27 Amendments Matching Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A voter, rather than a state legislature, casts a ballot to choose a U.S. senator. Which amendment established this direct-election system?
Twelfth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Seventeenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
2. Which amendment instituted nationwide prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors?
Twentieth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
Twenty-First Amendment
3. A president has already been elected to the office twice. Which amendment generally prevents that person from being elected president again?
Twenty-Second Amendment
Twenty-First Amendment
Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Twentieth Amendment
4. Which amendment prohibits denying or abridging voting rights on account of sex?
Nineteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
5. Residents of Washington, D.C., participate in choosing the president through appointed electors. Which amendment authorized this?
Twenty-Third Amendment
Twentieth Amendment
Twenty-Second Amendment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
6. Which amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime after conviction?
Fourteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
7. A president becomes unable to perform the office's duties, raising questions about transferring powers to the vice president. Which amendment supplies the relevant procedures?
Twentieth Amendment
Twenty-Second Amendment
Twenty-Seventh Amendment
Twenty-Fifth Amendment
8. Police seek to search a home using a warrant that does not identify the place to be searched or the items sought. Which amendment contains the most directly relevant protection?
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Fourth Amendment
9. Which amendment defines national and state citizenship and prohibits states from denying due process or equal protection of the laws?
Thirteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Seventeenth Amendment
10. Which amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and ended national prohibition?
Eighteenth Amendment
Twentieth Amendment
Twenty-Second Amendment
Twenty-First Amendment
11. Which amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, the press, peaceful assembly, and petition?
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
12. A party in a federal common-law civil case invokes the constitutional right to a jury trial. Which amendment establishes that right?
Fifth Amendment
Seventh Amendment
Eighth Amendment
Sixth Amendment
13. Which amendment prohibits denying or abridging voting rights on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
Fourteenth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
14. A state attempts to prevent a 19-year-old citizen from voting solely because of age. Which amendment most directly bars that restriction?
Fifteenth Amendment
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
15. A state requires payment of a poll tax before someone may vote in a federal election. Which amendment most directly prohibits that requirement?
Nineteenth Amendment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
16. During peacetime, the government tries to require a homeowner to lodge soldiers without the homeowner's consent. Which amendment most directly addresses this situation?
Second Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Third Amendment
Fifth Amendment