Landmark Supreme Court Cases Quiz

Built upon the right of privacy to establish first trimester abortion rights for women in all 50 states.

(a)  

• Roe v. Wade
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Marbury v. Madison

This (a)   case set a high standard for prior restraint and ruled that the government in this instance did not have grounds to stop the publication of the papers.

• New York Times Co. v. United States
• United States v. Nixon
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Roe v. Wade

(a)   established the principle of judicial review, allowing the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of legislative and executive acts.

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

(a)   established the 6th amendment standard that all people are entitled to an attorney even if they cannot afford one.

• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Marbury v. Madison
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Miranda v. Arizona

Ruled that legislative redistricting must be conscious of race and be in compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

(a)  

• Shaw v. Reno
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Marbury v. Madison

(a)   established the judiciary's ability to rule on issues of legislative apportionment and opened the door to equal protection challenges to redistricting.

• Baker v. Carr
• Marbury v. Madison
• Brown v. Board of Education
• McCulloch v. Maryland

(a)   prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools on the grounds that it violated the Establishment Clause.

• Engel v. Vitale
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Roe v. Wade
• Miranda v. Arizona

(a)   established the “clear and present danger” test and stated that such forms of speech are not protected by the First Amendment.

• Schenck v. United States
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Roe v. Wade

Ruled that Congress had the power to establish a national bank under the necessary and proper clause and that states did not have the power to tax a federal institution.

(a)  

• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Marbury v. Madison
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Which case ruled that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," is inadmissible in state courts?

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Tinker v. Des Moines