 Class will be split into two teams › Two students will play at a time › Students will rotate in-between questions  Do not attempt to answer a question if it is not your turn  First to player to raise your hand has the first opportunity to answer the question › If first player is incorrect, second player has a chance to answer › If neither correctly answers, the players teams have an opportunity to answer › If neither team can answer correctly, no one receives the points.

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Final Jeopardy

What is the definition of Ratify?

To give legal approval to

What is the definition of Government?

The individuals and/or agencies responsible for governing (leading) a city, county, state, country, or territory

What is the definition of Constitution?

A written document that sets forth the basic laws of a nation, state, or organization.

What is the definition of Amendment?

The act of changing or modifying a legal document, especially the U.S. Constitution

What is the definition of Checks and Balances?

A system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power

Freedom of Religion, speech, press, to assemble, and to petition the government.

1 st Amendment

Prevents unreasonable searches and seizures. Requires a warrant in most cases to search and seize.

4 th Amendment

Right to speedy and public trial by an unbiased jury.

6 th Amendment

Protects against excessive bail and cruel, unusual punishment.

8 th Amendment

Right to bear arms.

2 nd Amendment

Which Founding Father was chosen to lead the continental army and later became the first president of the United States?

George Washington

Which founding father Fought in the Revolutionary War, Wrote the Federalist Papers, and became the first Secretary of the Treasury?

Alexander Hamilton

Which founding father was a delegate at the Second Continental Congress and later wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Jefferson

Which founding father wrote the pamphlet named “Common Sense” that was published in 1776?

Thomas Paine

Which founding father spoke the words “Give me liberty or give me death” and fought for the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution?

Patrick Henry

The 13 th Amendment abolished what two things?

Slavery and involuntary servitude.

The 18 th amendment, prohibition of alcohol, was put into affect on what date?

January 16 th, 1919

What amendment repeals the 18 th amendment, the prohibition of alcohol?

21 st Amendment

The 26 th amendment establishes what?

The legal voting age of 18.

What amendment established Women’s suffrage?

19 th Amendment

On the date of September 5 th, 1774 in Philadelphia, what was held in Carpenter’s hall?

1 st Continental Congress

The 2 nd Continental Congress was started on what date?

May 10 th, 1775

In what year was the Constitution written?

1787

The men who wrote the constitution are known as the what?

Framers

The master copies of the constitution are held where?

National Archives in Washington DC

Write down as much of the preamble as you can

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.domestic Tranquility defenceWelfarePosterityordain