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The first 10 Amendments of the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
The oldest member of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
True or False The Constitution was written in 1776.
What is False? (Written in 1787)
100
The Constitution is known as...
What is the Supreme Law of the Land?
100
This city was the host of the Constitutional Convention.
What is Philadelphia?
200
The Amendment that gives us the rights to freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, and to petition the government.
What is the First Amendment?
200
Presided over the Constitution Convention.
Who is George Washington?
200
True or False: The Constitution DOES NOT include the phrase "All Men Created Equal."
What is True? ("All Men Created Equal" - Declaration of Independence - 2nd Paragraph)
200
The branch of government that reviews & explains laws, resolves disputes, and decides if a law goes against the constitution.
What is Judicial Branch?
200
The document that preceded the Constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
300
The only amendment to be repealed.
What is 18th Amendment?
300
Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
300
True or False: The word "God" DOES NOT appear in the Constitution.
What is True?
300
Stops one branch of the government from becoming too powerful?
What is checks and balances, separation of powers?
300
The first to sign the Constitution.
Who is George Washington?
400
Number of Amendments in the Constitution.
What is 27?
400
This was the most common profession of the Constitutional Convention members.
What is Lawyer?
400
True or False: Thomas Jefferson signed the Constitution.
What is False? (In 1787, Thomas Jefferson was in Paris & missed the Constitutional Convention)
400
The amount of years in a US Senators term.
What is 6 years?
400
This First Nations Group was the inspiration for the creation of the Constitution
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
500
This amendment states that the government cannot deprive you of “life, liberty, or property” without “due process of law”
What is the Fifth Amendment?
500
Percent of Founding Fathers who owned slaves.
What is 50 percent?
500
True or False: There are 39 signatures on the Constitution.
What is False? (40 signature – Secretary William Jackson also Signed the Constitution = 40 Signatures)
500
Powers belonging to the Federal Government under the Constitution (Name 1)
What is the power to print money, to declare war, to create an army, and/or to make treaties?
500
The last state to ratify the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
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