1st Amendment
This freedom allows you to express your opinions publicly out loud without government interference.
What is freedom of speech.
This key document outlines the first ten amendments to the Constitution, ensuring individual rights and liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This system ensures that no branch becomes too powerful by allowing each to limit the powers of the others.
What is checks and balances?
This is the current capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This First Amendment right lets you follow any religion—or none at all.
What is freedom of religion?
As of today, this is the total number of amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
This Founding Father was president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and the first President of the United States.
Who was George Washington.
This principle asserts that government power comes from the people, and the government is accountable to them.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is the date the Declaration of Indenpendence was sgined. Wecommemorate this date annually with cook-outs and fireworks.
What is July 4, 1776
The First Amendment protects this right, which allows journalists to publish news without government control.
What is freedom of the press?
This is the year the U.S. Constitution was written.
What is 1787?
What is the Senate (100 members) and the House of Representatives (435 memebers).
This part of the Constitution allows for changes to the document through an official amendment process.
What is the amendment process?
This flag, consisting of 13 stripes and 50 stars, represents the U.S. government and its states.
What is the American flag?
This right gives you the ability to gather with others peacefully to express your views.
What is the right to assembly?
How long did it take the delegates at the Constitutional Convention to write the Consitution?
What is 4 months?
This is the highest court in the U.S.
These consist of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
What are the branches of U.S. government?
This right to vote for their leaders and participate in the electoral process is granted at this age.
What is 18.
This right lets citizens ask the government to correct a wrong or improve a situation without fear of punishment.
What is the right to petition the government?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention resolved disputes between large and small states by creating a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
(Also acceptable: What is the Connecticut Compromise?)
This person signs or vetos bills passed by Congress.
Who is the President.
This document is the supreme law of the land.
The Constitution.
This right guarantees that citizens can vote for their leaders and participate in the electoral process.
What is Independence Hall?