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

•13th- FREE•14th- CITIZEN•15th- VOTE