History Challenge 11/17/08
This week’s prize is the book “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn Beck.
Because of the opposition to the adoption of the Constitution by the anti-Federalists, several states proposed amending the document to better protect the states, as well as individuals, from the incursions of the centralized federal government. Thus “The Bill of Rights” were drafted, debated, and eventually adopted.
Match the rights to the correct amendment.
1) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated….
2) The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
3) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
a) Amendment I
b) Amendment X
c) Amendment IV








Mary from Pittsburgh, PA is this weeks winner. The Correct answers were: 1)C 2) B 3) A