Constitution Day Review

The Constitution is_____________. It is made up of the preamble, articles, and amendments. It tells us how the country should be organized and how it should run.

• the supreme law and rules of the United States

• When the colonists brought diseases to the indigenous people

• an old paper written by Christopher Columbus

• A war fought between the British and the Colonists

The ____________ comes at the beginning and tells us why the constitution was written.

• Preamble

• Articles

• Amendments

There are _____ articles to the Constitution

• 270

• 10

• 7

• 3

These articles tell us how the ____________________ is organized and how to change things that might not be best for everyone

• school

• world

• classroom

• government

Amendments are changes to the Constitution.

• True

• False

There are ______ amendments to the Constitution

• 27

• 5

• 100

• 3

The first 10 amendments are called the ______________________________.

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Preamble

The Constitution was signed on ___________________, 1787

• August

• September

• May

• July

________________ people lived here first, before colonists came and took their land

• Indigenous

• colonists

• enslaved

The _________________________________ was the war between the British and the American Colonists, who were fighting for their freedom.

• American Revolution

• Bill of Rights

• Constitution

• Long War