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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Competition between European countries to create empires.
19thAmendment
Bobby Kennedy
Imperialism
Truman Doctrine (1947)
2. American painter from 1920's
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3. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Woodrow Wilson
Checks and Balances
Baker v. Carr
John Scopes
4. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Federalist Papers
Korean War
Abraham Lincoln
Gideon v. Wainwright
5. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
The New Deal
WEB DuBois
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FDIC
6. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Normandy
Battle of Wounded Knee
John J. Pershing
7. 1939 - 1945
Yellow Journalism
World War II
4th Amendment
Trench Warfare
8. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
League of Nations
Reynolds v. Sims
Cattle Drives
Plessy v. Ferguson
9. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Andrew Carnegie
GI Bill
Berlin Wall
10. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
WEB DuBois
Reconstruction
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Social Darwinism
11. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Urbanization
William H. Taft
Cuban Missile Crisis
Neil Armstrong
12. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
16th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Domino Theory
Medger Evers
13. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
U-2 Incident
Nullification Crisis
The Baby Boom
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
14. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
7th Amendment
Immigration
Cuban Missile Crisis
15. The prohibition of alcohol.
Cattle Drives
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
13th Amendment
18th Amendment
16. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
15th Amendment
21st Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
17. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Bill of Rights
The War on Poverty
George Washington
18. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Spanish - American War
Free Enterprise Economy
Domino Theory
Plessy v. Ferguson
19. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Reynolds v. Sims
Benjamin Franklin
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Checks and Balances
20. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
The Rosenberg's
Bracero Program
WPA
court packing
21. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
Containment
15th Amendment
Double V Campaign
22. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Jonas Salk
Omar Bradley
Battle of Wounded Knee
Thomas Paine
23. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Miranda v. Arizona
The New Deal
Containment
NATO (1959)
24. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
19thAmendment
Korean War
Barbed wire
25. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
The Little Rock Nine
Joe McCarthy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Teapot Dome Scandal
26. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Dust Bowl
21st Amendment
WEB DuBois
Douglas MacArthur
27. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Teapot Dome Scandal
Homestead Act
Hoovervilles
George Wallace
28. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Homestead Act
Dust Bowl
WEB DuBois
Omar Bradley
29. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Andrew Carnegie
court packing
Battle of Wounded Knee
Federalist Papers
30. Founding father - politician - scientist
The Holocaust
Benjamin Franklin
Brown v. Board of Education
Bracero Program
31. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
10th Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
Domino Theory
Fourteen Points
32. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Watergate
Red Scare
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Spanish - American War
33. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Segregation
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Miranda v. Arizona
34. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Immigration
Viet Nam
Treaty of Versailles
35. President 1980-88.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Columbian Exchange
Ronald Reagan
Industrialization
36. Powers reserved to the states
7th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
Columbian Exchange
10th Amendment
37. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Pearl Harbor
Miranda v. Arizona
Joe McCarthy
Berlin Airlift
38. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Cuban Missile Crisis
SEC
The New Deal
Henry Ford
39. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Domino Theory
Immigration
Sputnik
Social Darwinism
40. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
2nd Amendment
Battle of Midway
Susan B. Anthony
Benjamin Franklin
41. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Bay of Pigs
WEB DuBois
Elvis Presley
Dawes Act
42. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Checks and Balances
8th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Great Compromise
43. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Fidel Castro
Dawes Act
Jim Crow laws
Tenements
44. Abolished the poll tax.
Nullification Crisis
Pearl Harbor
John J. Pershing
24th Amendment
45. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
The Great Migration
Homestead Act
Jonas Salk
Douglas MacArthur
46. Alternate term for 1920's.
Containment
Woodrow Wilson
The Jazz Age
Joe McCarthy
47. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
Great Society
Martin Luther King Jr
Charles Lindbergh
48. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Bobby Kennedy
49. 1860 - 1865
The New Deal
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Normandy
Civil War
50. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Abraham Lincoln
Pearl Harbor
The Harlem Renaissance
15th Amendment