Bill of Rights
BoR AND The Other 17
Civic Duty
Civic Responsibility
Miscellaneous
100
Which amendment allow the government to seize a person's property for the benefit of the public good?
What is the 5th amendment (eminent domain).
100
The 26th Amendment, which was ratified in 1971 accomplish what?
What is changing the voting age from 21 to 18.
100
True or False: To fulfill your civic duty you must know the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is FALSE
100
Responsibilities of Citizenship are a SHOULD or a MUST
What is SHOULD
100
The term double jeopardy means
What is trying someone for the same crime twice
200
What do you call your right to hold a peaceful meeting? Which amendment does it come from?
What is the right to assemble and the 1st amendment.
200
Which amendment gives U.S. citizens the right to bear arms?
What is the 2nd Amendment.
200
Who is responsible for registering for the draft?
Who are men aged 18 to 25.
200
According Ms. Knutson if you do NOT vote you…
What is don't have the right to complain.
200
How many representatives from each state are in the House of Representatives AND the Senate.
What is based on population and 2.
300
What 3 things does the 6th amendment provide?
What is the right to public trial, a speedy trial, and the right to a lawyer.
300
The 8th Amendment does what?
What is Provides the right to bail and protects against cruel and unusual punishment
300
Why does the government ask it’s citizens to make the sacrifice of jury duty?
What is In order for the US justice system can work for everybody
300
Which document is the ‘supreme law of the land’, which means everyone has to obey it?
What is the US Constitution.
300
Our nation’s capital city is...
What is Washington D.C.
400
Is telling someone to break the law protected under your first amendment right to freedom of speech?
What is NO! It endangers the public's safety.
400
This amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote in all federal, state, and local elections. In what year?
What is the 19th Amendment in 1920.
400
Who was our nation’s first president; he was unanimously elected president in 1789.
Who was George Washington
400
List 3 of the responsibilities of citizenship in the United States.
What is voting, being informed, taking part in government, respecting and protecting others rights, helping the community.
400
List the 2 houses that make up Congress.
What is Senate and HoR
500
The 5th amendment protects the accused person against what?
What is imprisonment without due process of law, self-incrimination, and double jeopardy
500
List ALL 5 of your freedoms guaranteed by the 1st amendment.
What is religion, speech, assembly, press, petition.
500
What is the difference between slander and libel?
What is slander is meant to intentionally damage somebody's reputation and libel and lying about someone in writing.
500
United States citizens live under these 3 levels of representative government.
What is local, state, and federal/national
500
List the 3 branches of the federal government.
What is leg, exc, jud
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