WorksheetsSupreme Court Cases
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
The Supreme Court issued its famous Marbury v. Madison ruling in what year?
1800
1803
1805
Did Marbury ever receive his commission (did he get appointed to the judicial job Adams gave him)?
Yes (yay for William!)
No (aw man, poor guy)
The outcome of the case led the Supreme Court to declare that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was _______ (meaning it violates the Constitution and is therefore not permitted)
undemocratic
unconstitutional
unjust
Showed that the president is accountable for obeying the law.
United States v. Nixon
Plessy v. Ferguson
Miranda v. Arizona
Tinker v. Des Moines
Nixon was impeached from presedency.
How many men were caught planting a wiretap inside the Democratic National Committee office at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C?
5
4
3
6
Define confidential
private
secretive
happy
need-to-know
What southern state was Plessy in?
Louisiana
Texas
Georgia
What did Homer Plessy do that got him arrested?
Sat in the white only part of the bus.
Took a seat in the white only car of a train.
Sat at a white only section of a lunch counter.
The 14th amendment was to gave all U.S. citizens what?
equal protection under the law
citizenship by birth on U.S. land
both of these
Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge
the Brown v. Board of Education case
Segregation and the Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction
equal pay for equal work
What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.
The Supreme Court never made a ruling.
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.
What famous phrase came out of the Plessy case?
"Separate but equal"
"Give me liberty or give me death."
"By any means necessary"
