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Supreme Court
Court cases for VA/US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Case where the Supreme Court declared that it had the power of Judicial Review | Marbury v. Madison |
| Power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional | Judicial Review |
| Court ruled that states could not tax agencies of the federal government | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools were not equal and had to desegregate | Brown v. Board of Education |
| Policy of the US government during World War II that was upheld by the Supreme Court | Japanese Internment |
| Lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education decision before the Supreme Court | Thurgood Marshall |
| NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown case in the state of Virginia | Oliver Hill |
| First woman who served as a Justice on the Supreme Court | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Early Chief Justice of the Supreme Court whose rulings tended to increase the power of the federal government | John Marshall |