Name: Cole Williams

CORNELL NOTES
Class: 6 Topic: Government
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Questions / Main Ideas Notes / Details / Definitions / etc.
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Voting Amendments 12 electoral college
15th regardless of race
17th direct election of Senators by the people
19th Women could vote
23rd people in D.C could vote for president
24th no poll taxes
26th 18 year olds can vote

Amendment Categories 9th other rights

Continued 10th powers given to states
11th limits power of federal courts over states
Reconstruction 13th slavery abolished
Amendments 14th the rights of citizens born in the country
15th men can vote regardless of race
Governement Structure 20th shortened time between election and inauguration of president
22nd Presidents can serve two full terms
25th how to fill the vice presidency if the president dies in office
27th Congress Salaries can’t increase until after the next election
Other Amendments 18th prohibits sale of alcohol manufacturing, and distribution of alcohol
21st Alcohol is legal
16th U.S can have an income tax

Themes I see in the

information
Amendments that hold laws that are necessary

Other Questions I may Why was alcohol illegal?

have about the Why was Congress Salaries amendment pushed back?
information (Required)
Please list three things Congress Salaries was pushed back until the 90s
you learned today Women weren’t allowed to vote until the 1910s
(Required) There was a period where alcohol was illegal

Please explain how one I’ll be allowed to vote in about a year

thing you learned today Without these amendments, I wouldn’t have my rights put in place either, because
relates to you. BE the U.S tries to be a free country but we have most of the rights.
SPECIFIC!!!!

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