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  1. 2. amendment the right of 18 years old to vote.
  2. 4. amendment gives Congress the power to collect taxes on income without apportioning it among the states.
  3. 5. papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written (under the pseudonym Publius) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.
  4. 8. of Rights the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
  5. 9. Bill of Rights a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession.
  6. 11. of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I.
  7. 12. amendment gave women the right to vote.
  8. 13. Doctrine First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.
  9. 15. amendment Provided direct election of senators.
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  1. 1. points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
  2. 2. amendment ended poll taxes.
  3. 3. of Independence the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
  4. 4. amendment defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
  5. 6. of Confederation the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  6. 7. Carta a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.
  7. 10. amendment bolished slavery in the United States.
  8. 12. amendment Constitution granted African American men the right to vote.
  9. 14. Constitution A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed.