Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights protects and upholds the rights of each citizen against infringement from the private citizen, public official, or the government. The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

On September 25, 1789, the First Federal Congress sent 12 amendments to the states to consider. Virginia became the eleventh state to ratify amendments 3-12. These first 10 amendments were known as the Bill of Rights. Three-fourths of the states ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791.

Government Unit

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Grades: 3

12 Day unit on Government and the impact the American Revolution had on South Carolina.

Bibliography And Works Cited For Episode 3: Birth Of The Constitution | History In A Nutshell

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"Bill Of Rights Of The United States Of America (1791)." Bill Of Rights Institute. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/. Accessed 3 October 2018. Locke, John. Two...

Birth of the Constitution - Photos

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

This photo gallery features the following visuals from the "Birth Of The Constitution" episode! Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Author Of "The Social Contract" John Locke, Author Of "Two Treatises Of...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Three

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Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 3 shares the recollections of a 12-year-old girl whose entire family...

Petition from "Free people of Colour and free Negroes," 1820 | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 7

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Petition from "Free people of Colour and free Negroes," 1820. In 1756, the General Assembly passed a law which levied a tax on "All free Negroes, Mulattos and Mestizos who do not pay any other part of...

George Washington Letter to Charles Pinckney | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 5

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Grades: 4 8

One of the objections of those who opposed the adoption of the Constitution was its lack of a Bill of Rights, and South Carolina's ratifying convention directed that its delegates to the new Congress...

Charles Pinckney Bio | Forgotten Founder

Episode 17

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Grades: 3 4 5

Charles Pinckney is one of the oldest and most historically distinguished names in South Carolina. Having arrived in America in 1692 Thomas Pinckney (Charles Pinckney's great grandfather) was a...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Periscope

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 9 10 11 12

In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton invited Lucretia Mott and a small group of women's rights supporters to her home in Seneca Falls, New York. There, they wrote one of the most important documents of the...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson One

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Grades: 5, 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 1 deals with the rememberances of Trude (pronounced Tru-dee) Heller...

The Bill of Rights | Forgotten Founder

Episode 12

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Grades: 9 10 11 12

During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds...