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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sputnik
Booker T. Washington
14th Amendment
2. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Double V Campaign
Fidel Castro
Rosa Parks
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3. 1860 - 1865
Reconstruction
Civil War
21st Amendment
Ronald Reagan
4. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Dust Bowl
Clarence Darrow
15th Amendment
5. The right to a fast and public trial.
Dust Bowl
Separation of Powers
6th Amendment
Federalism
6. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
FDIC
18th Amendment
26th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
7. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
3rd Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Industrialization
8. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Tenements
The Little Rock Nine
The Jazz Age
The Scopes Trial
9. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Segregation
Domino Theory
Bracero Program
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
10. Early rock n ' roll performer
Homestead Act
Malcolm X
Imperialism
Elvis Presley
11. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Thomas Jefferson
WPA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19thAmendment
12. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Prohibition
Social Darwinism
The Baby Boom
13. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Watergate
Warren G. Harding
Ronald Reagan
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
14. 1914 - 1918
Populism
Dust Bowl
World War I
8th Amendment
15. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Federalist Papers
Double V Campaign
Berlin Wall
16. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Viet Nam
Plessy v. Ferguson
The War on Poverty
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
17. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
Brown v. Board of Education
Great Compromise
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
18. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Cattle Drives
Andrew Carnegie
Calvin Coolidge
Cesar Chavez
19. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bracero Program
22nd Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
20. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Susan B. Anthony
Upton Sinclair
John F. Kennedy
21. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
14th Amendment
Industrialization
Neil Armstrong
The War on Poverty
22. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Reconstruction
15th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
23. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
League of Nations
Calvin Coolidge
Richard M. Nixon
Thomas Paine
24. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
7th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Booker T. Washington
Richard M. Nixon
25. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Rosenberg's
Korean War
26. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The Baby Boom
Fidel Castro
The New Deal
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
27. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Checks and Balances
The Little Rock Nine
8th Amendment
28. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
6th Amendment
George Washington
Hoovervilles
29. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Segregation
The New Deal
Muckrakers
WEB DuBois
30. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Homestead Act
Benjamin Franklin
6th Amendment
31. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Rough Riders
Spanish - American War
32. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Malcolm X
Flappers
Miranda v. Arizona
33. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Miranda v. Arizona
The Baby Boom
Lyndon B. Johnson
34. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Bracero Program
14th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
35. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Barbed wire
Muckrakers
Douglas MacArthur
Escobedo v. Illinois
36. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Thomas Paine
Columbian Exchange
Escobedo v. Illinois
Checks and Balances
37. Communist leader of Cuba.
Upton Sinclair
Fidel Castro
Industrialization
George Washington
38. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
Bill of Rights
The Harlem Renaissance
FDIC
39. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Flappers
3rd Amendment
Booker T. Washington
The Great Migration
40. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Columbian Exchange
Omar Bradley
The War on Poverty
Truman Doctrine (1947)
41. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Neil Armstrong
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
William 'Boss' Tweed
Samuel Adams
42. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Political machines
Thomas Jefferson
Trench Warfare
Joe McCarthy
43. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Viet Nam
Barbed wire
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
44. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Reconstruction
Teapot Dome Scandal
22nd Amendment
45. The right to vote for women.
Warren G. Harding
Urbanization
Lyndon B. Johnson
19thAmendment
46. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Cesar Chavez
Rough Riders
Dust Bowl
Jonas Salk
47. 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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48. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
Separation of Powers
Gideon v. Wainwright
Charles Lindbergh
49. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
4th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Bracero Program
50. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Barbed wire
Flappers
Nikita Kruschev
FDIC