AP US Government Civil Rights

Which amendment protects you from being searched without a warrant? 

• First Amendment

• Second Amendment

• Third Amendment

• Fourth Amendment

If one is arrested for a misdemeanor and cannot afford an attorney the suspect is entitled to a lawyer free of charge courtesy of what case?

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Engel v. Vitale

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

In Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), the Supreme Court upheld a student's right to wear an armband in protest. The wearing of the armband was protected as a form of which of the following?

• Prior restraint

• Symbolic speech

• Redress of grievances

• Peaceful public protest

Which of the following correctly describes the concept of prior restraint?

• The government attempting to prevent something from being published by the press

• The right of individuals to plan, coordinate, and execute peaceful methods of protest

• The punishment of individuals for making statements critical of the government

• The Supreme Court blocking government action on the grounds that it is unconstitutional

Which of the following protects people from discrimination?

• The Tenth Amendment reserved power clause

• Article 1 Section 8 elastic clause

• The Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause

• First Amendment separation of church and state

Which court case overruled Plessy v Ferguson and declared that separate is not equal? 

• Mapp v Ohio

• Gideon v Wainwright

• US v Nixon

• Brown v Board of Ed

The idea that people should be allowed to vote whether or not to have slavery in a territory is known as.....

• Compromise

• Popular vote

• Popular sovereignty

What was one effect of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• Immigrants faced less discrimination

• Black voters helped bring the Republican Party to power in the South

• Electors selected the president and vice president on separate ballots

• American Indian tribal land was divided into individual plots

Which group does the 24th Amendment aim to protect?

• soldiers

• women

• poor citizens

• European Americans

What amendment, made all people born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves— citizens of the country and guaranteed equal protection of the laws? 

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment