Bill of Rights
What is an amendment?
Change or addition to the terms of a contract, law, government regulatory filing, or other documents.
What group of people were taken to America and
sold as slaves?
Millions of Africans were taken to America and sold as slaves.
Name two national holidays?
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
Memorial Day
What is the supreme law of the land?
The Constitution
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
Ended slavery and created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African-Americans.
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights.
What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
Ended slavery and created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African-Americans
What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
The Civil Rights Movement
What does the Constitution do?
Defines the fundamental law of the U.S. federal government, setting forth the three principal branches of the federal government and outlining their jurisdictions
•When was the constitution written?
1787
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press.
Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
Slavery was one problem that led to the Civil War.
What did Martin Luther King Jr. Do?
He led a nonviolent campaign for racial justice during the civil rights movement
What is the rule of law?
A principal under which all persons, institutions and entities are accountable to the laws that are, Publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated.
The federalists papers supported the passage of the US Constitution. Name one of the writers.
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Maddison
What is freedom of religion?
The right to practice whatever religion one chooses.
Name one war fought by the United States in the
1800s
The Civil War was the biggest U.S. war in the 1800s.
What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech
What stops one branch of the government from becoming too powerful?
The Government has a system called checks and balances.
What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
He signed the U.S. Constitution
There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote.
The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave American women the right to vote.
15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, eliminated poll taxes. The tax had been used in some states to keep African Americans from voting in federal elections.
The 26th Amendment, ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age for all elections to 18.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
"That all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.”
What did Susan B. Anthony do?
A leader of Women’s Rights
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work.
What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
Rejected the articles of confederation altogether but they would produce the first written constitution for any nation in the history of the world.
How many amendments does the Constitution have?
27