Bill of Rights
Word of the Day
Amendments
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
100
The right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd amendment?
100
Means the beginning.
What is genesis?
100
This amendment freed the slaves.
What is the 13th amendment?
100
This was established by the Articles of Confederation.
What is a weak central government?
100
Prevents any one of the three branches from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
200
You cannot be tried for the same exact crime twice.
What is double-jeopardy?
200
Area of legal authority.
What is jurisdiction?
200
Grants 18 year olds the right to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
200
Becomes worthless if it isn't backed by gold or silver.
What is paper money?
200
Thomas Jefferson called the distinguished leaders of the convention this.
What are demigods?
300
Permission given to police to search you.
What is consent?
300
Means produced by water.
What is hydrogen?
300
The only amendment that deals with the judiciary branch.
What is the 11th amendment?
300
The only branch of government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Continental Congress?
300
The most influential nationalist.
Who is James Madison?
400
All rights given to citizens not specifically listed in the Bill of Rights.
What is the 9th Amendment?
400
Scared to death.
What is mortified?
400
Instituted the prohibition.
What is the 18th amendment?
400
Started when the government of Massachusetts decided to raise taxes.
What is Shay's rebellion?
400
Declared the success of the Philadelphia Convention to be "little short of a miracle."
Who is George Washington?
500
Government cannot take your property without compensating you first.
What is the 5th amendment?
500
Knowledge of the law.
What is jurisprudence?
500
Protects against excessive fines and bail.
What is the 8th amendment?
500
The British occupied these south of the Great lakes.
What are frontier posts?
500
Occurred, "for the sole purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation."
What is the Constitutional Convention?
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