Supreme Court Cases
Working Within the Rules of Government
Types of Government
Government
Working Outside the Rules of Government and Individual Rights
100
Which amendment gave former slaves the rights of citizens and guarantees equal protection of the laws?
What is the 14th amendment.
100
In what form of government should the people participate in their local religious institution to influence the leader?
What is a theocracy.
100
What is the Divine Right to rule?
What is rule that was given by God to a monarch.
100
Which form of government has a ruler through divine right?
What is an absolute monarchy.
100
What is the violent option to overthrow a government?
What is revolution.
200
Which Supreme Court case declared segregation "separate but equal?"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson.
200
Which type of government uses a council of ministers to hear the people's opinions or grievances?
What is an absolute monarch.
200
Which type of democracy do the citizens vote directly on an issue?
What is direct democracy.
200
What is a representative democracy?
What is when the people elect representatives into the government to make decisions.
200
What is Social Protest?
What is the demands for change by certain groups.
300
What Supreme Court case established affirmative action programs?
What is University of California v. Bakke.
300
What type of government has freedom of speech, assembly, and the press?
What is parliamentary and presidential democracies.
300
In which government system does a single person rule through force?
What is a dictatorship.
300
Which type of democracy has a separation of powers between the legislature and the chief executive?
What is a Presidential Democracy.
300
What is libel and slander?
What is slander is spoken lies and libel is written lies; both are used to deliberately cause harm to an individual.
400
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What are laws that legally segregated the South.
400
What is the best way to influence a dictator?
What is by joining their political party.
400
Which form of government shares power with the monarch and an elected legislature?
What is a constitutional monarchy.
400
How does a monarch gain power?
What is through inheritance.
400
When is freedom of speech and of the press limited?
What is when national security is important and when it could cause mass panic.
500
What Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and desegregated the South?
What is Brown v. Board of Education.
500
In what type of monarchy can the people vote for parliament?
What is a constitutional monarchy.
500
Which form of government has religious leader?
What is a theocracy.
500
Which type of democracy has a Prime Minister?
What is a Parliamentary Democracy.
500
What is when an individual believes a government law is unjust and their conscience prevents obedience of that law?
What is civil disobedience.
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