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9th grade · Social Studies · Unit 4 of 10

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

How the Court reads the Constitution

What your child practices

Landmark decisions from Marbury v. Madison to recent cases, judicial activism and restraint, precedent, and how readings of the Bill of Rights and civil rights have changed, presented factually and from more than one side.

California Content Standards learning standard: 12.5.1; 12.5.2; 12.5.3; 12.5.4 · landmark Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution, judicial activism and restraint, and changing readings of rights

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Miranda v. Arizona (1966) requires police to…

    • tell arrested people their rights
    • skip trials
    • hold people forever
    • search any home

  2. Question 2

    Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) allowed…

    • integration of schools
    • racial segregation under "separate but equal"
    • women to vote
    • child labor laws

  3. Question 3

    Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) held that…

    • marriage is a federal job
    • states may ban all marriages
    • same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry
    • only courts can marry people

  4. Question 4

    How many justices sit on the US Supreme Court?

    • 7
    • 9
    • 12
    • 50

  5. Question 5

    Supreme Court justices serve…

    • for life, during good behavior
    • until age 50
    • four years
    • six years

  6. Question 6

    Why can interpretations of the Bill of Rights change over time?

    • the text is rewritten every year
    • presidents edit it
    • new cases, new facts and new justices lead to new readings
    • it is never read

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