You've Got Rights - Civic Rights and Amendments

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, historical figures, and constitutional amendments related to the debate and creation of the Bill of Rights.

Constitutional Convention Delegates

A group of White males, averaging in their 40s, who were wealthy, well-educated, and held significant political power, with about half having enslaved humans in their lifetime.

Anti-Federalists

State leaders who feared a strong central government and threatened to block the approval of the Constitution unless a list of individual rights was added.

Federalists

A group that insisted the Constitution alone was enough to protect rights, warning that listing rights was impossible and could allow the government to violate unlisted rights.

Bill of Rights

The compromise reached between Federalists and Anti-Federalists consisting of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Amendments

Changes made to the Constitution.

Three Main Categories of Rights

Individual freedoms, protections against government abuse and power, and rights of people accused of crimes.

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

Amendments passed after the Civil War that ended slavery and promised rights to formerly enslaved people.

19th and 26th Amendments

Amendments that ensured the right to vote for women (19th Amendment) and citizens as young as eighteen (26th Amendment).

Suffrage

The right to vote.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

An activist who protested and wrote about the need for Black and white women to work together to achieve suffrage.