MS Civics & Citizenship Part A Unit 3 Test Review

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Which of the following three rights are protected by the Bill of Rights?

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  right to a jury trial

  
  

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  right to practice the religion of one’s choice

  
  

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  right to bear arms

  
  

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  right to a public education

  
  

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  right to travel freely

  
  

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Which two of the following most likely violate a right in the Bill of Rights?

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  A president tries to shut down newspapers that criticize his or her actions.

  
  

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  A person is arrested and questioned for hours before being allowed to call a lawyer.

  
  

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  A group of high school students decides to pray together in the cafeteria during lunch.

  
  

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  A school principal censors a yearbook photo that shows a student wearing an offensive t-shirt.

  
  

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Amendment IX of the US Constitution states: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

What is the primary purpose of this amendment?

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  To ensure that rights not listed in the Constitution may also be protected

  
  

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  To explain the difference between enumerated and unenumerated rights

  
  

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  To justify limiting liberties that are not explicitly mentioned in the Bill of Rights

  
  

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  To guarantee that powers not described in the Constitution belong to the people

  
  

Match each landmark Supreme Court case to its outcome.

• protected right to bear arms in states

• Engel v. Vitale

  
  

• protected symbolic speech

• Schenck v. United States

  
  

• speech cannot endanger society

• McDonald v. City of Chicago

  
  

• right to a free press

• New York Times v. United States

  
  

• banned school-sponsored prayer

• Texas v. Johnson

  
  

What was the purpose of poll taxes?

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  to disenfranchise African Americans

  
  

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  to make elections more secure

  
  

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  to make voting locations more easily accessible

  
  

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  to disenfranchise Confederate Army veterans

  
  

What did the Supreme Court decide in Plessy v. Ferguson?

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  Segregation laws were constitutional.

  
  

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  Former slaves were not entitled to suffrage.

  
  

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  Women were not entitled to suffrage.

  
  

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  Poll taxes were not unconstitutional.

  
  

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Which two arguments were made by opponents of women's suffrage?

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  Women should not vote because they belonged in the home.

  
  

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  Women should not vote because they were too emotional.

  
  

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  Women should not vote because many men could not vote.

  
  

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  Women should not vote because they did not own property.

  
  

In 1964, only thirty-five percent of African Americans were registered to vote in the South. By 1969, that had increased to sixty-five percent. What most likely contributed to this change?

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  The Voting Rights Act of 1965

  
  

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  The Fifteenth Amendment

  
  

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  The Civil Rights Act of 1964

  
  

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  The Thirteenth Amendment

  
  

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Checks and balances between branches of government help protect minority rights while generally maintaining [1]​ (a)   . For example, the president may enact a/an [2] ​ (b)   without permission from Congress. However, if the Supreme Court decides that this action does not sufficiently protect the rights of minorities, it can rule it [3]​ (c)   and strike it down.

• Majority Rule
• Executive Order
• Unconstitutional
• Minority Rule
• Congressional rule
• presidential law
• undemocratic
• immoral

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In the early 1900s, the [1]​ (a)   launched the [2]​ (b)   movement. It took many years after the Supreme Court's mid-century decision in [3]​ ​ (c)   for [4] ​ (d)   to become common in public schools.

• NAACP
• civil rights
• Brown v. Board of Education
• desegregation
• discrimination
• NATO
• women's rights
• Roe v. Wade