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Six $Big$Ideas$in$the $Constitution
Activity 4: Analyzing Primary Sources to Relate$ the$ Six$ Big Ideas to History
Answer Key
These are suggested answers. Additional matches could be correct. The strength of an answer
depends&on& the evidence cited by the students to support& it.
Senate Revisions to House Proposed Amendments to the
U.S. Constitution, 09/09/1789
Act& of August& 6, 1965 (Voting Rights Act& of 1965), which
enforced the 15th amendment& to the Constitution,
08/06/1965
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, as Introduced, S.J. Res. 189,
08/04/1964
Selection from President& Andrew Jackson's Veto of the
Bank Recharter Bill, 07/10/1832
Henry Clay's Resolutions on the Removal of Deposits
from the Bank of the United States, 12/23/1833
Letter from Mrs. E. Jackson in Favor of the Voting Rights
Act& of 1965, 03/08/1964
Senate joint& resolution declaring admission of Missouri
into the Union, 02/26/1821
Joint& Resolution Proposing the Twenty-First& Amendment&
to the United States Constitution, 12/5/1932
Certified Copies of the Official Correspondence by and
between His Excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, and the
Hon. John Sparks, Governor of Nevada, 12/1907&
Attempted Override of President& Richard Nixon's Veto of
S. 518, an Act& to Abolish the Offices of the Director and
Deputy Director of the Office of Management& and
Budget, 5/1973
Petition to Congress from Susan B. Anthony, Matilda&
Joselyn &Gage, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ca. 01/1873
Joint& Resolution Proposing the Seventeenth Amendment&
to the United States Constitution, 05/13/1912&
Petition from the Union Fire Company in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania& in Support& of the Crittenden Compromise,&
ca. 1861
Map of the United States Including Western Territories,&
12/1848
Tally of the 1824 Electoral College Vote,& 02/09/1824
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