Unit 3 Review

Question 1

Miranda Rights

Answer 1

Miranda v. Arizona, right to remain silent

Question 2

Establishment clause

Answer 2

1st amendment: gov. cannot promote a religion

Question 3

Free exercise clause

Answer 3

1st amendment: people have a right to religion

Question 4

Habeas corpus

Answer 4

Protects against unlawful imprisonment, must be brought to court

Question 5

Prior restraint

Answer 5

Government censorship

Question 6

Ex post facto laws

Answer 6

Cannot punish somebody for something when it was legal in the past

Question 7

Bills of attainder

Answer 7

Punishment without trial, unconstitutional

Question 8

Obscenity and fighting words

Answer 8

Unprotected speech

Question 9

Hate speech

Answer 9

Protected speech (not a threat)

Question 10

Symbolic speech

Answer 10

1st amendment: art, burning flag, etc

Question 11

Women’s suffrage movement

Answer 11

Protests in support of women’s right to vote

Question 12

Orval Faubus

Answer 12

Governor of Arkansas, blocked integrating of public school

Question 13

March on Washington

Answer 13

March for civil rights, MLK’s “I have a dream speech” (August 28,1963)

Question 14

Korematsu v. U.S.

Answer 14

Upheld the internment camps for Japanese americans

Question 15

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 15

Abolitionist, wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Question 16

Exclusionary rule

Answer 16

Cannot use illegally obtained evidence in court

Question 17

Grand jury

Answer 17

Group of citizens who decide if someone goes on trial

Question 18

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Answer 18

Ended sex discrimination (not passed)

Question 19

Espionage Act

Answer 19

Prohibited activities that were disloyal (wartime)

Question 20

Lawrence v. Texas

Answer 20

Cannot punish gay sex!

Question 21

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 21

Separate but equal

Question 22

Barron v. Baltimore

Answer 22

Bill of rights doesn’t apply to the states

Question 23

Lemon test

Answer 23

Tests for the establishment of a religion (1- secular purpose, 2- no advancement or prohibit of a religion, 3- no gov. entanglement)

Question 24

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 24

Black people are not citizens

Question 25

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 25

Legal racial segregation

Question 26

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Answer 26

Freedom of religion, Amish family

Question 27

Slander and libel

Answer 27

Defamation

Question 28

Separate but equal

Answer 28

Doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 29

Review standards of law

Answer 29

Strict scrutiny (race), intermediate scrutiny (gender), rational basis (age)

Question 30

NAACP

Answer 30

Interest Group: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 31

Black codes

Answer 31

Enforced segregation and discrimination

Question 32

Dawes Act

Answer 32

Creates divisions of land for natives

Question 33

Brown v. Board

Answer 33

Separate is inherently unequal

Question 34

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Answer 34

Military policy for gay people

Question 35

Rosa Parks

Answer 35

Civil rights activist, boycott bus system

Question 36

Selective incorporation

Answer 36

Case-by-case incorporation of the bill of rights to the states

Question 37

Affirmative action

Answer 37

Gov. benefits to help a previously discriminated against group

Question 38

Griswold v. Connecticut

Answer 38

Allowed married couples to use birth control

Question 39

Poll taxes

Answer 39

Scared away black voters

Question 40

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 40

First meeting for women’s rights

Question 41

Title IX

Answer 41

Prohibits sex based discrimination in school