1st Amendment Rights

The Bill of Rights is:

• The statement police must read to you when you are arrested.

• The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

• The opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

• The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

The 1st Amendment protects __________ basic freedoms.

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 20

...gives Americans the right to express themselves without having to worry about government interference.

• freedom of speech

• freedom of press

• freedom of assembly

allows people to express themselves through publication

• freedom of speech

• freedom of press

• freedom of petition

...prohibits the government from establishing a “state” religion and from favoring one religion over any other.

• freedom of speech

• freedom of petition

• freedom of religion

protects the freedom to peacefully gather together or associate with a group of people for social, economic, political or religious purposes. It also protects the right to protest the government.

• freedom of assembly

• freedom of petition

• freedom of press

...the right to present requests to the government without punishment.

• freedom of assembly

• freedom of speech

• freedom of petition