Constitution
The first ten amendments of the US Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The right to remain silent is implied in this amendment of the Constitution.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Arizona was once a part of this country.
What is Mexico?
The ancestors of Native Americans migrated originally from this continent.
What is Asia?
The First complete set of written laws.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This amendment contains the rights of free expression including speech.
What is the First Amendment?
The traditional number of people who serve on a jury.
What is twelve?
This agreement signed in 1848 led to the annexation of Mexico's northern territory.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
The first permanent British colony in what is now the US.
What is Jamestown?
The name given to the Medieval European social hierarchy.
What is feudalism?
This Article of the Constitution describes the powers and duties of the president.
What is Article Two?
This amendment grants people protection from "cruel and unusual punishment."
What is the Eighth Amendment?
What is Russia?
The ancestors of Native Americans crossed over this land bridge into the Americas.
What is the Bering Strait?
The term given to the rights accorded to people accused of a crime.
What is due process?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable search and seizure by government authorities.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This term refers to people being put on trial for the same crime after being found innocent previously.
What is double jeopardy?
This US president was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Jefferson?
The first major wave of Immigrants came from this part of Europe.
What is the North/Northern Europe?
What is the caste system?
This Article gives the Supreme Court powers of judicial review.
What is Article Three?
This amendment guarantees the right to a public trial and having a lawyer.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This was the belief that drove the US to expand its borders in the 1800s.
What is Manifest Destiny?
By the late 1800s, Immigrants mostly came from these two parts of Europe.
What is the South and East (Southern and Eastern)
Based on the Quran, Hadith and Sunnah, this is the basis of law in many Islamic nations.
What is Sharia (law)?