Bill of Rights
Which amendment is shown in the example below?
Your dad owns a gun for duck hunting.
What is 2nd Amendment?
Which part of speech modifies an adjective, verb, or an adverb?
What is adverb?
Which key concept of the constitution is described below?
The national government and the states share power.
What is Federalism?
This is the second step in the Scientific Method.
What is Research?
Who said "no taxation without representation"
Who is James Otis?
Which amendment states that in order to tried for a crime, there must be proof? This same amendment states that you also have the right to a fair trail and jury and that you cannot be tried for the same crime twic.
What is the 5th Amendment?
Which word does the italicized word modify in the sentence below?
Riley was the last dog to cross the finish line in the race.
What is dog?
This idea is also called democracy. Ancient Greeks invented democracy thousands of years ago.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This "energy" is the build up of an electrical charge on the surface of an object.
What is Static Electricity?
Which act is described below?
A series of laws passed in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following:
**CLUE: This act is named after someone
What is the Townsend Act?
Which amendment gives us freedom of rights beyond those listed in the constitution?
What is the 9th Amendment?
Identify the preposition in the sentence below.
The cereal was located in the cabinet above the stove.
What is "in" / "above"?
The Judicial branch is an example of this key concept.
What is Separation of Powers?
The nucleus of an atom is made up of which two atomic particles?
What is the neutrons and protons?
Which act is described below?
This was a tax put on the American colonies by the British in 1765.
It said they had to pay a tax on all sorts of printed materials such as newspapers, magazines and legal documents.
Colonies were supposed to buy paper from Britain that had an official "logo" on it that showed they had paid the tax.
What is the Stamp Act?
Which amendment is shown in the example below?
A school suspends a student for refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Identify the verb and the word it modifies in the sentence below.
The philanthropists donated millions of dollars to the charity.
This key concept originated from John Locke.
What is Individual Rights?
*Conductors and Insulators*
Fill in the blank for the two questions below:
Glass, paper, the air, are all examples of ________
Metal and copper are examples of ___________
What is Insulators (glass, paper, air) and Conductors (metal and copper)?
Which act is described below?
These were five laws that were passed by the British Parliament against the American Colonies in 1774.
These acts became a rallying cry for patriots in America. They felt these acts took away some of their basic freedoms. In many ways, these acts helped to unite the colonies and pushed them one step closer to revolution.
What is the Intolerable Acts?
Which amendment is shown in the example below?
A police officer stops your mom's car, asks everyone to get out and starts looking inside of it.
What is the 4th Amendment?
Identify the prepositional phrase. (identify both the preposition and the object of the preposition) *there's more than one
After several minutes we located the key for the back door.
What is "after" and "minutes" / "for" and "door"?
This key concept is also referred to as "Limited Government" and states that the Constitution is the highest set of laws, and no one is above the Constitution.
What is Rule of Law?
This is the change in an objects velocity, or speed.
What is Acceleration?
What is being described below?
This took place between the American colonies and New France. Both sides allied with various Native American tribes.
This war lasted from 1754 to 1763. British troops not only helped the colonists to fight the war, but were stationed in the colonies for protection after the war. These troops weren't free and Britain needed money to pay for the troops.
The British Parliament decided to tax the American colonies to help pay for the troops.
What is the French and Indian war?