By the Numbers
History of the Bill of Rights
People Involved
Supreme Court Cases
Miscellaneous
100
The right to protect your home and belongings from unreasonable searches and seizures is found in the _____ amendment.
What is the fourth?
100
The Bill of Rights is found in this document.
What is the Constitution?
100
The father of the Constitution and Bill of Rights became our ___ president.
Who is the 4th?
100
Students wore ___________ to protest the Vietnam War in their schools which got them suspended. The Supreme Court said the school was wrong.
What are black armbands?
100
The amendment that guarantees citizens freedom of religion and the freedom of speech.
What is the first?
200
The year the Bill of Rights was created and the year it was ratified/approved.
When is 1789 and 1791?
200
James Madison's home state made the Bill of Rights official when it was ratified. What state was that?
What is Virginia?
200
A Union infantryman stole the _______________________ copy of the Bill or Rights from the state archives. How much did he sell it for? (bonus: 100 points)
Where is North Carolina? What is $5?
200
A High School _________________ led a prayer before ___________________. The Supreme Court said that was OK.
Who is a football coach? What is a football game?
200
Where the original Federal government copy of the Bill of Rights is today. (building and city)
Where is the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington D.C.?
300
How many original handwritten copies were there of the document? How many remain today?
What is 14 and 12?
300
The amendment that has never been challenged in a court of law.
What is the fourth?
300
The main author of the Bill of Rights.
Who was James Madison?
300
People with felonies who cannot pay for a lawyer are given one for free. The Supreme Court used this amendment to determine this.
What is the 6th amendment?
300
The two amendments that were never ratified when the original Bill of Rights was ratified.
What is the 1st and 2nd?
400
The Bill of Rights did not apply to all people in our country until how many years after it was ratified?
What is 130?
400
The three states did not ratify the Bill of Rights until 1939.
Where are Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Georgia?
400
The political party that did not want to pass the Constitution without having a Bill of Rights was...
Who are Anti-Federalists?
400
A protester is allowed to burn the American flag because of the First Amendment. The flag was burned to protest which president's policies?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
400
The 9th Amendment guarantees that citizens...
What are other rights that are not specifically stated in the Bill of Rights?
500
The original 2nd amendment wasn't ratified right away and was later passed as the 27th amendment. How long did that process take?
What is 203 years?
500
The building where the Bill of Rights was introduced. Building name and state.
Where is Federal Hall in New York City?
500
Who wrote the Federalist Papers that helped to get the Constitution passed?
Who is Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
500
It was determined that public schools can censor free speech if it is considered harmful to the environment of the school. In the Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeier Supreme Court case, what did students do that led to the challenge at the Supreme Court?
What is they wrote about divorce and teen pregnancy in a school newspaper?
500
Double jeopardy (not being charged with the same crime twice), self-incrimination (providing information to expose your involvement in a crime), and due process (fair rules and procedures in a courtroom) are all parts of the _____ amendment.
What is the fifth?