3rd Quarter Civics Review

The idea that students and teachers don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” would have been expressed during which Supreme Court Case? 

• Miranda v. Arizona
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• in re Gault

Which Supreme Court case ruled that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional? 

• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
• Brown v. Board of Education

Juveniles accused of crimes continue to be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults as a result of which U.S. Supreme Court case? 

• Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
• In re Gault
• In re Greene
• District of Columbia v. Heller

Which of the following is the correct description of the amendment process?    

• Proposed by 2/3 of the Senate and Ratified by 3/4 of the House of Representatives
• Proposed by 3/4 of state legislatures and Ratified by 2/3 of Congress
• Proposed by 3/4 of Congress and Ratified by 2/3 of state legislatures
• Proposed by 2/3 of Congress and Ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures 

The purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) was to? 

• End legal segregation of schools and businesses
• Clarify the Second Amendment right to bear arms
• Prevent police from performing illegal searches
• Force states to end laws that hurt African Americans

You can register, or sign up, to vote at the age of 18 because of the? 

• Eighteenth Amendment 
• Twenty-Sixth Amendment 
• Twentieth Amendment
• Twenty-Fifth Amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment (1920) granted suffrage to which of the following groups? 

• African Americans
• Teenagers
• Women
• Hispanic Americans

Which amendment ended poll taxes and increased minority involvement in the political process?

• Eighteenth Amendment

• Twenty-Sixth Amendment

• Twenty-Fourth Amendment

• Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Which of the following freed slaves and helped guarantee their civil rights during the 1800s? 

• Civil war amendments
• Gratz v. Bollinger
• Gitlow v. New York
• Establishment clause

Throughout much of the 1900s, poll taxes were used to? 

• Allow people to pay for the privilege of voting more than once
• Prevent women from voting
• Prevent African Americans from voting
• Raise money for people running for office