Supreme Court Cases

Question 1

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 1

People of African decnet that slaves or were slaves cannot be United States citizens
Slavery cannot be outlawed in western terriroties

Question 2

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 2

Segregated facilities are unconstitutional

Question 3

Smith v. Allwright

Answer 3

Primary elections open to all voters

Question 4

Korematsu v. United States

Answer 4

American citizens of Japanese descent can be interned and deprived of their constitutional rights

Question 5

Morgan v. Virginia

Answer 5

(1946)

law that enforces segregation on interstate buses is unconstitutional

Question 6

Shelley v. Kraemer

Answer 6

(1948)

Courts may not enforce racial covenants on real estate

Question 7

Henderson v. United States

Answer 7

1950

Unlawful for a railroad that engages in interstate commerce subject to any undue prejudice

Question 8

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 8

1954

Segregated schools are unconstitutional because they violate the Equal Protection Clause

Question 9

Bolling v. Sharpe

Answer 9

1954

Segregated schools in District of Columbia violate 5th amendment

Question 10

Sarah Keys v Carolina Coach Company

Answer 10

1955

Bans segregation on buses traveling across state lines

Question 11

Browder v. Gayle

Answer 11

1956

Bus segregation under the Equal Protection Clause

Question 12

Gomillion v Lightfood

Answer 12

1960

Electoral district boundaries drawn only to disenfranchise blacks violate the 15th amendment

Question 13

Boynton v. Virginia

Answer 13

1960

Racial segregation in all forms of public transport is illegal

Question 14

Garner v Lousiana

Answer 14

1961
Peaceful sit-in demonstrations protesting segregationist polices cannot be arrested under a state’s disturbing the peace laws

Question 15

Loving v. Virginia

Answer 15

1967

Laws that prohibit interracial marriage are prohibited

Question 16

Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co

Answer 16

1968

Federal government may prohibit discrimination in housing by private parties

Question 17

Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

Answer 17

1971

Busing of students to promote racial integration in public schoos is constitutional

Question 18

Gates v. Collier

Answer 18

1974
End of trusty system and inmate abuse at Mississippi State Pen.
Abolished racial segregation in Prisons

Question 19

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Answer 19

1978

Race-based set-asides in educational opportunities violate the Equal protection Clause

Question 20

Batson v Kentucky

Answer 20

1986

Prosecutors may not use prempetory challenges to dismiss jurors based on their race

Question 21

Adarand Construction Inc v. Pena

Answer 21

1995

Race based discrimination including discriminaitn in favor of minorities must pass strict scrutiny

Question 22

Grutter v. Bollinger

Answer 22

Narrow tailored use of race in student admission decisions may be permissible under Equal Protection Clase

Question 23

Schuette v. Coalition to Defend affirmative Action

Answer 23

2014

bans on affirmation action do not violate the Equal protection clause