Name the Amendment
This amendment protects your right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
This is the only Amendment that has been repealed (removed).
What is the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition)?
People who supported the Constitution were called these.
What are federalists?
Smaller states favored this plan, that proposed to base representation on every state getting the same number of representatives.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
George Washington's Vice President.
Who is John Adams?
This Amendment says that any power not specifically given to the federal government is the purview of the states.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This Amendment guarantees the right against unlawful search and seizure.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Official changes to the Constitution are called these.
What are amendments?
The branch of government that writes the laws is called this.
What is the legislative branch?
He was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This Amendment guarantees the right against self-incrimination.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This Amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
The sharing of power between the national government and state governments is called this.
What is federalism?
The US Constitution has this many Amendments.
What is 27?
When George Washington was still fighting for the British, he was captured by the French at this makeshift fort.
What is Fort Necessity?
This Amendment (passed after the American Civil War), made slavery illegal.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This Amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial and the right to a jury trial (often called due process of law).
What is the Sixth Amendment?
The president can check the power of the legislative branch by canceling a law using this.
What is a veto?
This clause allows the congress to use all powers "necessary and proper" to fulfill its duty.
What is the elastic clause?
This free black sailor was shot and killed at the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
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Name the five rights protected by the First Amendment.
What are the right to freedom of speech, the right to freedom of the press, the right to freedom of religion, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right of petition?
This determines how many representatives each state gets.
What is population?
This branch interprets the law.
What is the judicial branch?
The Proclamation of 1763 said that colonists could not settle west of this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?