US US Citizenship – Constitutional Amendments 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Seventeenth Amendment
- Nineteenth Amendment (Correct answer)
- Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Correct answer: Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote in the United States.
Question 2: Which amendment lowered the voting age to 18?
- Twenty-First Amendment
- Twenty-Fourth Amendment
- Twenty-Fifth Amendment
- Twenty-Sixth Amendment (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Twenty-Sixth Amendment
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment, ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, largely in response to arguments about the Vietnam War draft.
Question 3: Which amendment repealed Prohibition and the national ban on alcohol?
- Eighteenth Amendment
- Twenty-First Amendment (Correct answer)
- Twenty-Second Amendment
- Twenty-Third Amendment
Correct answer: Twenty-First Amendment
The Twenty-First Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and ended Prohibition in the United States.
Question 4: What did the Seventeenth Amendment change about the U.S. Senate?
- Gave women the right to vote
- Established a federal income tax
- Changed election of senators to direct popular vote (Correct answer)
- Limited presidential terms
Correct answer: Changed election of senators to direct popular vote
The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, established the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote instead of by state legislatures.
Question 5: What did the Twenty-Second Amendment establish?
- The right to vote regardless of poll taxes
- Presidential term limits of a maximum of two terms (Correct answer)
- Voting rights for 18-year-olds
- Presidential succession rules
Correct answer: Presidential term limits of a maximum of two terms
The Twenty-Second Amendment, ratified in 1951, limits a president to serving a maximum of two elected terms in office.
Question 6: What did the Sixteenth Amendment authorize the federal government to do?
- Directly elect senators
- Levy a federal income tax (Correct answer)
- Prohibit alcohol
- Grant women the right to vote
Correct answer: Levy a federal income tax
The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, gave Congress the power to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.
US US Citizenship – Constitutional Amendments 2
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?