Constitutional Amendments (16th-27th) Practice Questions
20 free Constitutional Amendments (16th-27th) practice questions for the US History, each with the correct answer and a detailed explanation. Open any question below, or take the full set as an interactive quiz.
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All Constitutional Amendments (16th-27th) questions
- Q1. What did the Sixteenth Amendment authorize Congress to do?
- Q2. Which amendment changed the selection of U.S. senators from election by state legislatures to direct election by voters?
- Q3. What was the main purpose of the Eighteenth Amendment?
- Q4. Which amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote?
- Q5. Why is the Twentieth Amendment sometimes called the 'Lame Duck Amendment'?
- Q6. Which amendment repealed national Prohibition?
- Q7. What did the Twenty-Second Amendment establish?
- Q8. What did the Twenty-Third Amendment grant to Washington, D.C.?
- Q9. Which amendment prohibited poll taxes in federal elections?
- Q10. What issue is addressed by the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?
- Q11. Which amendment lowered the voting age in federal and state elections to eighteen?
- Q12. What does the Twenty-Seventh Amendment regulate?
- Q13. Which pair of amendments is directly connected because one established national Prohibition and the other repealed it?
- Q14. Which amendment was most closely associated with the Progressive Era goal of making government more democratic?
- Q15. Which amendment is most directly connected to the women's suffrage movement?
- Q16. How did the Twenty-Fourth Amendment expand democratic participation?
- Q17. Which amendment explains how a vice president can become acting president if the president is unable to serve temporarily?
- Q18. Which amendment was adopted partly in response to Franklin D. Roosevelt's four presidential election victories?
- Q19. What is historically unusual about the Twenty-Seventh Amendment?
- Q20. Which amendment most directly responded to the slogan 'old enough to fight, old enough to vote'?