Exam 1 - Pretest 3

Question 1

What best describes the Seditions Act of 1798

Answer 1

It was the first major challenge to First Amendment Freedoms

Question 2

Which of the following describes a public policy that works to remove past barriers to discrimination?

Answer 2

Equality of opportunities

Question 3

What was established by the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

Answer 3

The separate-but-equal doctrine

Question 4

T or F
The Supreme court ruled that a student-led prayer at a sporting event is a violation of the establishment clause.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Which of the following is the Lemon test used to determine?

Answer 5

If state aid to sectarian schools is constitutional

Question 6

What is TRUE about the fourteenth amendment?

Answer 6

It is directed to state governments

Question 7

If the NFL decided to equalize the thirty-two team rosters with a balance of women and previously underrepresented ethnicities. This would be an example of ____.

Answer 7

Affirmative action

Question 8

The ___ decision was first significantly enforced by the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 8

Brown

Question 9

_____ was NOT used by southern legislatures to get around the 15th Amendment

Answer 9

Minimum age requirements

Question 10

The right to ___ is provided by the Ninth Amendment. It is NOT specifically enumerated in the Constitution

Answer 10

Privacy

Question 11

Which of the following best describes the Voting Rights Acts of 1965?

Answer 11

It is the most important voting legislation ever enacted

Question 12

Which of the following is a concept in criminal procedure that places the burden of proof on the government in establishing guilt?

Answer 12

A presumption of innocence

Question 13

Which of the following issues has been most affected by the Fourteenth Amendment?

Answer 13

Civil rights

Question 14

One example of ___ is burning an American flag, according to the supreme court.

Answer 14

Symbolic speech

Question 15

___ Is legislative punishment that bypasses the procedural safeguards of the legal process.

Answer 15

A bill of attainder

Question 16

The NAACP stands for which of the following?

Answer 16

National Associations for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 17

If the Tampa Bay Times was ordered to halt a story in the process of being published because it contains potentially harmful content, it would be an example of ___.

Answer 17

Prior restraint

Question 18

Capital punishment has changed over the history of the United States. Between 1976 and 2018 no state executed more persons (482) than____.

Answer 18

Texas

Question 19

___, decided by the Supreme court in 1966, produced requirements to protect a suspect during a police interrogation

Answer 19

Miranda v Arizona

Question 20

The Supreme Court ruling that college professors cannot cut off the fingers of students that score poorly on their American government quizzes is an example of a court protecting citizens from ______, as stated in the _____.

Answer 20

Cruel and unusual punishment; Eights amendment

Question 21

Which of the following cases struck down the separate-but-equal doctrine?

Answer 21

Brown v Board of education

Question 22

Americans are protected from ___ by the Fourth Amendment

Answer 22

Unreasonable searches and seizure

Question 23

What did Roe v Wade accomplish?

Answer 23

It prohibited virtually all restrictions on abortions during the first trimester

Question 24

The ___ establishes a preservation of a sphere of religious practice free of interference by the government.

Answer 24

Free exercise clause

Question 25

Many people believe that positive steps called Affirmative Action are needed to overcome ____.

Answer 25

The residuals effects of generations of racial bias

Question 26

The thirteenth Amendment ___

Answer 26

Banished slavery

Question 27

The ____ clause of the First Amendment was violated when the Ten commandments was displayed in a Kentucky courthouse, according to the Supreme court.

Answer 27

Establishment

Question 28

T or F
The supreme court focused its desegregation efforts on school systems in the north until the 1970s because de facto segregation was more prevalent there than in the south.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

What year was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?

Answer 29

1791

Question 30

Although Dora is arrested for abusing her pet monkey Boots and she has no resources to hire an attorney, there is a provision in the Constitution assuring her of a right to counsel. Where is this provision found?

Answer 30

In the sixth amendment