The Amendments

Bill of Rights: 1st Amendment (1791)

Freedoms of:

• speech

• assembly

• petition

• press

• religion

Bill of Rights: Ninth Amendment (1791)

Unenumerated Rights to the People

Bill of Rights: 10th Amendment (1791)

Unenumerated Rights to the States

Bill of Rights: Second Amendment (1791)

Right to bear arms

Bill of Rights: Third Amendment (1791)

Freedom FROM:

quartering troops

Bill of Rights: Fourth Amendment (1791)

Freedoms FROM:

unreasonable search and seizure

Bill of Rights: Fifth Amendment (1791)

Freedoms of:

• Eminent Domain

• Double Jeopardy 

• Self-Incrimination

• Right to a Grand Jury

• Due Process

Bill of Rights: Sixth Amendment (1791)

The Right To:

• a speedy and public trial in all criminal cases

• trial by jury in all criminal cases

• counsel

Bill of Rights: Seventh Amendment (1791)

Right to:

Trial by jury in all civil cases

Bill of Rights: Eighth Amendment (1791)

Freedom FROM:

cruel and unusual punishment

Reconstruction Era: 13th Amendment (1865)

abolishes slavery

Reconstruction Era: 14th Amendment (1865)

• natural born citizenship

• due process in the states

Reconstruction Era: 15th Amendment (1870)

African American men’s suffrage

Progressive Era: 16th Amendment (1913)

federal income tax

Progressive Era: 17th Amendment (1913)

direct election of senators

Progressive Era: 18th Amendment (1919)

the prohibition (no manufacturing, sale, or transport of alcohol)

Progressive Era: 19th Amendment (1920)

women’s suffrage

Executive Era: 12th Amendment (1804)

separate balloting for the President and Vice President 

Executive Era: 20th amendment (1933)

The terms of the President and the VP shall end at noon on the 20th of January.

Executive Era: 22nd Amendment (1951)

Presidential Term Limit set at 2 terms 

Executive Era: 23rd Amendment (1961)

District of Columbia gets three Electoral College votes 

Executive Era: 25th Amendment (1967)

Presidential Succession and Disability 

Voting Era: 24th Amendment (1964)

Banning of all poll taxes in federal elections

voting Era: 26th Amendment (1971)

18 year olds get the right to vote 

Oddball Era: 11th Amendment (1795)

Protects the states against lawsuits in federal courts by citizens of other states or a foreign nation. 

oddball Era: 21st Amendment (1933)

Repeals the 18th Amendment- Prohibition is no longer 

oddball era: 27th amendment (1992)

Prevents members of a sitting Congress from voting themselves a pay raise.