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Background
Name that Amendment
Name Amendments 2
People
Impact
100
The number of amendments accepted when the Bill of Rights was first adopted
What is ten?
100
This amendment guarantees freedom from conviction for a crime without a formal trial
What is the Fifth Amendment?
100
This Amendment protect against illegal search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
100
The main author of the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
100
original 10 amndments
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This war was fought in efforts to facilitate the Bill of Rights
What is the Revolutionary War?
200
This amendment guarantees the right to bear arms
What is the Second Amendment?
200
guarantees the right of people to assemble and to petition the government.
Other then freedom of speech, freedom of pres and freedom of religion, What are to other freedoms noted in the first amendment?
200
This man became president in 1789 shortly before the Bill of Rights was passed
Who is George Washington?
200
Approval of the Bill of Rights.
What help lead to the ratification of the US Constitution?
300
Anti-Federalist wanted this added to the Constitution in order to guarantee individual rights
What is Bill of Rights?
300
This amendment outlaws cruel and unusual punishments
What is the Eighth Amendment?
300
states that there will be no cruel and unusual punishment for the accused.
What does the eighth amendment?
300
This man believed that the Bill of Rights would be a dangerous resolution
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
300
We now how 27
How many amendments are there?
400
The Bill of Rights guaranteed these two things
What are civil liberties and civil rights?
400
One right that the First Amendment guarantees
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, and freedom of assembly?
400
you have the right to remain silent.
What is the fifth amendment?
400
The Bill of Rights unified these two groups of people
Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
400
Rock n Roll
What is the best kind of music?
500
The first eight amendments to the constitution were derived from this Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason in 1776
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
500
This amendment forbids soldiers from taking residence in your home
What is the Third Amendment?
500
Trial by jury / Speedy Trial
What is the sixth amendment?
500
Richard Henry Lee and this man were prominent Virginians who opposed the Bill of Rights
Who is George Mason?
500
The fourth amendment
Which Amendment is controversial today.