First Amendment
Supreme Court Cases
Government & Media Restrictions
100

This amendment protects speech and press freedoms.

What is the First Amendment?

100

This case established “clear and present danger.”

What is Schenck v. United States?

100

This government department controls military press access.

What is the Pentagon / Department of Defense?

200

Government censorship involves government ______ information.

➡ What is restricting / suppressing / controlling?

200

This case established the “imminent lawless action” test.

What is Brandenburg v. Ohio?

200

Journalists embedded with the military must follow these.

What are ground rules?

300

The government can restrict speech if it creates this type of danger.

What is imminent danger / lawless action?

300

This Supreme Court case limited prior restraint by the government.

What is New York Times Co. v. United States?

300

These can be taken away if journalists break Pentagon rules.

What are press credentials / press passes?

400

This term describes stopping speech before it happens.

What is prior restraint?

400

This analogy is used to justify the suppression of speech in the landmark case Schenk v. U.S

What is yelling fire in a crowded theater.

400

This type of discrimination unfairly targets groups based on their points of view

What is viewpoint discrimination?

500

This standard that puts a limitation on free speech comes from Schenck v. United States.

What is “clear and present danger”?

500

In this 1969 case, the Supreme Court held that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” striking down a school’s ban on black armbands protesting the Vietnam War.

What is Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District?

500

News organizations protested Pentagon rules by doing this.

What is handing in press passes / walking out?