Unit 5
Chapter 5 - True/False Questions:
1) In Gitlow v. New York, the Supreme Court used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply the First
Amendment protection of freedom of speech to the states.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 156-157
2) In Gitlow v. New York, the United States Supreme Court ruled that states cannot infringe on a
citizen’s freedom of speech.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 156-157
3) The incorporation doctrine is a principle used to limit the powers of the national government
in the realm of civil rights and liberties.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 156
4) The establishment clause prohibits the national government from establishing a national
religion and is found in the First Amendment.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 158
5) In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has been more likely to allow the mingling of church
and state.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Synthesis
Page reference: 159
6) Recent Supreme Court decisions have strengthened the “wall of separation” between church
and state.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Synthesis
Page reference: 159
7) The Court first ruled that a prayer recited in public school was unconstitutional in Engel v.
Vitale.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 159
8) At times, the Supreme Court allows the use of hallucinogenic drugs for use in religious
observances.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 160
9) The Supreme Court has ruled that burning the American flag is a protected form of symbolic
speech.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 164
10) Two-thirds of colleges and universities ban some forms of speech or related conduct.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 166
11) The first Supreme Court case dealing with symbolic speech was Stromberg v. California.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 164
12) According to the First Amendment, government cannot prevent speech based on its content.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 164
13) The Supreme Court has ruled that public universities can use mandatory student fees to fund
student groups that may be unpopular with some students.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 165
14) In New York Times v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government could
prevent the publication of papers that painted the government in a negative light.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 164
15) In New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), the Supreme Court made it extremely difficult for a
public figure to win a libel suit.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Synthesis
Page reference: 166-167
16) The right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Third Amendment.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 169
17) The Supreme Court has ruled that police do not need a search warrant to search a person
being arrested.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 171
18) Police officers do not need a warrant if they have consent to search.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 171
19) The Fourth Amendment's purpose was to deny the national government the authority to
conduct general searches.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 170
20) The police can search anyone who willingly gives consent to be searched.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 170-172
21) The prohibition against double jeopardy prevents the government from retrying someone
who has been acquitted, even if compelling new evidence comes to light after the trail is
over.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 172-173
22) The exclusionary rule was adopted in the case of Miranda v. Arizona.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 173
23) If new evidence comes to light after the accused has been acquitted, the courts can order a
new trial if the recently discovered evidence is sufficiently compelling.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 174
24) The Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to counsel.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 174
25) The Supreme Court has determined that mentally retarded convicts are eligible for the death
penalty if they received a fair and public trial.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 177
26) Over 100 people have been released from death row due to the results of DNA tests.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 177
27) Capital punishment is banned in all Western democracies.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 178-179
28) In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that women have an absolute right to an abortion in
the first trimester.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 182
29) The right to privacy prevents states from criminalizing private sexual behavior between
consenting adults.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 185
Chapter 6 - True/False Questions:
1) The Constitution was silent on the issue of equality until the addition of the Civil War
Amendments.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 198
2) The first meeting for women’s rights was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 196
3) The Missouri Compromise of 1820 eliminated tensions over slavery.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 195-196
4) The Thirteenth Amendment bans slavery.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 197
5) Most of the former Confederate states passed Black Codes to restrict opportunities for newly
freed slaves.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 197
6) Slavery was a major cause of the Civil War.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 197
7) Jim Crow laws were abolished immediately following the Civil War.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 199
8) The doctrine of “separate but equal” was promulgated by the Civil Rights Cases (1883).
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 199
9) Federal occupation of the South following the Civil War ended in 1877.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 199
10) The Nineteenth Amendment guarantees women the right to vote.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 202
11) Women were granted the right to vote at the same time as African Americans.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 202
12) Brown v. Board of Education was the most important women’s rights case in the twentieth
century.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 204
13) Brown v. Board of Education is considered by many to be the most important civil rights
case of the twentieth century.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Evaluation
Page reference: 205
14) The Montgomery Bus boycotts were started by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when he refused
to give up his seat on a public bus to a white woman.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 206
15) The Montgomery bus boycott was the first successful nonviolent protest for civil rights.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Synthesis
Page reference: 206
16) Freedom rides were unsuccessful attempts to promote school bussing.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 207
17) De jure discrimination has largely been eliminated in the United States.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 210
18) The Twenty-seventh Amendment guarantees equal rights for women.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 202
19) The wage gap between men and women has shrunk in the past four decades to the point
where it is barely perceptible.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 215
20) Litigation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act has determined that sexual harassment is a
type of sex discrimination.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 215
21) American Indians have recovered some hunting, fishing, and land rights.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 220
22) The establishment of casinos by Native Americans has given them greater political clout.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 220
23) Native Americans are prohibited from running for office since they are technically not U.S.
citizens.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 220-221
24) All gays and lesbians are barred from military service.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 223-225
25) In Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court determined that the state of Texas can prohibit
consensual sodomy.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 224