Unit Three Test : Civil Liberties & Civil Rights

Which Consitutional Amendment makes the Bill of Rights applicable to the states (Incorporation)

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

The purpose of __________ ___________ is to enhance/facilitate diversity without causing undue harm to nonminority applicants (paraphrased quote, as cited in SCOTUS decision, Sandra Day O' Connor, 2003).

• Selective Incorporation

• Exclusionary Rule

• Affirmative Action

• Judicial Review

To enforce the Fourteenth Amendment more clearly, Congress passed the:

• Social Security Act

• 26th Amendment

• War Powers Resolution

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Separation of students by race, even in equally good schools is unconstitutional. This decision was established by the SCOTUS in which landmark case?

• Brown v.Board of Education, Topeka, et al.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

Which test does the SCOTUS use to restrict speech?

• prior restraint

• rational basis review

• the Lemon test

• clear and present danger

True or False: The Establishment Clause prohibits the federal government from promoting religion or creating a national religion.

• True

• False

True or False: The Free Exercise Clause protects an individual's religious beliefs and reasonable religious practices.

• True

• False

Which the following is protected by the First Amendment?

• peaceful protest/peaceful assembly

• obscenity

• fighting words

• libel & slander

True or False: The SCOTUS has ruled the death penalty is not necessarily cruel and unusual punishment.

• True

• False

Extending the Constitutional protections provided in the Bill of Rights (by the 14th Amendment) to state governments, is known as:

• stare decisis

• federalism

• incorporation

• judicial review