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Civic Literacy Test Questions and Answers Already Graded A What is the Supreme law of the land? ✔✔the constitution What does the constitution do? ✔✔it lists the powers of the federal govern... ment The idea of the self-government is in the 1st words of the constitution; what are they? ✔✔we the people What is an amendment? ✔✔a change to the constitution What are the first ten amendments of the constitution called? ✔✔bill of rights What is one right or freedom of the first amendment? ✔✔freedom of speech and press How many amendments does the constitution have? ✔✔27 What did the declaration of independence do? ✔✔claimed independence from Great Britain What are the 3 rights in the declaration of independence? ✔✔life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness What is freedom of religion? ✔✔the right to practice any religion and not be discriminated against for it What is the economy system in the United States? ✔✔mixed economy What is the "rule of law?" ✔✔no one is above the law According to the constitution, what are the requirements to vote? ✔✔be a citizen who is 18 years of age or older What is a civic duty required of U.S. citizens? ✔✔to serve on a jury Name one right for only U.S. citizens ✔✔to vote in the federal elections and to be able to run in an election What is one right of everyone living in the U.S.? ✔✔freedom of speech What is one promise you make when you became a U.S. citizen? ✔✔to obey laws What age can you vote? ✔✔18 One way Americans can participate in democracy ✔✔join a political party Selective service does what? ✔✔Draft men for military What are the 3 branches of government? ✔✔legislative, judicial, and executive What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? ✔✔checks and balances Who's in charge of the executive branch? ✔✔president Who makes national laws? ✔✔congress Two houses of Congress? ✔✔House of Representatives and Senate How many United States senators? ✔✔100 U.S. senators serve for how long? ✔✔6 years How many members are in the House of Representatives? ✔✔435 Members of the House of Representatives serve for how many years? ✔✔2 Who is represented by the U.S. senator? ✔✔all people within their state Why do some states have more representatives than others? ✔✔It is based upon the population of each state The president is elected for how many years? ✔✔4 Who becomes President when they can no longer serve? ✔✔Vice President If the president and Vice President can't serve, who does? ✔✔speaker of the house Commander in chief of the military? ✔✔president Who can sign a bill into law? ✔✔president Who can veto a bill? ✔✔president What is the main job of the president's cabinet? ✔✔Administer agencies of federal law Name a cabinet level position ✔✔Attorney General What is the main job of the judicial branch? ✔✔review laws What is the highest court in the US? ✔✔U.S. Supreme Court How many people serve on the Supreme Court? ✔✔9 Current Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is who? ✔✔John Roberts What power belongs to national government? ✔✔printing money What are the two major political parties in the U.S.? ✔✔Democrat and Republicans Current president is a? ✔✔Republican Current Speaker of the House? ✔✔Paul Ryan Power that belongs only to the states? ✔✔to provide education One of your state U.S. senators? ✔✔Jeff Flake One reason colonists came to America? ✔✔religious freedom Group of people taken to America and sold as slaves? ✔✔Africans Why did colonists fight against the British? ✔✔Colonists wanted self-government Primary author of the declaration of independence? ✔✔Thomas Jefferson Date declaration of independence was signed? ✔✔July 4th, 1776 Which state was one of the original 13th colonies? ✔✔Virginia What happened at the constitutional convention? ✔✔constitution was written What year was the constitutional convention? ✔✔1787 One writer of the federalist papers to support the passage of the constitution? ✔✔Alexander Hamilton the war between the Northern and Southern states? ✔✔Civil War One problem that led to the Civil War? ✔✔Economic Differences Important thing Lincoln did? ✔✔preserved the Union Emancipation Proclamation did what? ✔✔freed slaves in the Confederacy What movement tried to end racial discrimination? ✔✔civil rights movement goal of Martin Luther King Jr.? ✔✔equality Established judicial review; "midnight judges;" John Marshall; power of the Supreme Court. ✔✔Marbury v. Madison (1803) Supreme Court ruling (1819) confirming the supremacy of national over state government; necessary and proper (article one section eight) ✔✔McCulloch v. Maryland unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Brown claimed that Topeka's racial segregation violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because the city's black and white schools were not equal to each other and never could be. Overruled Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine and would eventually led to the desegregation of schools across the South ✔✔Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Court-enforced redistricting based on the principle of "one-person-one-vote" ensured that urban constituencies were represented proportionally equal to rural area constituents ✔✔Baker v. Carr (1961) Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools by virtue of 1st Amendment's establishment clause and the 14th Amendment's due process clause; Warren Court's judicial activism. ✔✔Engel v. Vitale (1962) Ordered states to provide lawyers for those unable to afford them in criminal proceedings. Warren Court's judicial activism in criminal rights; sixth amendment ✔✔Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Public school students may wear armbands to class protesting against America's war in Vietnam when such display does not disrupt classes; first amendment ✔✔Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) The Court ruled that Wisconsin could not require Amish parents to send their children to public school beyond the eighth grade because it would violate long-held religious beliefs; first amendment ✔✔Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) Abortion rights fall within the privacy implied in the 14th amendment ✔✔Roe v. Wade (1973) first amendment rights of student journalists are not violated when school officials prevent the publication of certain articles in school newspaper; principal did not violate rights by prohibiting articles ✔✔Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988) A 2010 landmark Supreme Court case that ruled that individuals, corporations, and unions could donate unlimited amounts of money to groups that make independent political expenditures. ✔✔Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) Incorporated the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms to the states ✔✔McDonald v. Chicago (2010) Separate but equal ✔✔Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that threefifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. ✔✔Three-Fifths Compromise Branch that has the least power ✔✔legistlative Supreme Court ruling on power of the president, holding that no absolute constitutional executive privilege allows a president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce information needed in a criminal trial ✔✔U.S. v. Nixon (1974) 5th Amendment self-incrimination clause requires government agents to warn suspects of their right to remain silent and/or contact an attorney before questioning them when they are in custody. Statements made without Miranda Warning are inadmissible in court (like the exclusionary rule for evidence) ✔✔Miranda v. Arizona (1966) A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules; exchanging liberties for protection ✔✔social contract [Show More]

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