Bill of Rights Jeopardy

A Bill of Rights review for middle school civics: all ten amendments, their history, and real scenarios. Copy it free; the class buzzes in on phones.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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The First Amendment

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The First Amendment protects the freedom to practice this, or none at all.
What is religion?
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Freedom of this lets newspapers and news sites report without government censorship.
What is the press?
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The First Amendment protects the right to gather peacefully, known as freedom of this.
What is assembly?
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Asking the government to fix a problem, often with a signed letter, is the right to do this.
What is petition?
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This part of the First Amendment bars the government from setting up an official national religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?

Amendments Two Through Four

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The amendment on bearing arms refers to a well regulated one of these, a citizen army.
What is a militia?
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The Third Amendment says that in peacetime, you cannot be forced to house these in your home.
What are soldiers?
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The Bill of Rights protects people from unreasonable searches and these.
What are seizures?
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The protection against unreasonable searches covers your person, houses, papers and these, meaning your belongings.
What are effects?
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Before a judge signs a search warrant, police must show this, a reasonable basis to believe a crime occurred.
What is probable cause?

Rights of the Accused

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Refusing to answer questions that could incriminate you is often called pleading this amendment.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
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The Bill of Rights gives an accused person the right to have this trained person help with the defense.
What is a lawyer?
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A person acquitted of a crime cannot be tried for it again, a Bill of Rights protection called this.
What is double jeopardy?
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The Bill of Rights says no one can lose life, liberty or property without this fair legal process.
What is due process of law?
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The Bill of Rights says this money, paid to be released from jail before trial, cannot be excessive.
What is bail?

Amendments Nine and Ten

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The Tenth Amendment says powers not given to the national government belong to the people or to these.
What are the states?
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The Tenth Amendment supports this system of sharing power between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
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Running schools and issuing driver's licenses are examples of these powers kept by the states.
What are reserved powers?
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The Ninth Amendment protects rights not listed in the Constitution, sometimes called these rights.
What are unenumerated rights?
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Powers held by both the national and state governments, such as collecting taxes, are called these.
What are concurrent powers?

Why a Bill of Rights

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The Bill of Rights is made up of this many amendments.
What is ten?
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These opponents of the Constitution demanded a list of rights before they would support it.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
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Called the Father of the Constitution, this Virginian wrote the amendments that became the Bill of Rights.
Who was James Madison?
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The Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15 of this 18th-century year.
What is 1791?
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Madison drew on this 1776 document written by George Mason for his home state.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

Which Amendment Is It

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A citizen legally keeps a hunting rifle at home, a right protected by this amendment.
What is the Second Amendment?
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Police get a warrant from a judge before searching a suspect's home, as this amendment requires.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
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A man arrested for theft waits in jail for years without a trial, violating this amendment's speedy trial right.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
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A prisoner argues that being whipped is cruel and unusual punishment under this amendment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
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In a federal civil lawsuit over more than 20 dollars, the right to a jury trial comes from this amendment.
What is the Seventh Amendment?

Final Jeopardy — Five Freedoms

This amendment protects freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly, and petition.

What is the First Amendment?

How to run this board

This board works through the first ten amendments in groups: the freedoms of the First Amendment, the Second and Third, protections against unreasonable searches, the rights of someone accused of a crime, and the Ninth and Tenth. A history column covers why the Bill of Rights was added and who pushed for it, and a scenarios column asks students to name the amendment a situation raises.

The Which Amendment Is It column is where real understanding shows, so give teams a short huddle before buzzing and ask the winning team to explain their reasoning in a sentence.

A printed list of the ten amendments makes a fair scaffold for the first run through. Take it away for a second game later in the unit and see how much sticks.

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