which amendment is most closely associated with National Rifle
Association's rights?
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7) Which amendment limits the police's ability to search your property
or person without permission from the court?
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8) Which amendment guarantees that the electoral college votes for the
President and Vice-President separately?
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9) Which amendment guarantees that troops from Camp Lejeune will not
be staying in your house without your permission?
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10) Which amendment guarantees that you will not be given a life
sentence for a speeding ticket?
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11) Which amendment provides reserved powers for the states?
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12) Which amendment was used by many minority groups to gain equal
protection under the law?
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13) Which amendment states that if one wants to sue a state, they must
do so in that states courts?
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14) Which amendment protects you from double jeopardy- can't be tried
twice for the same crime?
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15) Which amendment guarantees you more rights than those listed in the
constitution?
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16) Which set of colonies was noted for its agricultural ways and cash
crops?
Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
17) Which policy was being followed by the British prior to the 1770s
in which the colonies were permitted to act nearly independent of
British interference but maintained British rights?
mercantilism
feudalism
Salutary neglect
populism
despotism
18) What battle was the turning point of the American Revolution
because of France's decision to enter on the side of the colonies?
Lexington and Concord
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Saratoga
Bunker Hill
19) From which enlightened philosopher did Thomas Jefferson base his
famous quote "life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness"?
Jean Jaques Rousseau
Voltaire
Montesquieu
John Locke
Napolean
20) What is the trip from Africa to the New World that slaves took
referred to as?
Middle Passage
Triangle Trade
Witch Trial
Salutary Neglect
Emancipation
21) Which of the following acted as a precedent for the written
constitution in America?
Bill of Rights
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Order of Connecticut
Salem Witch Trials
Committees of Correspondence
22) What acted as our nation's first attempt at self-government and was
essentially a "firm league of friendship"?
Articles of Confederation
bill of rights
Proclamation of 1763
Declaration of Independence
Zenger Case
23) Which event was essientially a propaganda tool of the colonists in
favor of independence to show the brutality of the British?
Boston Tea Party
Zenger Case
Boston Massacre
Proclamation of 1763