Unit 2 Review
1. What is the final interpreter of the content and the scope of Americans’ civil liberties?
2. The Bill of Rights was adopted primarily in response to?
3. In case of _______________, the Supreme Court ruled that the Bill of Rights restrained only the
national government , not cities and states
4. The incorporation doctrine involves
5. Following the Civil War , the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was
designed to overturn the
6. Which of the following is one of the central concerns of the First Amendment?
7. The “wall of separation “ doctrine refers to the
8. In Miranda v. Arizona , the United States Supreme Court declared that
9. The Supreme Court established the incorporation doctrine when the court
10. The 1973 decision that upheld a woman’s right to secure an abortion was based on the right to
11. ______________ did the most to expand civil rights in the 1950s
12. Which of the following is true about the right of free speech, as currently interpreted by the
Supreme Court?
13. Discrimination in a public accommodation was made illegal in the United States as direct result
of the ___________
14. Most of the individual protections of the Bill of Rights now apply to the states because of the
Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution’s __________.
15. Decisions reached by the Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren
91953-1969) did all of the following EXCEPT
16. The “ Miranda warning “ represents an attempt to protect criminal suspects against
17. The establishment clause in the First Amendment does which of the following?
18. Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade are similar Supreme Court cases in that both cases are
based on
19. In Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) , the Supreme Court ruled that
20. In what case sis the Supreme Court rule that a newspaper, no matter how outrageous its
opinions, must be allowed to publish without prior restraint?
21. In the case of __________ , the Supreme Court ruled that requiring an organization to turn over
its membership lists was an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of association .
22. The fifth amendment forbids
23. Where is the right to privacy found in the Constitution?
24. One of the most regulated forms of speech is
25. The Twenty Fourth Amendment , ratified in 1964 ,
26. The ____ Amendment , adopted in 1870 guaranteed the right of African Americans to vote , at
least in principle
27. The _____ gave women the constitutional right to vote .
28. “coverture”
29. The Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. United States 9 1944)
30. The white primary
31. One consequence of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was
32. The Equal Rights Amendment failed because
33. The ____ banned sex discrimination in employment by law
34. “Comparable Worth “ refers to the issue of
35. The goal of affirmative action is to move towards
36. In 1990 , congress enacted the ____________, a far – reaching law to protect a particular group
of Americans from discrimination , ignoring those who claimed the price tag would be too high.