PSCI 210.01 Exam 1 Questions With
Correct Answers.
1st Amendment - answer✔✔Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
2nd Amendment - answer✔✔Right to bear arms
3rd Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment that prohibits the required quartering of troops.
4th Amendment - answer✔✔No unreasonable searches or seizures
5th Amendment - answer✔✔Criminal Proceedings; Due Process; Eminent Domain; Double
Jeopardy; Protection from Self incrimination
6th Amendment - answer✔✔Criminal Proceedings; Must inform defendant of charge/s; Right to
Attorney; Right to fair impartial jury
7th Amendment - answer✔✔Civil Trial by Jury
8th Amendment - answer✔✔Bails, Fines, and Cruel and Unsusal Punishments
9th Amendment - answer✔✔Citizens entitled to rights not listed in the Constitution
10th Amendment - answer✔✔Asserts that powers not delegated to the national government or
denied to the states are reserved to the states.
11th Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment that sets up rules for suing a state.
12th Amendment - answer✔✔Added the separation of the president and vice president onto two
different ballots
13th Amendment - answer✔✔Abolished Slavery
14th Amendment - answer✔✔1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5
Compromise, 3) Denial of former confederate officials from holding national or state office, 4)
Repudiate (reject) confederate debts
15th Amendment - answer✔✔Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color ,
or precious condition of servitude
16th Amendment - answer✔✔Allows the federal government to collect income tax
17th Amendment - answer✔✔Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the
direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
18th Amendment - answer✔✔Ban on sale, manufacture, and transport of alcoholic beverages.
19th Amendment - answer✔✔Gave women the right to vote
20th Amendment - answer✔✔"Lame Duck" - Moved inauguration date (and start of Congress)
from March to January
21st Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment which ended the Prohibition of alcohol in the US,
repealing the 18th amendment
22nd Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment that created a 2 term limit on presidents.
23rd Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment to the Constituiton that gave residents of Washington
DC the right to vote
24th Amendment - answer✔✔Abolishes poll taxes
25th Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment that creates a chain of succession for filling in the
presidential seat in case of death/incapacitation.
26th Amendment - answer✔✔Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
27th Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment that made Congressional pay raises ineffective until
the next term.
Federalist Party - answer✔✔1st American Political Party, between early 1790's to 1816.
New Jersey Plan - answer✔✔Proposal to create a weak national government
Liberalism v. Conservatism - answer✔✔Liberalists are considered the left wing. Want
government to give everyone equal rights.
Conservatives want personal responsibility. Government should not step in.
Social Contract - answer✔✔Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Groups
should work together for social benefits, (i.e. Sacrificing individual freedoms for state
protections, etc)
Political Culture - answer✔✔A patterned and sustained way of thinking about how political and
economic life ought to be carried out.
Federalism - answer✔✔Government authority shared by national and local governments.
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