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The Bill of Rights

Question: What does the Bill of Rights do?
Answer:  Protect Individual Rights



Question: Who were the people who wanted the Bill of Rights?
a. Federalists
b. Anti-Federalists 
c. Liberalists 
d. Quakers

Answer: b. Anti-Federalists

Question: Which Amendments were the Bill of Rights?
a. 1-11
b. 1-12
c. 1-15
d. 1-10

Answer: d. 1-10

Question: What year was the Bill of Rights created?
Answer: 1791

Question: Why were the Bill of Rights added?
a. People worried that the central government was too strong
b. People didn't think there was enough individual rights
c. People liked the Constitution 
d. both a and b

Answer: d. both a and b

The Three Branches of Gov't

Question: Who is in the Executive Branch?
Answer: President

Question: How many house(s) are there in Congress?
Answer: 2

Question: What are the house(s) in Congress called?
a. Senate
b. House of Representatives 
c. Congress
d. a and b

Answer: d. a and b

Question: How many Justices are in the Supreme Court?
Answer: 9

Question: How many Representatives are there in the House of Representatives?
a. 987
b. 378
c. 435
d. 456

Answer: c. 435

Battles of the American Revolution

Question: What year did the first battle of the American Revolution start?
a.1775
b.1776
c.1774
d.1777

Answer: a.1775

Question: Who won the Revolution?
a. British
b. Americans

Answer: b. Americans

Question: Who won the Battle of Yorktown? 
Answer: America

Question: What year was the Battle of Trenton?
a. 1775
b. 1776
c. 1777
d. 1779

Answer: b. 1776

Question: In which battle in the Revolution did the "shot heard around the world" occur?
Answer: The Battle of Lexington and Concord 

The Constitution

Question: What is the introduction to the Constitution called?
Answer: Preamble 

Question: Which article in the Constitution talks about the Executive Branch?
a. Article I
b. Article II
c. Article III
d. Article IIII

Answer: b. Article II

Question: Which Amendment gave Women the right to vote?
a. 19th
b. 26th
c. 12th
d. 17th

Answer: a. 19th

Question: Which Article is about the Legislative Branch?
Answer: Article I

Question: How is an Amendment passed?
a. 2/3 of Congress proposing it and 3/4 of the States ratifying it
b. 2/3 of the States propose it to Congress and 3/4 of the States ratify it
c. a and b
d. 2/3 of Congress propose it and 3/5 of the States ratify it

Answer: c. a and b

The Original 13 Colonies

Question: Vermont was one of the original 13 colonies? True or False?
Answer: False: it was part of NY and Massachusetts but it wasn't it's own state until a while later

Question: Georgia was the Largest Colony. True or False? 
Answer: True

Question: Which colony George Washington born in?
Answer: Virginia

Question: What year were the Colonies established?
Answer: 1607

Question: Which Colony was for imprisoning criminals?
Answer: Georgia