U.S. constitutional amendments
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U.S. constitutional amendments
Order these amendments by the year each was ratified. You place all 27 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
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How to play the constitutional amendments timeline
Each card is an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with a short line about what it does printed below. You're ordering them by the year each was ratified. One amendment starts on the timeline with its ratification year showing. For each new card, choose where it fits among those already placed. Correct gaps reveal the year; wrong ones still move the amendment to its true spot but cost one of your three lives.
The deck covers every amendment, from the original guarantees of rights through Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and the civil rights years. The number in each name follows the order of ratification, so this one rewards knowing your ordinals. Remember that the original rights arrived together as a single batch, and that a few later amendments were ratified in the same year.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 27 of the 27 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- First Amendment Protects speech, religion, press, and assembly
- Second Amendment Protects the right to bear arms
- Third Amendment Bars forced quartering of soldiers
- Fourth Amendment Bars unreasonable searches and seizures
- Fifth Amendment Guarantees due process and against self-incrimination
- Sixth Amendment Guarantees a speedy trial and counsel
- Seventh Amendment Guarantees a jury in civil cases
- Eighth Amendment Bars cruel and unusual punishment
- Ninth Amendment Reserves unlisted rights to the people
- Tenth Amendment Reserves undelegated powers to the states
- Eleventh Amendment Limits lawsuits against states
- Twelfth Amendment Separated electoral votes for president and vice president
- Thirteenth Amendment Abolished slavery
- Fourteenth Amendment Granted citizenship and equal protection
- Fifteenth Amendment Barred denying the vote by race
- Sixteenth Amendment Authorized a federal income tax
- Seventeenth Amendment Provided direct election of senators
- Eighteenth Amendment Imposed prohibition of alcohol
- Nineteenth Amendment Gave women the right to vote
- Twentieth Amendment Moved the inauguration and session dates
- Twenty-first Amendment Repealed prohibition
- Twenty-second Amendment Set a two-term limit on the presidency
- Twenty-third Amendment Gave electoral votes to the District of Columbia
- Twenty-fourth Amendment Abolished poll taxes in federal elections
- Twenty-fifth Amendment Set presidential succession and disability rules
- Twenty-sixth Amendment Lowered the voting age to eighteen
- Twenty-seventh Amendment Delayed congressional pay raises
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