Important Documents

Match the following

• outlines the structure of government

• Constitution

• Declares Independence from Great Britain

• Declaration of Independence

• Ensures individual rights for citizens

• Bill of Rights

Ensures (guarantees) individual rights for citizens

• Bill of rights

• constitution

• declaration of independence

Important documents are

Important documents are ______.

• important pieces of history

• important pieces of science

• important pieces of the Bill of Rights

• important pieces of the Declaration of Independence

What are important documents called?

• important pieces of history

• important pieces of science

• important pieces of the Bill of Rights

• important pieces of the Declaration of Independence

One of the reasons that the American Colonists were not happy with Great Britain was:

• The Declaration of Independence declares (said) that Great Britain violated (broke) the rights of the American Colonists

• The Bill of Rights declares (said) that Great Britain violated (broke) the rights of the American Colonists

• The Constitution declares (said) that Great Britain violated (broke) the rights of the American Colonists

• The Constitution declares (said) that American Colonists violated (broke) the rights of the Great Britain

The First Ten Amendments of the United States Constitution are called ____

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

• The Statue of Liberty

There ____ amendments, today.

• 27

• 29

• 37

• 28

How many amendments are there, today?

• 27

• 29

• 37

• 28

The changes to the constitution are called _____.

• amendments

• constitutions

• changes

• declarations