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 * Amendments 1 - 10: Bill of Rights** (Ratified on 12/15/1791)


 * Amendment 1**: Rights of freedom of religion (prohibits establishment of one religion over another by law, practicing religion freely), freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of press.


 * Amendment 2**: Right to possess arms.


 * Amendment 3**: Quartering of soldiers prohibited during peacetime. Soldiers should be quartered at a civilian home only with the owners permission.


 * Amendment 4**: Freedom from seizure of property, arrests and searches without a specific warrant.


 * Amendment 5**: Prohibits trial for a crime except on indictment of a Grand Jury and double jeopardy, prohibits punishment without legal procedures and taking away of private property without adequate compensation.


 * Amendment 6**: Right to a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury, to confront the witnesses against the accused and to have a legal attorney in defense of the accused.


 * Amendment 7**: Right to trial by a jury in civil cases.


 * Amendment 8**: Prohibits imposing cruel, unusual punishments and fines, prohibits granting excessive bails.


 * Amendment 9**: Assures the recognition of those rights that people may have but are not listed here.


 * Amendment 10**: Provides that the powers that are not given to the United States nor prohibited by the constitution are reserved to the states respectively or to the people.


 * Amendments 11 - 27**


 * Amendment 11**: Clearly states the judicial powers of the US states and the federal government on foreign nationals and the limitations of the citizens to sue states under federal law. Ratified on 2/7/1795.


 * Amendment 12**: Specifies the procedure for electing the president and the vice-president of the US separately by ballot votes. Ratified on 6/15/1804.


 * Amendment 13**: Establishes the abolishment of slavery from the US and all the places that fall under its jurisdiction. Ratified on 12/6/1865.


 * Amendment 14**: Broadly defines the parameters of the US citizenship, prohibits the states from reducing or diminishing the privileges of citizens and emphasizes their 'right to due process and the equal protection of the law'. Ratified on 7/9/1868.


 * Amendment 15**: The citizens' right to vote shall not be denied by the states or the federal government on the basis of race, color or previous status of servitude. Ratified on 2/3/1870.


 * Amendment 16**: Authorizes the federal government to collect taxes on income without apportionment. Ratified on 2/3/1913.


 * Amendment 17**: Establishes the direct election of the senators to the United States Senate. Ratified on 4/8/1913.


 * Amendment 18**: Prohibits the manufacture, sale, transportation, import or export of intoxicating beverages within the US and all the territories falling under its jurisdiction. Ratified on 1/16/1919.


 * Amendment 19**: Establishes that the citizens' right to vote shall not be denied on the basis of their gender or sex. Ratified on 8/18/1920.


 * Amendment 20**: States in detail the terms of office that the President, the Vice-President, the Senators and the Representatives shall hold. Ratified on 1/23/1933.


 * Amendment 21**: Repeals the 18th Amendment. Prohibits the importation of intoxicating beverages. Ratified on 12/5/1933.


 * Amendment 22**: Establishes that the Presidential term is limited to two years and a person shall be elected to the presidential office only once. Ratified on 2/27/1951.


 * Amendment 23**: Allows the representation of the District of Columbia in the Presidential elections. Ratified on 3/29/1961.


 * Amendment 24**: Prohibits the non-payment of poll tax or other tax as a basis of denial of the right to vote. Ratified on 1/23/1964.


 * Amendment 25**: The Vice President shall become President in case the President is removed from office or in case of his death. Ratified on 2/10/1967.


 * Amendment 26**: Prohibits the federal government or the state from denying any citizen who is 18 years or above, the right to vote. Ratified on 7/1/1971.


 * Amendment 27**: Establishes that any law that increases or decreases the Congressional pay shall not be put to effect until the next term of office of the representatives begins. Ratified on 5/7/1992.

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There are some other sources such as [] that explain these somewhat more in-depth but this was easier to use as a simple list. Charlie

Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States
George Clinton || [|Democratic-Republican] || 1801-1809 || Elbridge Gerry || Democratic-Republican || 1809-1817 || Martin Van Buren || [|Democratic] || 1829-1837 ||
 * ~ **PRESIDENT** ||~ VICE-PRESIDENT ||~ POLITICAL PARTY ||~ TERM ||
 * [|George Washington] || John Adams || No Party Designation || 1789-1797 ||
 * [|John Adams] || Thomas Jefferson || [|Federalist] || 1797-1801 ||
 * [|Thomas Jefferson] || Aaron Burr
 * [|James Madison] || George Clinton
 * [|James Monroe] || Daniel D Tompkins || Democratic-Republican || 1817-1825 ||
 * [|John Quincy Adams] || John C Calhoun || Democratic-Republican || 1825-1829 ||
 * [|Andrew Jackson] || John C Calhoun
 * [|Martin Van Buren] || Richard M. Johnson || Democratic || 1837-1841 ||
 * [|William Henry Harrison] || John Tyler || [|Whig] || 1841 ||
 * [|John Tyler] || None || Whig || 1841-1845 ||
 * [|James Knox Polk] || George M Dallas || Democratic || 1845-1849 ||
 * [|Zachary Taylor] || Millard Fillmore || Whig || 1849-1850 ||
 * [|Millard Fillmore] || None || Whig || 1850-1853 ||
 * [|Franklin Pierce] || William R King || Democratic || 1853-1857 ||
 * [|James Buchanan] || John C Breckinridge || Democratic || 1857-186 ||

Andrew Johnson || Whig; Republican || 1861-1865 || Henry Wilson || [|Republican] || 1869-1877 || Theodore Roosevelt || Republican || 1897-1901 || Henry A. Wallace Harry S. Truman || Democratic || 1933-1945 || Gerald Rudolph Ford || Republican || 1969-1974 || http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartpresidents.htm
 * [|Abraham Lincoln] || Hannibel Hamlin
 * [|Andrew Johnson] || None || Democratic; Unionist || 1865-1869 ||
 * [|Ulysses Simpson Grant] || Schuyler Colfax
 * [|Rutherford Birchard Hayes] || William A Wheeler || Republican || 1877-1881 ||
 * [|James Abram Garfield] || Chester Alan Arthur || Republican || 1881 ||
 * [|Chester Alan Arthur] || None || Republican || 1881-1885 ||
 * [|Stephen Grover Cleveland] || Thomas Hendricks || Democratic || 1885-1889 ||
 * [|Benjamin Harrison] || Levi P Morton || Republican || 1889-1893 ||
 * [|Stephen Grover Cleveland] || Adlai E Stevenson || Democratic || 1893-1897 ||
 * [|William McKinley] || Garret A. Hobart
 * [|Theodore Roosevelt] || Charles W Fairbanks || Republican || 1901-1909 ||
 * [|William Howard Taft] || James S Sherman || Republican || 1909-1913 ||
 * [|Woodrow Wilson] || Thomas R Marshall || Democratic || 1913-1921 ||
 * [|Warren Gamaliel Harding] || Calvin Coolidge || Republican || 1921-1923 ||
 * [|Calvin Coolidge] || Charles G Dawes || Republican || 1923-1929 ||
 * [|Herbert Clark Hoover] || Charles Curtis || Republican || 1929-1933 ||
 * [|Franklin Delano Roosevelt] || John Nance Garner
 * [|Harry S. Truman] || Alben W Barkley || Democratic || 1945-1953 ||
 * [|Dwight David Eisenhower] || Richard Milhous Nixon || Republican || 1953-1961 ||
 * [|John Fitzgerald Kennedy] || Lyndon Baines Johnson || Democratic || 1961-1963 ||
 * [|Lyndon Baines Johnson] || Hubert Horatio Humphrey || Democratic || 1963-1969 ||
 * [|Richard Milhous Nixon] || Spiro T. Agnew
 * [|Gerald Rudolph Ford] || Nelson Rockefeller || Republican || 1974-1977 ||
 * [|James Earl Carter, Jr.] || Walter Mondale || Democratic || 1977-1981 ||
 * [|Ronald Wilson Reagan] || George Herbert Walker Bush || Republican || 1981-1989 ||
 * [|George Herbert Walker Bush] || J. Danforth Quayle || Republican || 1989-1993 ||
 * [|William Jefferson Clinton] || Albert Gore, Jr. || Democratic || 1993-2001 ||
 * [|George Walker Bush] || Richard Cheney || Republican || 2001-2009 ||
 * [|Barack Obama] || Joe Biden || Democratic || 2009- ||

--Perry


 * The list of European countries part of the EU and when they joined:** (Click on the Countries to learn more about them.)

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A Playlist about World History by CrashCourse, their channel is [|here], they have other things then just History media type="youtube" key="videoseries?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9" height="315" width="560" ~Hugh Lugg

[|World Atlas]

Map of Seas in Europe and North Africa:

Map of Mountain Ranges in Europe:

=A unmarked grave was dug up in England under an English Church the body is known to be the body of King Alfred the Great, a 9th century monarch who was credited with fending off the vikings.=