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Social Studies

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Forbids cruel and unusual punishment

a)

8th Amendement

b)

2nd Amendement

c)

4th Amendement

d)

1st Amendement

2.

SC:States may not restrict abortions during the 1st trimester

a)

Roe V. Wade (1963)

b)

Roe V. Wade 1973

c)

Roe V. Wade 1953

d)

Roe V. Wade 1943

3.

Sc:If you cannot afford attorney,one will be provided for you''; incorporation of 6th Amendement right to counsel to States

a)

Giedon V. WainWright 1967

b)

Giedon V. WainWright 1964

c)

Giedon V. WainWright 1962

d)

Giedon V. WainWright 1963

4.

Protection against arbitrary deprivation of life, liberty, or property as guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments (especially the 14th Amendment).

a)

Due Process

b)

Gain V. Wainwright

c)

Due Process Clause

d)

none above

5.

False speech intended to damage a person's reputation

a)

Due Process Claues

b)

Slander

c)

The Bill of Rights

6.

Laws that protect people from the government;including freedom of speech

a)

Civil Right

b)

Civil Honor

c)

Civil Liberties

7.

SC:The Death Penalty is not ''cruel and unusual'' 1976

a)

Gregg v. Georia (1975)

b)

Gregg v. Georia (1976)

c)

Gregg v. Georia (1974)

d)

Gregg v. Georia (1971)

8.

People should have the right to practice religion as they choose

a)

"Incorpation Clause

b)

Free exercise clause

c)

Bill of Right

9.

Censorship;limit ideas before they are expressed

a)

21st

b)

Prior Restraint

c)

Right to privay

10.

SC: "You have the right to remain silent"; citizens must be informed of constitutional rights in arrest- don't have to self-incriminate yourself (5th Amendment)

a)

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

b)

Miranda v. Arizona (1967)

c)

Miranda v. Arizona (1969)

d)

Miranda v. Arizona (1960)

11.

A form of freedom of expression without speaking

a)

Symbolic Speech

b)

Free speech

c)

Conferadate

d)

Artticle of Conferderation

12.

A false written statement about an individual

a)

Article of Confederate

b)

Libel

c)

Liberities Civil

13.

No person can be tried twice for the same crime (double jeopardy), you don't have to incriminate yourself (plead the 5th), eminent domain, grand jury

a)

5th Fifth Amendment

b)

1st Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

14th Amendment

14.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

a)

2nd amendment

b)

1st amendment

c)

3rd amendment

d)

12th amendment

15.

Obtaining evidence in a haphazard or random manner, a practice prohibited by the 4th Amendment.

a)

Roe V WAde

b)

none above

c)

Libel

d)

Unreasonable searches and seizures

16.

Illegally obtained evidence can't be used in court

a)

Slander

b)

Exclusionary rule

c)

8th Amendment

d)

none above

17.

Proposed by Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1919, it held that Congress could punish only speech that created a "clear and present danger".

a)

Prior Restraint

b)

Symbolic Speech

c)

"Clear-and-Present-Danger" test

d)

none above

18.

a clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution stating that Congress shall make no law "respecting an establishment of religion."

a)

Furman V. Gorgea 1972

b)

Establishment Clause

c)

Bill of Right

19.

The first ten amendment in the constitution

a)

Exclusionary Rule

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

Clear and present Danger tes

20.

SC: The death penalty is "cruel and unusual" (1972)

a)

Furman v. Georgia (1979)

b)

Furman v. Georgia (1975)

c)

Furman v. Georgia (1972)

d)

Furman v. Georgia (1971)

21.

Supreme Court case whose precedent established a three tier test to determine if the government is violating the 'establishment clause' of the first amendment

a)

Lemon v. Kurtzman 1986

b)

Lemon v. Kurtzman

c)

Schenck V. US

22.

Grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"; it forbids any state to deny any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws."

a)

14th Amendment (1862)

b)

14th Amendment (1868)

c)

Right to privacy

23.

The Bill of Rights is nationalized - provisions apply to the states through the 14th Amendment

a)

Lemon V. Kurtzman

b)

12th Amendment

c)

Incorporation Doctrine

24.

Congress can not make any laws that are pro religion; protects you "from" religion

a)

6th amendment

b)

Establishment clause

c)

14th amednment

25.

a clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution stating that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the "free-exercise" of religion; freedom for religion

a)

Engal V. Vitale

b)

Free-exercise Clause

c)

Libel

26.

Ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.

No school prayers in public school. Establishment clause case.

a)

Engle v. Vitale (1969)

b)

Engle v. Vitale (1960)

c)

Engle v. Vitale (1964)

d)

Engle v. Vitale (1962)

27.

Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I. Freedom of speech guaranteed by the first amendment did not extend to words that constituted "a clear and present danger to the safety of the country."

a)

Schenck v. United States (1912)

b)

Schenck v. United States (1914)

c)

Schenck v. United States (1919)

d)

Schenck v. United States (1910)

28.

personal information about individuals which can be collected by governments and other public

a)

None below

b)

No Privacy

c)

Right to privacy

29.

The government cannot curb ideas before they are expressed

a)

Free Speech

b)

Prior Restraint

c)

Civil Liberties

30.

Right to counsel, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to a speedy and public trial with a an impartial jury

a)

5th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

6th Amendment

d)

20th Amendment

31.

Right to counsel, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to a speedy and public trial with a an impartial jury

a)

5th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

6th Amendment

d)

20th Amendment