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Midterm Review
ACTS, AMENDMENTS
Amendments:
1. Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition.
2. Right to keep, bear arms.
3. No lodging troops in private homes.
4. No unlawful search or seizures.
5. Criminal proceedings – Guarantees Due Process of Law. No Double Jeopardy. No self-crimination.
6. Criminal Proceedings – Right to speedy and fair trial. Must inform defendant of charges. Right to attorney and fair impartial jury.
7. Trial by Jury in Civil cases where value exceeds $20.
8. No excessive bail or fines. No cruel or unusual punishment.
9. Not all rights are listed. (All individual rights are not listed in the Constitution).
10. Powers reserved to the states. (Limits the Federal Government).
11. Suits against states.
12. Requires separate Electoral ballots for President and Vice President.
13. Abolished slavery.
14. Grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”. Forbade any state to deny any person “life, liberty or property”, without due process of law”. Cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws.”
15. Cannot deny right to vote based on race, color, and servitude.
16. Congress can tax income directly.
17. Popular election of Senators.
18. Prohibition of alcohol.
Sugar Act: There was a strong enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources to reduce smuggling. Grant monopoly on the American market to the West Indies sugar planters.
Currency Act: Parliament assumed control of the colonial currency system. It banned the issue of any new bills and the re-issue of existing currency. Parliament preferred “hard currency”. Sterling.
Stamp Act: Revenue stamps were attached to printed matter and legal documents, newspaper, and insurance papers, etc. “No taxation without representation.” Public protests increased.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Molasses Act: A British law that imposed
ACTS, AMENDMENTS
Amendments:
1. Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition.
2. Right to keep, bear arms.
3. No lodging troops in private homes.
4. No unlawful search or seizures.
5. Criminal proceedings – Guarantees Due Process of Law. No Double Jeopardy. No self-crimination.
6. Criminal Proceedings – Right to speedy and fair trial. Must inform defendant of charges. Right to attorney and fair impartial jury.
7. Trial by Jury in Civil cases where value exceeds $20.
8. No excessive bail or fines. No cruel or unusual punishment.
9. Not all rights are listed. (All individual rights are not listed in the Constitution).
10. Powers reserved to the states. (Limits the Federal Government).
11. Suits against states.
12. Requires separate Electoral ballots for President and Vice President.
13. Abolished slavery.
14. Grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”. Forbade any state to deny any person “life, liberty or property”, without due process of law”. Cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws.”
15. Cannot deny right to vote based on race, color, and servitude.
16. Congress can tax income directly.
17. Popular election of Senators.
18. Prohibition of alcohol.
Sugar Act: There was a strong enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources to reduce smuggling. Grant monopoly on the American market to the West Indies sugar planters.
Currency Act: Parliament assumed control of the colonial currency system. It banned the issue of any new bills and the re-issue of existing currency. Parliament preferred “hard currency”. Sterling.
Stamp Act: Revenue stamps were attached to printed matter and legal documents, newspaper, and insurance papers, etc. “No taxation without representation.” Public protests increased.
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Molasses Act: A British law that imposed