Amendments Test study guide

Question 1

The enforced separation of different racial groups is called?

Answer 1

segregation

Question 2

Define the right to vote in political elections

Answer 2

suffrage

Question 3

Basic freedoms guaranteed to citizens by the Constitution are called?

Answer 3

(natural) rights

Question 4

2 examples in which your right to speech might be withheld/stopped

Answer 4

In times of war (times of national security) or in court (gag order)

Question 5

Confinement or imprison is referred to as?

Answer 5

Internment

Question 6

Define the 13th Amendment

Answer 6

abolished slavery

Question 7

Define the 14th Amendment

Answer 7

gives citizenship at birth

Question 8

Define the 15th Amendment

Answer 8

All MEN can vote

Question 9

Define the 19th Amendment

Answer 9

Women can vote

Question 10

Define the 24th Amendment

Answer 10

You can’t make people pay to vote

Question 11

Define the 26th Amendment

Answer 11

Voting age of 18

Question 12

Roe V. Wade made what legal in the US and was overturned by the supreme court?

Answer 12

abortion

Question 13

What were the laws called that were put in place by the south in order to keep persecuting African-Americans?

Answer 13

Jim Crow Laws

Question 14

The Dred Scott ruling stated that slaves were not able to bring court cases for their freedom because?

Answer 14

they were not considered citizens

Question 15

What precedent did Miranda V. Sanford set?

Answer 15

must say the Miranda rights

Question 16

What effect did Plessy V. Ferguson have?

Answer 16

Make segregation legal across the US

Question 17

What precedent did Brown V. Board of education set?

Answer 17

It desegregated schools and started the end of segregation

Question 18

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I have a dream” took place where

Answer 18

Washington DC

Question 19

Which Amendments are considered the Civil War Amendments?

Answer 19

13th, 14th, & 15th

Question 20

Schneck V. US dealt with which Amendment and issue?

Answer 20

First Amendment and your freedom of speech can be limited

Question 21

Describe the issue in Korematsu V. US?

Answer 21

After Pearl Harbor, the US government put those of Japanese descent in internment camps

Question 22

What was the ruling of the supreme court in T.L.O V. New Jersey?

Answer 22

New Jersey won and students are now not protected by the 4th Amendment in school

Question 23

California V. Greenwood set what precedent?

Answer 23

Garbage is not protected by the 4th Amendment

Question 24

The Safford V. Redding case dealt with what issue/Amendment?

Answer 24

4th Amendment and made strip searches in school illegal for non intrusive items

Question 25

1 example how your right to assemble might be prevented

Answer 25

if it presents a clear and present danger

Question 26

The Skokie case dealt with which Amendment?

Answer 26

1st Amendment (the Jewish town)

Question 27

What is a precedent?

Answer 27

a ruling for future similar scenarios (sets the bar)