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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
Medger Evers
Berlin Wall
George Wallace
2. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
George Washington
Homestead Act
Sputnik
Alfred Thayer Mahan
3. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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4. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Trench Warfare
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Berlin Wall
Martin Luther King Jr
5. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
Barbed wire
Jonas Salk
Political machines
6. The direct election of US Senators.
Spanish - American War
17th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Gloria Steinem
7. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Jacob Riis
Samuel Adams
Industrialization
Reynolds v. Sims
8. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
3rd Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Manifest Destiny
13th Amendment
9. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The War on Poverty
The Scopes Trial
Abraham Lincoln
24th Amendment
10. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Great Compromise
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Battle of Wounded Knee
11. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Great Society
Fourteen Points
Brown v. Board of Education
Reconstruction
12. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
The Little Rock Nine
Segregation
Cuban Missile Crisis
13. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Booker T. Washington
George Wallace
The Harlem Renaissance
The Great Migration
14. 1914 - 1918
The Baby Boom
World War I
NATO (1959)
Battle of Wounded Knee
15. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
WEB DuBois
Dawes Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
16. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
U-2 Incident
Dwight D. Eisenhower
17. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Immigration
Bay of Pigs
World War I
Benjamin Franklin
18. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Georgia O'Keefe
Checks and Balances
World War I
Dawes Act
19. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Double V Campaign
Harry S. Truman
Henry Ford
15th Amendment
20. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Malcolm X
League of Nations
NATO (1959)
Berlin Airlift
21. Abolished slavery
Populism
SEC
13th Amendment
The Holocaust
22. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
22nd Amendment
WEB DuBois
23. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Federalist Papers
Georgia O'Keefe
14th Amendment
Rosa Parks
24. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
9th Amendment
League of Nations
Martin Luther King Jr
25. 1860 - 1865
Hoovervilles
Immigration
Civil War
Berlin Airlift
26. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
GI Bill
Reynolds v. Sims
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Scopes Trial
27. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Baker v. Carr
4th Amendment
28. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Calvin Coolidge
1st Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
29. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Gloria Steinem
World War II
William H. Taft
Dust Bowl
30. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
21st Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Fidel Castro
King George III
31. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Medger Evers
Political machines
WEB DuBois
Rosa Parks
32. Progressive president who served during WW I.
FDIC
Battle of Midway
Charles Lindbergh
Woodrow Wilson
33. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
William Jennings Bryan
Douglas MacArthur
Great Society
34. President 1963-68
Fourteen Points
Martin Luther King Jr
Lyndon B. Johnson
Muckrakers
35. Separation by race.
Jim Crow laws
Segregation
GI Bill
Joe McCarthy
36. No quartering of troops during peace time
Susan B. Anthony
Federalism
Transcontinental railroad
3rd Amendment
37. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Political machines
Gloria Steinem
Fourteen Points
Rough Riders
38. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
1st Amendment
Fourteen Points
Sputnik
39. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
The New Deal
Bill of Rights
Shirley Chisholm
John Scopes
40. 1939 - 1945
Island hopping
World War II
Fidel Castro
Barbed wire
41. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Jacob Riis
GI Bill
21st Amendment
Domino Theory
42. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Imperialism
The Little Rock Nine
Baker v. Carr
8th Amendment
43. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Pearl Harbor
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Benjamin Franklin
44. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Command Economy
Great Society
Berlin Wall
Laissez Faire
45. The prohibition of alcohol.
Red Scare
18th Amendment
Bracero Program
The Great Migration
46. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
Baker v. Carr
GI Bill
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
47. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Richard M. Nixon
court packing
Baker v. Carr
48. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Calvin Coolidge
NATO (1959)
Social Darwinism
Pearl Harbor
49. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
U.S.S. Maine
Trench Warfare
WEB DuBois
Containment
50. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Neil Armstrong
Immigration
Social Darwinism
Teapot Dome Scandal