Background
Name that Amendment
Civil Rights
Random History
Key Dates
100
The number of amendments accepted when the Bill of Rights was first adopted
What is ten?
100
This amendment guarantees freedom from conviction for a crime without a formal trial
What is the Fifth Amendment?
100
created in the early 1900's to gaurantee equality for people of color
NAACP
100
What counrty did America buy Louisiana from
France
100
Date Jamestown was founded
1607
200
This war was fought in efforts to create the Bill of Rights
What is the American Revolution?
200
This amendment guarantees the right to bear arms
What is the Second Amendment?
200
Created the non-violent Civil rights movement
Martin Luther King
200
This man became president in 1789 shortly before the Bill of Rights was passed, led union troops in war
George Washington?
200
1863
Emacipation Proclamation
300
Who was President during the Civil War?
Abe Lincoln
300
This amendment outlaws cruel and unusual punishments
What is the Eighth Amendment?
300
Teenage African-American boy that was lynched for saying "hey baby" to a white woman
Emmitt Till
300
What is the Bill of Rights?
1st ten amendments of Constitution
300
1861-1865
Civil War
400
The Bill of Rights guaranteed these two things
What are civil liberties and civil rights?
400
One right that the First Amendment guarantees
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, and freedom of assembly?
400
Mexican-American Civil rights leader that worked with Martin Luther King
Ceasar Chavez
400
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
400
1803
Louisiana Purchase
500
What are your unalienable rights?
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
500
This amendment forbids soldiers from taking residence in your home
What is the Third Amendment?
500
Who long did it take for African-Americans to gain full citizenship after the Civil War
100 years
500
No illegal search or siezure
4th Amendment
500
1776
Declaration of Independence
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