Bill of Rights Check on Learning

What is the Bill of Rights?

• Individual rights and freedoms that all American people have.

• A bill Americans must pay in order to receive their rights as a citizen.

• Bill was a person who wrote the list of individual rights that all African Americans were fighting for.

• First 10 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution

What does the word amendments mean?

For example: The founding fathers agreed that the Constitution of the United States needed _____.

• Review

• Approval

• Agreement

• Changes

This word means to approve, or make official.
For example, each individual state convention had to vote to ____ the Constitution before it became law.

• Revoke

• Ratify

• Prohibit

• Assemble

Which amendment grants freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and to petition?

• Amendment I

• Amendment II

• Amendment III

• Amendment IV

The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists debated over the need for the Bill of Rights for the constitution.

Federalists believed in a need of a _____ while the anti-federalists fought for protection of _____.

• individual/natural rights;

  strong central government

• free government;

  strict law

• strong central government; individual/natural rights

• strict law; free government

The author of the Bill of Rights referenced other documents such as the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

Who wrote the Bill of Rights?

• George Washington

• George Mason

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison