Friday April 25th

[3Jessica]

• Amendment nineteen: Women’s right to vote

  • Womens suffrage rights: Be able to vote

  • 1920

• Amendment twenty: Moves the president inauguration date from March to January 20

  • Changes when it states and ends

  • Also known as Lame Duck

  • Important: Don’t have a lame duck pres for half a year until the new pres

• Amendment twenty-one: Prohibition ends 18th amendment

  • Alcohol is legal again

  • The 18th lasted 13 years

  • It failed

  • Important: Because people were breaking the law to drink it

• Amendment twenty-two: Limits the pres to only two 4 year terms in office

  • FDR had experience so they had him in for 4 terms

  • If people love him vote him again

  • He was like a king and that was not what we wanted

• Amendment twenty-three: Citizens of Washington, DC receives the right to vote

  • They have three electoral votes

• Amendment twenty-four: Ended poll taxes

  • You use to have to pay to vote

  • African Americans weren’t able to vote couldn’t pay

• Amendment twenty-five: The vp can take over the pres job if he is unable to fulfill his job

• Amendment twenty-six: 18 years or older can vote

  • They have a suffrage rights

  • 1971

• Amendment twenty-seventh: Congress can give themselves a pay raise, but they have to wait until after the next election before they get it