The Bill of Rights Vocab

Question 1

What freedoms does the first amendment guarantee?

Answer 1

freedom of religion
freedom of press
freedom of speech
freedom of assembly
freedom of petition

Question 2

What does the Second amendment guarantee?

Answer 2

gives American citizens the right to bear arms

Question 3

What does the third amendment prohibit?

Answer 3

no soldiers shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house

Question 4

What amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures?

Answer 4

the fourth amendment

Question 5

Which amendment guarantees the right of due process of law, protects people being tried twice of the same crime, prevents the courts from forcing a person to testify against himself?

Answer 5

the fifth amendment

Question 6

Which amendment guarantees the right to a lawyer, even if they can’t afford one?

Answer 6

the sixth amendment

Question 7

Which amendment gives you a right to a jury trial-civil case

Answer 7

the seventh amendment

Question 8

Excessive bail, no cruel or unusual punishments

Answer 8

the eighth amendment

Question 9

Rights not listed in the constitution

Answer 9

the ninth amendment

Question 10

Rights to the people and states

Answer 10

the tenth amendment

Question 11

lawsuits against states

Answer 11

the eleventh amendment

Question 12

presidential/vice presidential elections

Answer 12

the twelfth amendment

Question 13

abolition of slavery

Answer 13

the thirteenth amendment

Question 14

gave black men the right to vote

Answer 14

the fifteenth amendment

Question 15

what are the first ten amendments called

Answer 15

the bill of rights

Question 16

what did the nineteenth amendment give to women in 1920

Answer 16

women’s suffrage, the right to vote

Question 17

what is double jeopardy?

Answer 17

when a person is tried twice for the same crime ( fifth amendment says that)

Question 18

the thirteenth amendment was result of what war?

Answer 18

Civil War

Question 19

what is suffrage

Answer 19

gave people their right to vote

Question 20

who was given suffrage with the fifteenth amendment

Answer 20

the black men

Question 21

according to the twenty-second amendment, for how many terms can one be elected as president

Answer 21

2-years

Question 22

who was given the right to vote by the twenty-third amendment

Answer 22

women who live in Washington D.C

Question 23

What group was given suffrage with the twenty-sixth amendment

Answer 23

18- years old