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APUSH Exam Review: Supreme Court Cases
APUSH Exam Review: Supreme Court Cases
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Review of important Supreme Court cases in preparation for the APUSH exam
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1
Which decision overturned Plessy, saying separate facilities are "inherently unequal"?
Korematsu v United States
Williams v Mississippi
Bakke v University of California
Brown v Board of Education
2
What law was made void by the Dred Scott case?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
13th amendment
Crittenden Compromise
Missouri Compromise
3
What case affirmed the right of women to have an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy?
Loving v. Virginia
Griswold v. Connecticut
In re Debs
Roe v. Wade
4
Let's start with some easy questions. How many justices are on the US Supreme Court?
8
10
5
9
5
Which case overturned a New Deal program for violating the separation of powers?
Schechter Poultry v United States
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
Worcester v Georgia
Dartmouth v Woodward
6
Which 1965 case established a right to privacy and paved the way for legalized abortion?
Miranda v Arizona
Bakke v University of California
Griswold v Connecticut
Gideon v Wainwright
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What event led to Korematsu v United States ?
Japanese internment during WW2
Chinese Exclusion Act
Insular Acts
Root Takahira Agreement
8
Which case allowed the federal gov't to make laws regarding Indian tribes?
Worcester v Georgia
Furman v Georgia
Fletcher v Peck
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
9
The case that declared that slaves were property, not citizens, and had no standing to sue
Williams v Mississippi
Brown v Board of Education
Plessy v Ferguson
Dred Scott v Sanford
10
Which case is often referred to as the "steamboat case"?
Commonwealth v Hunt
McCulloch v Maryland
Munn v Illinois
Gibbons v Ogden
11
What principle was clarified in Gibbons v Ogden?
Congress' right to regulate interstate commerce
that federal law overrides state law
legality of labor unions
sanctity of contracts
12
Which case placed wartime limits on freedom of speech?
In re Debs
Korematsu v United States
Miranda v Arizona
Schenck v United States
13
First Jewish justice?
Abe Fortas
William Rehnquist
Louis Brandeis
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
14
Which case declared labor unions and strikes legal?
Commonwealth v Hunt
Worcester v Georgia
Schechter Poultry v. United States
Munn v Illinois
15
SCOTUS firsts: The first female justice was...
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Sandra Day O'Conner
Elena Kagan
Sonia Sotomayor
16
Landmark case of the Marshall court upholding the sanctity of contracts between private parties
Gibbons v Ogden
McCulloch v Maryland
Dartmouth v Woodward
Marbury v Madison
17
Which president proposed adding new justices to the court- aka the "court-packing" scheme?
Jackson
LBJ
FDR
Taft
18
What phrase sums up the decisions made in the "Insular Cases'?
separate but equal is constitutional
The Constitution does not follow the flag
sanctity of contracts
Judicial Review
19
The case that upheld the right of states to regulate businesses for the public good was
Schechter Poultry v United States
Munn v Illinois
Fletcher v Peck
Wabash v Illinois
20
Suspects can't be interrogated before being read their rights, according to this decision
Griswold v Connecticut
Miranda v Arizona
Gideon v Wainwright
Furman v Georgia
21
A state law taxing the 2nd Bank of the US led to this case, which said federal law trumps state
McCulloch v Maryland
Dartmouth v Woodward
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
Marbury v Madison
22
Which case first established the concept of Judicial Review?
Woodward v Dartmouth
Fletcher v Peck
Marbury v Madison
Gibbons v Ogden
23
SCOTUS firsts: Who was the first Chief Justice?
John Hay
John Jay
John Marshall
John Paul Jones
24
This case involving contracts was the first time a state law was declared unconstitutional.
Muller v Oregon
Dartmouth v Woodward
Worcester v Georgia
Fletcher v Peck
25
A case which outlawed quotas in college admissions, but upheld affirmative action
Brown v Board of Education
Fisher v University of Texas
Dartmouth v Woodward
Bakke v University of California
26
Why did many states outlaw the death penalty after the decision in Furman v Georgia?
it led to a constitutional amendment outlawing death penalty
it violated the separation of powers
the death penalty could be cruel & unusual punishment
Nixon had campaigned on ending the death penalty
27
This case protects due process by ensuring a court-appointed lawyer for poor defendants.
Furman v Georgia
Fletcher v Peck
Miranda v Arizona
Gideon v Wainwright
28
Which military conflict led to the "Insular Cases"?
the Spanish-American War
the Civil War
the Mexican War
World War One
29
First African-American justice?
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Clarence Thomas
Thurgood Marshall
Blanche K. Bruce
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This 1896 decision declared that "separate but equal" accommodations were constitutional.
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
Plessy v Ferguson
Dred Scott bv Sanford
Brown v Board of Education
