Day 4 STAAR Review
Bill of Rights and Reconstruction
Amendments
Bill of Rights
• 1st 10 amendments to the US Constitution
• 1st Amendment- Freedom of Speech, Religion,
Assembly, Petition, Press
• 2nd Amendment- right to bear arms
• 3rd Amendment- no quartering (housing)
troops
• 4th Amendment- no illegal search and seizure,
must obtain warrant
• 5th Amendment-due process of law: indictment
(officially charged with a crime); no double jeopardy
(cannot be tried for the same crime twice); cannot be
forced to testify when testimony incriminates ones’
self- “I plead the 5th”
• 6th Amendment- trial by jury- criminal case; right to a
speedy, public trial
• 7th Amendment- trial by jury- civil case (involving
money rather than jail)
• 8th Amendment- no cruel of unusual punishment
• 9th Amendment- people have other rights not listed in
the Constitution
• 10th Amendment- states have other rights not listed
in the Constitution; prevented the government from
encroaching on rights of states
Reconstruction Amendments
• 13th Amendment- set slaves free; slaves could
move and live anywhere they wanted.
• 14th Amendment- gave citizenship to ex-slaves
and free African Americans; all citizens were
now considered equal before the law; this
amendment reversed the Dred Scott v
Sandford
• 15th Amendment- gave right to vote to all
African American males; expanded Democracy
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•14 - CITIZEN
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•15 - VOTE