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Preamble
100
What year was the U.S. Constitution written?
What is 1787?
100
How many delegates were at the Constitutional Convention?
What is 55?
100
How many Amendments are included in the Bill of Rights?
What is 10?
100
True or false: the U.S. Constitution the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world.
What is true?
100
How many words are in the Preamble?
What is 52?
200
In what city was the Constitutional Convention held?
What is Philadelphia?
200
Who is the "Father of the Constitution"?
Who is James Madison?
200
How many Amendments are there?
What is 27?
200
Where is the U.S. Constitution currently displayed?
What is the National Archives Building in Washington, DC?
200
Fill in the missing word: We ______ people.
What is "the"?
300
Before the U.S. Constitution, what was the United States operating under?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
Who was the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention?
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th?
300
This is the longest article of the Constitution and gives the outline for the legislative branch.
What is Article I?
300
True or False: The first time the formal term “The United States of America” was used was in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
What is false? (The first time the formal term “The United States of America” was used was in the Declaration of Independence.)
400
What state did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention?
What is Rhode Island?
400
Which two delegates would later become President of the United States?
Who are Washington and Madison?
400
Minus its first clause, this amendment is engraved on the headquarters of the National Rifle Association.
What is the Second Amendment? ("the right to keep and bear arms")
400
The only provision in the Constitution to be made permanently unamendable.
What is the guarantee that each state will have an equal number of votes in the Senate?
400
Who is credited with writing the majority (if not all) of the Preamble?
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
500
What was the last state to ratify the Constitution?
What is Rhode Island?
500
What delegate was later killed in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
The only currently effective amendment to regulate private, not just governmental, conduct.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment (abolishing slavery)?
500
True or false: “Pensylvania” above the signers’ names is probably the most glaring spelling error in the U.S. Constitution.
What is true?
500
Recite the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
What is "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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