This amendment protects people's rights to own certain kinds of guns.
What is the 2nd amendment
100
The first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution were called__________.
What is The Bill of Rights
100
The United States paid 12 million dollars to France to acquire this territory.
What is the Louisiana Territory
100
A group of citizens who decide the outcome of a trial.
What is a jury
200
This amendment protects the freedoms of speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly
What is the 1st amendment
200
Changes to the Constitution are called___________.
What is amendments
200
Several years after gaining independence from Mexico, this area was admitted to the United States.
What is Texas
200
The geographic line between two places, such as two countries
What is a boundary
300
This amendment protects citizens against unreasonable search and seizure.
What is the 4th amendment
300
What are the three branches of government?
What is the legislative, judicial, and executive braches
300
The U.S. Army invaded this territory, and later the U.S. government acquired it by paying off $5 million of claims against Spain.
What is Florida
300
The act of giving up territory, usually as the result of a treaty
What is a cession
400
This amendment protects people from being put on trial twice for the same crime (double jeapardy). It also protects people from being forced to be witnesses against themselves.
What is the 5th amendment
400
The Bill of Rights ensures that people suspected of crimes have basic rights, such as the right to a lawyer. These are known as____________
What is rights of the accused
400
The United States and Britain agreed on a boundary that divided this territory and gave the southern part of it to the United States.
What is Oregon Country
400
An area of land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans to live on
What is a reservation
500
This amendment protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment when they break the law.
What is the 8th amendment.
500
The Bill of Rights protects the rights and ____________of American citizens.
What is liberties or freedoms
500
The United States invaded and defeated Mexico, gaining this territory in the peace treaty that ended the war between the two countries.
What is the Mexican Cession
500
Approved, to have made a written document official by signing it