Amendment 11-27 Review: Directions: The State of Ohio Places A Heavy Emphasis On The Amendments To The US

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Amendment 11-27 Review


Directions: The state of Ohio places a heavy emphasis on the amendments to the US
Constitution. This activity is meant to help you review the significance of each amendment as
well as the conditions that led to the passage of each amendment. Cut out each of the attached
squares, then paste them next to the correct amendment in the appropriate columns. After that:
 Color code each of the amendments that have to do with suffrage (3 points).
 Color code each amendment that has to do with the Presidency (3 points).

Amendment What it does… Cause(s) and Conditions

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PROGRESSIVE ERA AMENDMENTS
Amendment What it does… Cause(s) and Conditions

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ALL THE REST
Amendment What it does… Cause(s) and Conditions

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7 What it does
Gave citizens over the age of 18 Permanently abolished/got rid of
the right to vote. slavery in the US.

Prevents members of Congress


from giving themselves pay Repealed the 18th Amendment
raises during the current
session of Congress.
Clarifies what happens upon the
death, removal or resignation of Granted women the right to vote.
the President or Vice President.
Passed to allow for a federal Treats the District of Columbia
income tax. like a state in terms of the
Electoral College.
Placed a permanent ban on Shortened the time between
alcohol. elections and when presidents and
members of Congress take office.
Prohibits the use of poll taxes All people born or “Naturalized”
in federal elections. in the US were citizens of the US.

Provides for the direct election Limits the jurisdiction of courts


of US senators by the people. so that a person from one state
cannot sue another state.
The President may only serve two Granted people the right to vote
four-year terms. regardless of skin color or
“previous condition of servitude.”
Allowed separate balloting for
President and Vice President.
Runner-up does not become VP.

Causes/Conditions
Alcohol is believed to be linked to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
social problems such as poverty was elected to four terms as
and the destruction of family life. President of the United States.

Poll taxes were used to keep poor After the Civil War, and
people and African Americans Reconstruction, southern states
from voting, tried to limit the rights of African
Americans.

Chisholm V. Georgia: Two South After the Civil War, and


Carolina men sued the state of Reconstruction, southern states
Georgia in order to collect debt tried to limit the rights of African
from the state. Americans.

Created after a near tie in Electoral Was created to prevent a conflict


Votes in the election of 1800. No of interest among members of
majority goes to the House. Congress. Took 203 years to be
ratified.

Reconstruction (Post The Vietnam War


Civil War)
The population of Washington People did not like the way tariffs
D.C. has been growing. The were being used to fund the
people there take on all of the federal government. Also created
responsibilities that citizens of the due to concerns over the
US have. distribution of wealth in the US.
Lyndon B. Johnson, who has a Difficulties enforcing the
history of heart problems, takes Volstead Act as well as
office following the assassination widespread disregard for
of John F. Kennedy. Prohibition.

Improvements in transportation Critics of state politics did not


and communication…. Also the like the way political bosses and
desire to avoid “lame duck” businesspeople had a lot of
periods when a new person is influence over the way state
elected into office. legislatures chose US senators.
Passed in part thanks to the efforts
of the Women’s Suffrage
Movement and the role women
took at home during the First
World War.

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