No double jeopardy or no witness against yourself.
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Amendment 6
The right to a speedy and public trial.
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Amendment 7
The right to a jury trial in civil matters of $20 and over.
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Amendment 8
No excessive bail or cruel punishment.
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Amendment 9
People get rights not listed in Constitution.
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Amendment 10
Any rights not given to federal government are given to the states and people.
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Amendment 11
Individual cannot sue a state in a federal court.
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Amendment 12
Separate ballots for President and Vice President.
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Amendment 13
Abolish slavery.
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Amendment 14
If you are born or naturalized in the U.S. then you are a citizen of the U.S.
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Amendment 15
You cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed.
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Amendment 16
Income tax
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Amendment 17
Popular election of U.S. Senators.
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Amendment 18
Ban of alcohol prohibition
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Amendment 19
Women get the right to vote.
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Amendment 20
President takes office on January 20th instead of March 4th.
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Amendment 21
Repeal prohibition
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Amendment 22
President can only serve two terms.
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Amendment 23
Washington D.C. residents can vote for president.
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Amendment 24
Anti poll tax.
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Amendment 25
Lays down the rules for who becomes president if the president dies/resigns etc.
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Amendment 26
18 year olds get to vote.
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Amendment 27
Congress cannot accept a pay raise until next term.
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Tinker v. Des Moines
Supreme Court ruling- giving students' rights to free speech in public schools.
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Miranda V Arizona
the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination
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District of Columbia v. Heller
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia
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Marbury V. Madison
This Supreme Court Case Brought about the first Judicial Review
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Gideon V. Wainwright
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court established that the Fourteenth Amendment creates a right for criminal defendants who cannot pay for their own lawyers to have the state appoint attorneys on their behalf.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Segregation was not legal (separation is not equal)
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Hazel wood v. Kuhlmeir
The Supreme Court clarified some of the limits on First Amendment rights for public school students.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation said that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were free.
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Black Codes
These laws were passed to limit the rights of newly freed African Americans and to continue the white dominance that had existed under slavery.
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Servitude
Slavery or bondage of any kind
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Poll Tax
Poll taxes were requirements for voting.
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Sojourner Truth
a former slave who spoke out for the rights of African Americans and women
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Lucretia Mott
a Quaker and an abolitionist with considerable organizing and public speaking skills
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
an abolitionist who was a co-organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights; author of the Declaration of Sentiments; co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association
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women’s suffrage
the right of women to vote
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women’s right movement
an organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society
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Susan B. Anthony
a close ally of Stanton’s; co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association
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