UNIT 3 TEST REVIEW – Civil Liberties
& Civil Rights
Anything from our readings, the textbook, or from class is fair game for the test.
To prepare for the test you should look over your class notes, read any handouts or
readings, reread the chapters from the textbook, confer with your classmates, watch
any videos and view any links from class, and study the following.
Define the following terms
1. Establishment Clause
2. Free Exercise Clause
3. Freedom of Petition (going
against government action in
peaceful manner)
4. Clear and present danger
doctrine
5. Fighting words
6. Freedom of the Press
7. Freedom of Assembly
8. Lemon Test
9. Writ of Habeas Corpus
10. Ex post facto law
11. Selective incorporation
12. Non-protected speech
13. Prior restraint
14. Libel
15. Obscenity
16. Eminent domain
17. Poll tax
18. Commerce Clause
19. Jim Crow laws
20. Segregation
21. Civil Rights Act of 1964
22. Title IX of the Education
Amendments Act of 1972
23. Voting Rights Act of 1965
24. Executive privilege
25. Due Process
26. 13th Amendment
27. 14th Amendment
28. 15th Amendment
29. Equality of opportunity
30. Equality of results
31. Affirmative action
32. Civil rights movement
33. Equal protection clause
34. Privacy rights
35. Regulatory taking
36. Miranda rights
37. Separate but equal
38. Bill of attainder
39. Exclusionary rule
40. Double jeopardy
41. Majority-minority districts
42. Letter From Birmingham Jail
Answer the following questions
1. Explain the constitutional basis for selective incorporation. If the Supreme Court
believes that most of the Bill of Rights applies to the states, why did it take a
piecemeal approach that applied one right at a time to the states instead of one
blanket landmark decision?
2. What public funds can go to parochial (religious) schools?
3. How did the Burger Court define obscenity?
4. Is flag burning illegal?
5. Explain whether polygamy is protected by The First Amendment.
6. What is the difference between the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment
Clause?
7. Is the term "separation of Church and State" in the First Amendment?
8. Can a public school have a Bible study?
9. What clause of the constitution has the Congress used to regulate discrimination?
10. What were some ways that whites subordinated Black political power after the Civil
War?
11. What laws did Congress pass to regulate discrimination?
12. Describe some Supreme Court rulings that help expand the rights of those accused
of crimes.
13. Can laws change opinion and behavior?
14. Discuss the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of results.
15. In what way does the Constitution regulate equality?
16. Evaluate the legality of affirmative action by explaining recent Supreme Court rulings
regarding affirmative action.
17. What exceptions are there to the general rule against warrantless searches?
18. Explain how the federal government has expanded power regarding civil rights
throughout the 20th century.
19. Describe and analyze the expanding role of the government in combating
discrimination and expanding economic equality.
20. Identify three Supreme Court cases and explain how they have expanded privacy
rights.
21. Describe and analyze the expanding role of the government in combating
discrimination and expanding economic equality.
22. Describe the state of our Fourth Amendment rights since 9/11.
Review your FIHRRs for the following cases
You need to be familiar with the facts and reasoning for each case, but most importantly
be able to use and apply the legal precedent (rule) that the case set.
 Engel v. Vitale
 Wisconsin v. Yoder
 Tinker v. Des Moines
 Schenck v. United States
 New York Times v. U.S.
 McDonald v. Chicago
 Gideon v. Wainwright
 Roe v. Wade
 Brown v. Board of Education
Other important cases
You don't need as much detail for these, but should know what principle each case
stands for.
 Miranda v Arizona
 Heart of Atlanta Motel v US
 Mapp v Ohio
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Plessy v Ferguson
California v Bakke
Texas v Johnson
Lemon v Kurtzman
Griswold v Connecticut
Bill of Rights
Match the freedom/right to the amendment
Freedom of speech
Freedom from unreasonable searches
and seizures
Freedom from double jeopardy
Freedom of religion
Freedom from cruel and unusual
punishments
Right to due process
Freedom from self-incrimination
Freedom of press
Right to a speedy and public trial
Rights of the people not limited to
enumerated rights
Freedom to petition the government
Right to jury trial in criminal cases
Right to keep and bear arms
Freedom from quartering soldiers
Right to assistance of counsel
Right to trial by jury in civil cases
Freedom from excessive bail
Freedom of assembly
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B.
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D.
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F.
G.
H.
I.
1st amendment
2nd amendment
3rd amendment
4th amendment
5th amendment
6th amendment
7th amendment
8th amendment
9th amendment