The Amendments

Question 1

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 1

The First Ten Amendments

Question 2

Five Freedoms of the 1st Amendment

Answer 2

Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition

Question 3

Know Amendment 1-10

Answer 3

1) Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Petition
2) Right to Bear Arms
3) Quartering of Soldiers
4) Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
5) Right of Due Process of Law, no Double Jeopardy
6) Right to a public trial, right to a lawyer
7) Right to a jury trial
8) Excessive Bail, No Cruel and Unusual Punishment
9) Rights not listed in the constitution
10) Rights to the People and states

Question 4

Search Warrant

Answer 4

A document issued by a judge to the sheriff for the purpose of arresting someone suspected for a crime

Question 5

Petition

Answer 5

The right to ask gov’t to change things

Question 6

Due Process

Answer 6

The state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.

Question 7

Bail

Answer 7

Money that is given in order to be released from jail.

Question 8

Indictment

Answer 8

A formal charge or accusation against someone.

Question 9

Jury

Answer 9

A group of people who decide a court case.

Question 10

Quartering

Answer 10

Housing of soldiers in private houses

Question 11

Assemble

Answer 11

Gather together in a group

Question 12

Miranda Rights

Answer 12

Silence warning given by police to citizens suspected of crime

Question 13

Total number of Amendments

Answer 13

There are 27 Amendments in the Constitution

Question 14

Amendments XIII, XV, XIX, XXV, and XXVI

Answer 14

XIII) Abolition of Slavery

XV) Black Suffrage

XIX) Women’s Suffrage

XXV) Presidential Succession

XXVI) Eighteen-year-old vote