United States Constitution

Article I creates a legislature (law-making branch) called congress. Congress is broken into two parts, these parts are:

• Senate and House of Representatives

• Federal and State

• Justices and Judges

• Local and State

What is an amendment?

• to reject a bill

• a change or addition

• the introduction to the Constitution

• future generations

The Articles of Confederation was the first national ____________ in America.

• Letter to the king
• System of government
• Declaration of war
• Collection of banks

Which amendment give you the right of Religion, Assembly, Speech, and Press?

• First Amendment
• Second Amendment
• Third Amendment
• Fourth Amendment

Article 1 of the Constitution states that this branch of government is responsible for writing laws for the nation.

• Legislative Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Executive Branch

• None of the above

• All of the above

What are the first 10 amendments called?

• Electoral College
• Congress
• Bill of Rights
• amendment

Slavery was abolished in 1865 by

• Amendment 3
• Amendment 4
• Amendment 13
• Amendment 14

The three branches of the national government are:

• The House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, the National Archives
• judicial, legislative, executive
• executive, the house, military
• president, cabinet, congress

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution

• Constitutional Convention

• Continental Congress

• Treaty of Paris

• Articles of Confederation

True or False: The number of Senators in each state is always equal.

• True

• False