Civil Rights Court Cases

In the late 1950's, the Supreme Court ruled that school prayer violated the First Amendment's provision for separation of church and state. 

• True

• False

What court decision requires the police to "read you your rights" if you are arrested. For example, the will say, "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law."

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Engel v. Vitale

• Miranda v. Arizona

In the case of ​ (a)   , a school punished a group of students for wearing arm bands that protested the ​ (b)   . The students claimed their ​ (c)   rights were violated. The Supreme Court agreed, stating that students retain their right to ​ (d)   as long as they are not causing a disruption.

• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Vietnam War
• First Amendment
• freedom of speech
• Brown v. Board of Education
• World War II
• freedom of religion
• Fourteenth Amendment

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) First Amendment Cases

,

(b) Rights of those Accused of a Crime

,

(c) 14th Amendment Cases

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Engel v. Vitale

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Brown v. Board of Education

In the post-WWII era, rights for those accused of a crime expanded, including the right to an attorney (if a person cannot afford legal counsel, the court will appoint an attorney!)

• True

• False

Which of these court cases was most opposed by Christian evangelicals?

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Engel v. Vitale

The outcome of Hernandez v. Texas advanced civil rights primarily for -

• women

• Mexican-Americans

• religious minorities

• American Indians

Match the following OLD court cases to their significance!

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Internment of the Japanese was constitutional due to national security concerns

• Korematsu v. United States

• Congress cannot ban slavery in the territories

• Schenck v. United States (1919)

• Congress can limit freedom of speech during wartime (Espionage Act is allowed)

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)

• The state does not have authority over Cherokee land (Jackson ignored this)

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Established the principal judicial review

The expansion of individual rights in the post-World War II era is an example of -

• conservatism

• liberalism

• communism

• capitalism