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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
2nd Amendment
26th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
2. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Civil War
court packing
Harry S. Truman
Warren G. Harding
3. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Federalism
Theodore Roosevelt
Bracero Program
Sputnik
4. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Federalist Papers
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Cattle Drives
Escobedo v. Illinois
5. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Dust Bowl
Marshall Plan (1948)
Bobby Kennedy
Checks and Balances
6. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Abraham Lincoln
14th Amendment
Muckrakers
The Holocaust
7. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
William Jennings Bryan
Rough Riders
NATO (1959)
Brown v. Board of Education
8. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
2nd Amendment
Rosa Parks
Civil War
7th Amendment
9. Established the federal income tax.
Nullification Crisis
Warren G. Harding
The Jazz Age
16th Amendment
10. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
World War I
Gideon v. Wainwright
11. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Prohibition
Barbed wire
Treaty of Versailles
Calvin Coolidge
12. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Columbian Exchange
Thomas Jefferson
The Jazz Age
Susan B. Anthony
13. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
NATO (1959)
Thomas Paine
24th Amendment
14. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Scopes Trial
U.S.S. Maine
16th Amendment
Berlin Wall
15. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
22nd Amendment
Prohibition
Transcontinental railroad
Andrew Carnegie
16. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Prohibition
Berlin Wall
17. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Cuban Missile Crisis
U-2 Incident
Barbed wire
18. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
Alfred Thayer Mahan
14th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
19. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Jim Crow laws
The Baby Boom
Jonas Salk
William 'Boss' Tweed
20. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nullification Crisis
Containment
Trench Warfare
21. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Medger Evers
21st Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Command Economy
22. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
Containment
Fourteen Points
Battle of Wounded Knee
23. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gideon v. Wainwright
Harry S. Truman
24. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
GI Bill
Henry Ford
The Little Rock Nine
Cattle Drives
25. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Domino Theory
Immigration
Bay of Pigs
26. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Martin Luther King Jr
Baker v. Carr
Political machines
Samuel Adams
27. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
26th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Nullification Crisis
28. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Segregation
Shirley Chisholm
Double V Campaign
Henry Ford
29. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
14th Amendment
Prohibition
Shirley Chisholm
Reconstruction
30. Sets a term limit for the President
Brown v. Board of Education
The Scopes Trial
The Rosenberg's
22nd Amendment
31. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
Sputnik
Theodore Roosevelt
The War on Poverty
32. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
26th Amendment
Jacob Riis
U.S.S. Maine
33. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
court packing
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Flappers
Thomas Jefferson
34. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Holocaust
Emancipation Proclamation
SEC
35. No unlawful search and seizure.
Shirley Chisholm
Sputnik
4th Amendment
Watergate
36. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Clarence Darrow
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The War on Poverty
Plessy v. Ferguson
37. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Samuel Adams
Red Scare
Gloria Steinem
Dust Bowl
38. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Yellow Journalism
U-2 Incident
WPA
Korean War
39. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
FDIC
Normandy
The War on Poverty
5th Amendment
40. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Henry Ford
Jim Crow laws
Fidel Castro
Andrew Carnegie
41. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Booker T. Washington
U.S.S. Maine
The War on Poverty
4th Amendment
42. 1939 - 1945
World War II
Tenements
Cattle Drives
SEC
43. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Charles Lindbergh
John F. Kennedy
Pearl Harbor
Jonas Salk
44. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Thomas Paine
Reconstruction
Elvis Presley
45. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
King George III
Populism
SEC
Fourteen Points
46. Movement of people into a country from another country.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Holocaust
Immigration
Homestead Act
47. President during Roaring 20's
Treaty of Versailles
Calvin Coolidge
John J. Pershing
Plessy v. Ferguson
48. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
Lyndon B. Johnson
Andrew Carnegie
Great Society
49. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
NATO (1959)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Reynolds v. Sims
50. President 1963-68
John Scopes
7th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Industrialization