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6th grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 14

Rights & Amendments

The Bill of Rights and beyond

What your child practices

What the first ten amendments protect, the Reconstruction Amendments, and why rights come with limits and responsibilities.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 6.17 · the rights in the Bill of Rights and later amendments, and how citizens use them

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments, was added in 1791.
  2. 1st: speech, religion, press, assembly and petition. 2nd: keep and bear arms. 5th: you don't have to testify against yourself.
  3. Rights have limits: one person's rights can't harm others' rights or safety.

Example: Which amendment protects freedom of speech? It lists five freedoms. It comes first in the Bill of Rights. Answer: the First Amendment

Rights & Amendments in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 8 of 14 in 6th grade Social Studies, after Founding Ideals and before Taking Part.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in…

    • 1776
    • 1791
    • 1920
    • 1865

  2. Question 2

    Which amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures?

    • The Fourth Amendment
    • The First Amendment
    • The Sixth Amendment
    • The Eighth Amendment

  3. Question 3

    The Fifteenth Amendment (1870)…

    • Said the right to vote can't be denied because of race
    • Gave women the vote
    • Ended the Civil War
    • Freed enslaved people

  4. Question 4

    Which amendment says you don't have to testify against yourself?

    • The Third Amendment
    • The Second Amendment
    • The Fifth Amendment
    • The Ninth Amendment

  5. Question 5

    The Thirteenth Amendment (1865)…

    • Gave women the vote
    • Abolished slavery in the United States
    • Ended Prohibition
    • Created the income tax

  6. Question 6

    Which right could protect someone who's been arrested from being held in jail for years without a trial?

    • Freedom of the press
    • Freedom from quartering
    • The right to a speedy trial
    • The right to bear arms

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