THE PAST IS ALIVE

What is the Bill of Rights?

What are some of the KEY RIGHTS?

How are amendments added to the Constitution?

Whose job is it to make sure all new laws “fit” within the Constitution?

1868

1968

• End of the Civil War (1865)

• Reconstruction Acts (1865 – 1868)

• Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)

• Bus Boycott (1955)• Civil Rights Act (1964)• Martin Luther King Jr.

assassinated (1968)

Why was it important to the United States to have a

person like Martin Luther King Jr.?

Can’t Turn Us Around performed by The Roots

In Class Activity Your task is to complete the CLOZE ACTIVITY by

filling in the blanks using the word bank. o USE PENCIL ONLY

14th Amendment

15th Amendment