AP Chapter 14 The Courts

Which United States court has only original jurisdiction?

• Supreme Court
• Military Court
• District Court
• Court of Appeals

What is the highest court in the country?

• District Court
• Court of Appeals
• Supreme Court
• Military Court

What is the best title for the empty box of the diagram?

• Virginia Court of Appeals
• United States Court of Appeals
• World Court of Appeals
• Military Court of Appeals

Which United States court conducts jury trials?

• Supreme Court
• Magistrate Court
• District Court
• Court of Appeals

What term means the authority of a court to be the first to hear a case?

• Appellate jurisdiction
• First jurisdiction
• Original jurisdiction
• Open jurisdiction

What court has the judicial review over all lower courts?

• State Supreme Court
• Court of Appeals
• US Supreme Court
• Circuit Court

What Supreme Court decision gave the court system the power of judicial review?

• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Roe v. Wade
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Marbury v. Madison

What are the three levels of the federal court system?

• County, Trial, Supreme

• District, Appeals, Supreme

• Criminal, Civil, Appeals

• Trial, County, District

Article III gives ________ the power to create federal courts under the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Congress

• The Senate

• The president

• Individual states

__________ means asking a higher court to review a lower court's decision for error.

• Appeal

• Trial

• Evidence

• Witness