Q 01/05

Which amendment, ratified in August 1920, stopped states from denying anyone the vote on the basis of sex?

A) The 15th

B) The 19th

C) The 24th

D) The 26th

Answer · why

B) The 19th

The 19th Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878 and took 42 years to win. The Senate, which voted it down in 1887, did not pass it until J...

Q 02/05

Which amendment, the only one ever repealed, banned the manufacture, sale and transport of intoxicating liquors?

A) The 15th

B) The 16th

C) The 17th

D) The 18th

Answer · why

D) The 18th

The 18th Amendment brought in nationwide Prohibition from January 1920 and lasted not quite fourteen years. It never outlawed possessing or drinking a...

Q 03/05

Which 2012 Steven Spielberg film dramatizes the fight in Congress to pass the amendment abolishing slavery?

A) Amistad

B) Glory

C) Lincoln

D) Harriet

Answer · why

C) Lincoln

Lincoln won Daniel Day-Lewis his third Best Actor Oscar and follows the president through January 1865 as he hunts for the last few votes in the House...

Q 04/05

Which state became the decisive 36th to ratify women's suffrage after a young legislator heeded his mother's letter?

A) Kentucky

B) Delaware

C) North Carolina

D) Tennessee

Answer · why

D) Tennessee

Tennessee tipped the balance when Harry Burn, elected at 22 as its youngest legislator, changed sides. A letter from his mother, Febb, asking him to v...

Q 05/05

Whose four presidential election wins led Congress to propose the amendment capping presidents at two terms?

A) Franklin Roosevelt

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer · why

A) Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt won in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944, breaking a two-term tradition set by the earliest presidents. Republicans who took control of Con...