AP U.S. Gov Landmark Supreme Court Cases UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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AP U.S. Gov Landmark Supreme Court
Cases UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Marbury v. Madison (1803) - CORRECT ANSWER- Established the power of judicial
review in finding that a congressional statute extending the Court's original jurisdiction was
unconstitutional (Marshall...
AP U.S. Gov Landmark Supreme Court
Cases UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Marbury v. Madison (1803) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Established the power of judicial
review in finding that a congressional statute extending the Court's original jurisdiction was
unconstitutional (Marshall Court)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Allowed Congress to establish a
national bank via implied powers from the "necessary and proper clause" and stopped
Maryland from taxing the national bank as violation of Supremacy Clause (Marshall Court)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ferry boat case; only Congress is
granted the power to regulate interstate commerce by the Commerce Clause of the
Constitution (Marshall Court)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ruled slaves were not citizens
under the Constitution; struck down Missouri Compromise (Taney Court)
Reynolds v. United States (1879) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Upheld federal ban on
polygamy because it is not protected by the free exercise clause; government can punish
criminal activity without regard to religious belief (Waite Court)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Upheld state-imposed racial
segregation; "separate but equal" doctrine (Fuller Court)
Schenck v. United States (1919) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Upheld the Espionage Act;
declared that 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech was not absolute; free speech could
be limited if its exercise presented a "clear and present danger" (White Court)
Gitlow v. New York (1925) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Court recognized some limits on
free speech, and established the selective incorporation of the Bill of rights (a.k.a.
incorporation doctrine) through the 14th amendment; Bill of Rights can limit the states as
well as the federal government (Taft Court)
, West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnett (1943) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ruled
public school children (Jehovah's witnesses) cannot be compelled to salute the flag or recite
the Pledge; violates 1st Amendment freedom of speech (Stone Court)
Korematsu v. United States (1944) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Upheld the U.S.
government's decision to put Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II
due to a clear and present danger (Stone Court)
Brown v. Board of Education I (1954) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Racial discrimination in
public schools is unconstitutional; segregation psychologically damaging to black children;
overturned "separate but equal" because it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th
Amendment (Warren Court)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Established the exclusionary rule; illegally
obtained evidence cannot be used in court (Warren Court)
Baker v. Carr (1962) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Opened the door to equal protection
challenges to redistricting and the development of the "one person, one vote" doctrine by
ruling that challenges to redistricting did not raise "political questions" that would keep
federal courts from reviewing such challenges
(Warren Court)
Engel v. Vitale (1962) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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)
Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Prohibited school-
sponsored devotional Bible reading in public schools because it violated the establishment
clause and due process clause (Warren Court)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Extended to the defendant the
right of counsel in all state and federal criminal trials regardless of their ability to pay
(Warren Court)
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