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Grade 11 Supreme Court Cases
The Supreme Court's ruling in Marbury v. Madison ensure that
  1. lame-duck presidents could not make last-minute court appointments
  2. the legislature could not interpret the Constitution any way it chose
  3. the judicial branch had an equal role in making laws
  4. presidential appointments could not be based on partisan politics
Grade 10 Supreme Court Cases
What is "judicial review"?
Grade 3 Supreme Court Cases
Who was the first African American to be placed on the Supreme Court?
  1. Thurgood Marshall
  2. Frederick Douglass
  3. Mary Bethune
  4. Martin Luther King Jr.
Grade 4 Supreme Court Cases
There are 9 justices that serve on the Supreme Court.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 7 Supreme Court Cases
Which case established the principle of judicial review at the national level...
  1. Roe vs. Wade
  2. Brown vs. Board of Education
  3. Miranda vs. Madison
  4. Marbury vs. Madison
Grade 10 Supreme Court Cases
The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case
  1. said that limiting slavery in the territories was unconstitutional.
  2. Freed an enslaved man.
Grade 8 Supreme Court Cases
In Dred Scott versus Sandford, the Supreme Court
  1. considered the case of a slave who sued for freedom after his master took him to the free territory of Wisconsin.
  2. ruled against Scott on the basis that a slave was not a citizen and had no rights.
  3. argued that under the Fifth Amendment, Congress had no right to deprive citizens of their property (slaves) anywhere within the US.
  4. all of the above.
Grade 8 Supreme Court Cases
What did the case of Marbury v. Madison establish?
  1. Judicial review
  2. The Supreme Court
  3. Equality
  4. Congress
Grade 8 Supreme Court Cases
In 1819, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of McCullough v. Maryland that
  1. all federal laws must also win the approval of state legislatures.
  2. states had no power to interfere with federal institutions.
  3. the federal government cannot pass a law that violates a state law.
  4. states had the power to levy taxes on federal banks.
Grade 8 Supreme Court Cases
Taxing Federal Banks
  1. Gibbons vs Odgen
  2. Roe vs Wade
  3. McCulloch vs Maryland
  4. Marbury vs Madison
Grade 11 Supreme Court Cases
In stating the principle of a "clear and present danger" in Schneck v. United States, the Supreme Court established that
  1. constitutional rights are not absolute
  2. the Constitution guarantees the right to privacy
  3. all individual rights are eliminated at wartime
Grade 10 Supreme Court Cases
Why did the Dred Scott decision make it more difficult to solve the problem of slavery?
  1. No one liked the Court's decision.
  2. Southerners liked the decision.
  3. The decision said that restricting slavery was unconstitutional.
Grade 8 Supreme Court Cases
What did Dred Scott do that made him famous?
  1. He escaped
  2. He sued the government for his freedom
  3. He was African American
  4. He fought in the Civil War
Grade 8 Supreme Court Cases
Judicial Review
  1. Gibbons vs Odgen
  2. Roe vs Wade
  3. McCulloch vs Maryland
  4. Marbury vs Madison
Grade 12 Supreme Court Cases
Identify the Supreme Court case that upheld the idea of "separate but equal".
  1. Roe v Wade
  2. Korematsu v United States
  3. Plessy v Ferguson
  4. Brown v Board of Education
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