SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
TAKS 11th Grade Us History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
taks
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Plessy v. Ferguson
Emancipation Proclamation
Andrew Carnegie
2. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Pearl Harbor
26th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Marshall Plan (1948)
3. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
21st Amendment
Watergate
Elvis Presley
John Scopes
4. United Farm Workers activist
Elvis Presley
Cesar Chavez
Muckrakers
Red Scare
5. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Abraham Lincoln
WEB DuBois
Urbanization
Double V Campaign
6. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Fidel Castro
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Plessy v. Ferguson
Transcontinental railroad
7. No unlawful search and seizure.
The Jazz Age
4th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
WEB DuBois
8. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
SEC
Federalism
Teapot Dome Scandal
2nd Amendment
9. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Muckrakers
Immigration
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
10. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
John J. Pershing
1st Amendment
Omar Bradley
William H. Taft
11. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
8th Amendment
Civil War
Bill of Rights
Hoovervilles
12. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gloria Steinem
The Little Rock Nine
William H. Taft
13. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Containment
Cattle Drives
26th Amendment
Segregation
14. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Homestead Act
26th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
15. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
14th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
Gideon v. Wainwright
Hoovervilles
16. Abolished slavery
Bobby Kennedy
Treaty of Versailles
Spanish - American War
13th Amendment
17. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
17th Amendment
Industrialization
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
George Wallace
18. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Elvis Presley
Clarence Darrow
The Baby Boom
Charles Lindbergh
19. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bracero Program
Neil Armstrong
Federalism
20. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Jim Crow laws
Fidel Castro
Sacco and Vanzetti
Theodore Roosevelt
21. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
League of Nations
Nullification Crisis
3rd Amendment
Political machines
22. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Imperialism
Barbed wire
Laissez Faire
Reconstruction
23. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Elvis Presley
21st Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Bay of Pigs
24. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Social Darwinism
GI Bill
21st Amendment
Cesar Chavez
25. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Susan B. Anthony
Ronald Reagan
Jacob Riis
Barbed wire
26. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Federalist Papers
16th Amendment
Medger Evers
Spanish - American War
27. President 1961-63
Cattle Drives
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
FDIC
28. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Double V Campaign
Political machines
William Jennings Bryan
The Scopes Trial
29. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Double V Campaign
Warren G. Harding
Miranda v. Arizona
30. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Cattle Drives
Charles Lindbergh
Manifest Destiny
Viet Nam
31. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
World War II
Korean War
King George III
Georgia O'Keefe
32. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Industrialization
Laissez Faire
FDIC
Sacco and Vanzetti
33. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
William H. Taft
Treaty of Versailles
Great Compromise
Jonas Salk
34. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Fidel Castro
Normandy
The Great Migration
Sacco and Vanzetti
35. Communist leader of Cuba.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Fidel Castro
Populism
Great Compromise
36. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Scopes Trial
Barbed wire
Neil Armstrong
The Harlem Renaissance
37. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
5th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
Transcontinental railroad
38. Abolished the poll tax.
Bay of Pigs
Imperialism
Jacob Riis
24th Amendment
39. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Checks and Balances
Warren G. Harding
The Jazz Age
40. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Normandy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
U.S.S. Maine
The Jazz Age
41. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
24th Amendment
George Wallace
Treaty of Versailles
John J. Pershing
42. 1860 - 1865
Plessy v. Ferguson
Free Enterprise Economy
Civil War
League of Nations
43. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Island hopping
Thomas Jefferson
Double V Campaign
44. Trial by jury.
Warren G. Harding
7th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
League of Nations
45. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
World War I
Douglas MacArthur
Bobby Kennedy
46. Early rock n ' roll performer
Hoovervilles
Double V Campaign
Bill of Rights
Elvis Presley
47. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Cesar Chavez
Booker T. Washington
Brown v. Board of Education
Normandy
48. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Treaty of Versailles
Sputnik
Dust Bowl
Upton Sinclair
49. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Thomas Paine
Double V Campaign
GI Bill
Checks and Balances
50. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
Bobby Kennedy
William 'Boss' Tweed