U.S. History Regents Review: Supreme Court Cases

Which idea is illustrated by the Supreme Court cases Schenck v. United States and Korematsu v. United States

• The free speech rights of Communists have often been violated
• During wartime, limitations on civil rights have been upheld by judicial action
• The rights of protesters have been preserved even in times of national stress
• Economic interests of foreign nations are frequently upheld in U.S. courts

The Dred Scott decision on the issue of slavery upheld the Southern viewpoint that

• the power of the Supreme Court does not extend to cases of race
• Congress could not pass a law depriving territorial residents of their property
• a national vote should be held to decide the legality of slavery
• the economic well-being of the western states depended on slave labor

The decisions of the Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Escobedo v. Illinois all advanced the

• voting rights of minorities
• guarantees of free speech and the press
• principle of separation of church and state
• rights of accused persons

Under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court was considered 'activist' because of its

• reluctance to overturn state laws
• insistence on restricting freedom of speech to spoken words
• expansion of individual rights in criminal cases
• refusal to reconsider the issue of Plessy v. Ferguson

The significance of the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison is that the decision

• advanced civil rights for minorities
• upheld the constitutionality of a national bank
• limited Presidential control of foreign policy
• established the power of judicial review

"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." - Brown v. Board of Education
The effect of this Supreme Court ruling was to

• establish affirmative action programs in higher education
• require the integration of public schools
• desegregate the armed forces and the military academies
• force states to spend an equal amount on each public school student

As a result of the Supreme Court ruling in Miranda v. Arizona, a person accused of a crime is entitled to

• a speedy trial
• reasonable bail
• a reading of his or her rights at the time of arrest
• protection against cruel and unusual punishment

The case of John Peter Zenger (1735) and New York Times v. United States (1971) both involved a government's attempt to limit

• freedom of religion
• right to bear arms
• right to counsel
• freedom of the press

The Supreme Court cases of Tinker v. Des Moines and New Jersey v. TLO involved the issue of

• freedom of the press
• the rights of students in school
• freedom of religion
• the rights of prison inmates

The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was based on the constitutional principle of

• protection of property rights
• freedom of speech
• right to privacy
• freedom of religion