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A More Perfect Union · Activity 13 — Rights in Writing. The Bill of Rights and the amendments after it — or print it and use a pencil, both count.

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Social Studies · Activity 13

Rights in Writing

Ten promises were added to the Constitution in 1791, and the country kept adding more. Three sets: the everyday five, the rest of the ten, and the amendments that widened the circle. In every set, the last three questions are moments in a life — you say which amendment is at work.

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A city posts a rule: no gathering in the park to protest the new curfew. A hundred neighbors gather anyway, peacefully, with signs. Which amendment stands with them?
Find the freedom inside the story first. Nobody is on trial, nobody is being searched — the neighbors are GATHERING and SPEAKING.
Gathering peacefully is assembly, and telling the government it is wrong is petition — both live in the same amendment as speech.
The First Amendment — peaceful assembly and petition. Story first, freedom second, amendment last: that order answers every question on this page.

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Answer in your own words — the amendment's number AND what it protects. At the bottom, write the five voice-freedoms of the First from memory.

  1. 1What is the Bill of Rights?
  2. 2The First Amendment protects five freedoms. Which list is right?
  3. 3Which amendment says the government cannot search you or your home without a good reason — usually a warrant from a judge?
  4. 4You cannot be tried twice for the same crime, and you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. Which amendment?
  5. 5Accused of a crime, you get a trial by jury — and a lawyer, even if you cannot pay for one. Which amendment?
  6. 6Amara writes a letter to the town newspaper saying the mayor's new rule is unfair, and asks the town council to change it. Nobody can punish her for it. Which amendment is at work?
  7. 7An officer stops Diego on the sidewalk and wants to dig through his backpack — no reason given, no warrant. Diego asks what right protects him. Which is it?
  8. 8Rosa is accused of a crime she says she did not commit. Her family cannot afford a lawyer. The court appoints one to defend her anyway. Which amendment made that happen?
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Date
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Skill
Match Bill of Rights and later amendments to what they protect
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Trials (x of y)
Independent
0 of 8
Supported
0 of 8
Hints used
0
Confidence
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Built along the class outline's Bill of Rights and Amendments pages. Set 1 is the everyday five (what the Bill of Rights is, then the 1st's five freedoms, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th); Set 2 finishes the ten (2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, 10th — the 9th rides this set's stretch); Set 3 is the widening circle (13, 14, 15, 19, 26, with Dred Scott answered and Thomas Mundy Peterson's 1870 ballot as the lived moment). Items 1–5 of every set name the right; 6–8 are scenarios where the student spots the amendment at work — the transfer skill quizzes actually test. Wrong options are nearly always REAL amendments on the wrong shelf, and every say-line names the shelf that answer belongs to — the miss is the review. Later amendments the outline lists (16, 17, 18/21, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27) appear as those teaching distractors, so the whole list gets touched without twenty-seven separate questions.

Three doors on this page: Show me one first is a worked example and counts toward nothing; the eight items are the walk; and a finished set opens One more, if you want it — a stretch with two tries and the thinking shown warmly either way. Whether each door was used rides along when a probe row is copied or sent — as information, never as a score.

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