The Bill of Rights

What is a Federalist?

• A person who supported the new U.S. Constitution.
• A person who supported the Articles of Confederation.
• A person who supported the movement to end slavery.
• A relative who lived in the past.

What is an Anti-Federalist?

• A person who supported the new U.S. Constitution.
• A person who supported the Articles of Confederation.
• Northern people who moved South to start businesses after the Civil War.
• An early person who lived by hunting animals and gathering nuts, seeds, and fruit.

What is The Bill of Rights?

• An agreement made by the Pilgrims to govern themselves.
• U.S. foreign policy established by President James Monroe in 1823, warning European leaders not to establish colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
• The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees basic rights of all citizens.
• An introduction.

What does it mean to ratify something?

• To keep.
• Break away from.
• To bring together.
• Signed, or made official.

What is a constitutional republic?

• A government in which officials are elected to represent the people, and then govern according to a constitution.
• A line of wagons traveling as a group.
• Lawlessness; disorder caused by lack of rules.
• A society in which there are organized systems of government, religion, and learning.

What is popular sovereignty?

• A decision-making body that could be made up of a group's single leader or a small group of leaders.
• Peace within a nation.
• The idea that the government gets its power from the people and needs their consent to make laws.
• A group of people chose by people in each state to choose the U.S. President and Vice President.

What does The Bill of Rights do?

• Declared the Thirteen Colonies independent from Great Britain.
• Sets out how the U.S. government will be formed.
• Appoints justices to the Supreme Court.
• Protect individual rights.

How many amendments are in The Bill of Rights?

• 27
• 10
• 7
• 13

Which amendment protects basic freedoms, like freedom of speech?

• First Amendment
• Second Amendment
• Fifth Amendment
• Ninth Amendment

Which amendment grants powers to the state and local governments?

• Third Amendment
• Fourth Amendment
• Tenth Amendment
• Sixth Amendment