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Supreme Court Cases

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Supreme Court case dealt with your rights being read to you, while under arrest?

a)

Miranda v. AZ

b)

TLO v. New Jersey

c)

Tinker v. DesMoines

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

e)

Brown v. Board of Ed

2.

Which case said that segregation was legal in the United States?

a)

TLO v. New Jersey

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Ed

d)

California v. Bakke

e)

Engel v. Vitale

3.

What case said it was illegal to segregate schools and led to the eventual desegregation of American society?

a)

TLO v New Jersey

b)

Tinker v. DesMoines

c)

Brown v. Board of Ed

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

e)

Bush v. Gore

4.

Which of the following cases said you do have freedom of speech and assembly in schools?

a)

Tinker v. DesMoines

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Ed

d)

California v. Bakke

e)

Engel v. Vitale

5.

What case dealt with religion in public schools?

a)

Tinker v. DesMoines

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Bush v. Gore

d)

California v. Bakke

e)

Engel v. Vitale

6.

What case dealt with Affirmative Action?

a)

Engel v. Vitale

b)

Roe v. Wade

c)

California v. Bakke

d)

Tinker v. DesMoines

e)

Gideon v. Wainwright

7.

Gideon v. Wainwright deals with what?

a)

Affirmative Action

b)

The Right to a Lawyer

c)

The Right to Free Speech

d)

Freedom of Religion in Schools

e)

Freedom of Assembly in Schools

8.

Bush v. Gore's decision dealt with what branch of the US government?

a)

Executive

b)

Legislative

c)

Judicial

d)

None of these

9.

Roe v. Wade deals with what controversial subject?

a)

Free Speech

b)

Abortion

c)

Murder

d)

Freedom of Assembly

e)

Segregation

10.

McCulloch v. MD deals with what government concept?

a)

Dictatorship

b)

Federalism

c)

Religion

d)

Freedom of Speech

e)

Judicial Review

11.

Marbury v. Madison was the first big Supreme Court Case. What principal did it establish?

a)

Freedom of Religion

b)

Judicial Review

c)

Federalism

d)

Freedom of Speech

e)

Freedom of Assembly

12.

Baker v. Carr dealt with what concept?

a)

Gambling

b)

Federalism

c)

Gerrymandering

d)

Abortion

e)

Segregation

13.

Which case is about search and seizure laws in schools?

a)

Roe v. Wade

b)

McCulloch v. MD

c)

New Jersey v. TLO

d)

Bush v. Gore

e)

California v. Bakke

14.

Which supreme court case dealt with race and drawing legislative districts (gerrymandering)?

a)

Roe v. Wade

b)

Tinker v. DesMoines

c)

Baker v. Carr

d)

New Jersey v. TLO

e)

Bush v. Gore

15.

Who wrote the Constitution?

a)

John Jay

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

James Monroe

d)

James Madison

e)

Thomas Jefferson

16.

What Supreme Court case deals with whether or not the government can inter (set up concentration camps) for national security?

a)

Korematsu v. US

b)

Nixon v. US

c)

Miranda v. AZ

d)

Roe v. Wade

e)

Schenk v. US

17.

What did McCulloch v. MD deal with?

a)

Freedom of speech during a war

b)

Your rights when under arrest

c)

A state taxing a federal bank

d)

Monopoly rights on steamships in NY

e)

A woman's right to choose on abortion

18.

What did Schenck v. US deal with?

a)

Taxing a federal bank within state borders

b)

Judicial Review

c)

Freedom of speech during a war

d)

Whether or not a president can be compelled to testify

e)

The succession of the Vice President

19.

What case deals with a woman's number of hours required at work during a standard work day?

a)

Nix v. Heden

b)

McCulloch v. MD

c)

Muller v. Oregon

d)

Dartmouth v. Woodard

e)

Marbury v. Madison

20.

What case deals with whether a president can be investigated and then forced to testify in court?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

McCulloch v. MD

c)

Miranda v. AZ

d)

Nixon v. US

e)

Korematsu v. US

21.

What Supreme Court case deals with whether or not a slave is a person or property?

a)

Plessy v. Fergusson

b)

Dred Scott v. Sanford

c)

TLO v. NJ

d)

Fletcher v. Peck

e)

Gibbons v. Ogden

22.

What Supreme Court case established that the Federal Supreme Court has authority over state courts?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Martin v. Hunter's Lease

c)

Gibbons v. Ogden

d)

Muller v. Oregon

e)

Tinker v. Des Moines

23.

What case established that tomatoes are legally a vegetable?

a)

Gideon v. Wainwright

b)

Tinker v. Des Moines

c)

Muller v. Oregon

d)

Nix v. Heden

e)

Korematsu v. US

24.

What did Cherokee Nation v. Georgia focus on?

a)

Gerrymandering

b)

Judicial Review

c)

Native American Relocation

d)

Tariffs on Foreign Goods

e)

African-American Civil Rights

25.

What Supreme Court case stated that the federal government couldn't nationalize private businesses?

a)

Dartmouth v. Woodard

b)

Martin v. Hunter's Lease

c)

Brown v. Board of Ed

d)

New Jersey v. TLO

e)

Miranda v. Arizona