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Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Declaration of Independence
Articles
Bill of Rights
Amendments 13-15
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This 1765 Act of Parliment pertained to printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
"Inalienable Rights"
What are "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"?
100
This preceded the US Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
The frist ___ Amendments to the Constitution.
What are ten.
100
These Constitutional Amendments resulted, in part, from ___ _____ ___?
What is The Civil War?
200
The Stamp Act of 1765 financed this war.
What is the French-Indian War.
200
"He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only." To respond to this situations, the colonist formed these bodies, the second of which is actually, truly the first in our nation's history.
What are the First and Second Continental Congress.
200
The number of Articles in the US Constitution.
What is seven?
200
"...nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in ________ of life or limb..."
What is jeopardy?
200
This Constitutional Amendment proscribed sufferage abridgement for reasons of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"?
What is Amendment XV?
300
Some in our nation's capitol are still fighting for this right, a slogan which harken's back to the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
300
"He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." This goes by another name, and was the primary reason for the War of 1812.
What is impressment?
300
This Article comes partially as a result of The Great Compromise.
What is Article I?
300
This Constitutional Amendment protects us against torture.
What is Amendment VIII?
300
According this Constitutional Amendment, a state could lose legislative representation without immigration from that state.
What is Amendment XIV?
400
These courts were loopholes around standards of high evidence and trial by jury used in the British colonies.
What are Admiralty Courts?
400
"For taking away our ________, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments" These are 18th-century business licences.
What are charters?
400
According to this Article and Section, 5 of these count as 3 votes, or 3 people tallied toward representation in the House of Representatives.
What is Article I, Section 2?
400
A jury of peers must indict you of a "capital, or otherwise infamous crime", unless that crime "arises" in this organization, or these situations.
What is the the military, war, and "public danger"?
400
This Constitutional Amendment applies the first eight Amendments, regarding Due Process, to the states.
What is Amendment XIV.
500
He has called together legislative bodies at...
What are "places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records"?
500
"For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us" This is prohibited by the _____ Amendment to the US Constitution.
What is the Third Amendment?
500
34 of these may propose and ratify a new Constitutional Amendment.
What are State Legislatures.
500
Under this Constitutional Amendment protects the individual from abuse of the other Amendments.
What is Amendment IX?
500
Constitutional Amendment XIII abolishes involuntary servitude, except under this condition?
What is punishment for crime?