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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH
COURT CASES EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -20 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- Explanation
Question 1: Commonwealth v. Hunt
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(1842 Taney) Labor Unions lawful organizations and strikes legal
Question 2: Gibbons v. Ogden
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(1824 Marshall) Clarified commerce clause, Congressional power over interstate commerce
Question 3: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
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(1831 Marchall) Trust relationship of NA tribes under fed authority
Question 4: Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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(1819 Marshall) upholds sanctity of contracts
Question 5: Northern Securities Co. v. US
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(1904) Re-established Sherman anti-trust authority of federal gov.
Question 6: Brown v. Board of Ed. Topeka, Kansas
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(1954 Warren) declaring "seperate but equal" unconstitutional
Question 7: U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co.
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(1895) Due to narrow interpretation of Sherman Anti-Trust Act, court undermined authority of federal government.
Question 8: Scott v. Sanford
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(1857 Taney) Dred Scott an escaped slave-ruled not a citizen- had returned to Missouri but was captured. Congress no power to declare territory slave, voided Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Question 9: Schenck v. US
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(1919) Upheld Espionage Act of 1917, freedom of speech not absolute
Question 10: Escobedo v. Illinois
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(1964) defendant must be allowed access to a lawyer before questioning
Question 11: Schechter v. US
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(1936) "the sick chicken case", declared National Industrial Recovery Act (part of FDR's New Deal) unconstitutional
Question 12: Roe v. Wade
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(1973) legalized abortion during first three months of pregnancy
Question 13: US v. Richard Nixon
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(1974) rejected Nixon's claim to absolute privilege against judicial process
Question 14: Marbury v. Madison
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(1803 Marshall) Established constitutionality of judicial review.
Question 15: Miranda v. Arizona
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(1966) if subjected to in-custody interrogation be advised of right of an attorney and right to remain silent
Question 16: Korematsu v. US
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(1941) upheld detention camps for Japanese-Americans during WW II
Question 17: Gideon v. Wainwright
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(1963) allows defendant right of counsel regardless of their ability to pay
Question 18: McCulloch v. Maryland
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(1819 Marshall) States cannot tax fed. gov. (Bank of US constitutional)
Question 19: Plessy v. Ferguson
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(1896) Legalized Segregation in publicly owned facilities on basis of "separate but equal"
Question 20: Lochner v. New York
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(1905) Declared unconstitutional a New York Act limiting working hours of bakers due to denial of 14th Amendment Rights
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