Bill of Rights and Amendments

What is the first Amendment and what does it protect?

• Freedoms like the right to yell Fire for no reason in a crowded movie theater
• Freedoms like the right to bear arms, and shoot birds
• Freedoms like the right to petition the gov, speech, religion, and assembly
• Basic freedoms like the right to speak in public about issues facing the country. 

What is the 2nd Amendment?

• The right to shoot bears
• The right to bear arms
• The right to go bear in the forrest
• The right to have two arms that belong to bears

What is the Bill of Rights?

• The document signed giving us our independence from Great Britain.

• The first 10 amendments added to the Constitution.

• The 8 most important amendments added to the Constitution.

• The first 11 amendments added to the Constitution.

Which amendment allows you to write an article criticizing the government without getting in trouble for it?

• 7th amendment

• 5th amendment

• 8th amendment

• 1st amendment

No one has to house (quarter) soldiers in their home

• 1st
• 2nd
• 3rd
• 4th

Protects against "cruel and unusual punishment."

• 1st
• 3rd
• 5th
• 8th

Asked to be president of the Convention, first to sign

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• John Adams

Which house in Congress gives each state have equal representation? 

• Senate 
• House of Representatives 
• General Assembly 
• House of Commons 

What document replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a new national government? 

• The Declaration of Independence 
• The Constitution 
• The Magna Carta 
• The English Bill of Rights 

The issue of counting enslaved people for representation was solved with the

• Great Compromise
• One-Third Compromise
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Slave Compromise