Supreme Court Cases Quiz

This case required the legislative branch to pass laws that ended public school segregation after the Court declared it unconstitutional.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

In this case, the executive branch, led by the president, had to enforce the desegregation of public schools, especially in the southern states.

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

This case shows how the judicial branch can check the legislative branch by ruling that the doctrine of 'separate but equal' was unconstitutional.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

This case required the legislative branch to address segregation in higher education by passing new laws to ensure equal access.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Sweatt v. Painter

The judicial branch ruled that segregated public facilities, such as transportation, could be legal, as long as they were 'separate but equal.'

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Brown v. Board of Education

After this ruling, the legislative branch was tasked with making laws that ensured religious freedoms were protected.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Hernandez v. Texas

The president and the executive branch were responsible for ensuring that Amish communities were not forced to send their children to school after 8th grade.

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Sweatt v. Painter

In this case, the judicial branch extended protections of the 14th Amendment to Mexican Americans, ensuring equal treatment in jury selection.

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Sweatt v. Painter

This case demonstrates how the executive branch must enforce rulings that ensure minorities are not excluded from jury service due to their ethnicity.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Sweatt v. Painter

This case led to the judicial branch determining that 'separate but equal' was constitutional, influencing how the legislative branch dealt with segregation laws.

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Wisconsin v. Yoder