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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Prohibition
Andrew Carnegie
14th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Sputnik
Pearl Harbor
Gloria Steinem
Theodore Roosevelt
3. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
Bill of Rights
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Susan B. Anthony
4. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Battle of Midway
The Great Migration
FDIC
16th Amendment
5. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
NATO (1959)
Hoovervilles
Warren G. Harding
6. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Lyndon B. Johnson
GI Bill
2nd Amendment
The Little Rock Nine
7. Rights reserved to the people.
17th Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
9th Amendment
World War II
8. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
World War I
Korean War
Lyndon B. Johnson
9. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Bill of Rights
Bay of Pigs
Korean War
Social Darwinism
10. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
court packing
Miranda v. Arizona
11. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Theodore Roosevelt
Homestead Act
13th Amendment
Domino Theory
12. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Jonas Salk
Political machines
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Cuban Missile Crisis
13. The direct election of US Senators.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
17th Amendment
Reconstruction
24th Amendment
14. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Command Economy
George Wallace
World War I
15. Separation by race.
Segregation
Civil War
U.S.S. Maine
Clarence Darrow
16. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Plessy v. Ferguson
NATO (1959)
Cattle Drives
2nd Amendment
17. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Lyndon B. Johnson
1st Amendment
Fourteen Points
Prohibition
18. President 1961-63
19thAmendment
Reynolds v. Sims
John F. Kennedy
The Rosenberg's
19. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Separation of Powers
Woodrow Wilson
21st Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
20. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
WPA
Hoovervilles
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
21. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Treaty of Versailles
Federalism
Reynolds v. Sims
The Holocaust
22. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948)
24th Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
23. Early rock n ' roll performer
22nd Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Transcontinental railroad
Elvis Presley
24. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
Thomas Jefferson
3rd Amendment
The War on Poverty
25. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Joe McCarthy
Hoovervilles
John F. Kennedy
Gideon v. Wainwright
26. New York political machine boss.
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27. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Transcontinental railroad
Ronald Reagan
George Wallace
Double V Campaign
28. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
The New Deal
Imperialism
Martin Luther King Jr
29. The right to vote for women.
Segregation
19thAmendment
8th Amendment
Muckrakers
30. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
10th Amendment
Industrialization
Segregation
31. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
The Harlem Renaissance
Fourteen Points
18th Amendment
32. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Calvin Coolidge
Henry Ford
World War I
33. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Richard M. Nixon
15th Amendment
13th Amendment
34. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Warren G. Harding
Domino Theory
Separation of Powers
Benjamin Franklin
35. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
17th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
SEC
8th Amendment
36. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Civil War
Command Economy
Bay of Pigs
37. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
10th Amendment
Immigration
Hoovervilles
Bill of Rights
38. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Gideon v. Wainwright
Nullification Crisis
Urbanization
Bobby Kennedy
39. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
SEC
9th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
Reconstruction
40. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Immigration
The Jazz Age
Battle of Midway
Containment
41. No unlawful search and seizure.
Transcontinental railroad
4th Amendment
Korean War
Gideon v. Wainwright
42. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Checks and Balances
Hoovervilles
Containment
Booker T. Washington
43. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Industrialization
8th Amendment
Great Society
Rosa Parks
44. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Jacob Riis
Sacco and Vanzetti
Tenements
Manifest Destiny
45. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Containment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Muckrakers
Charles Lindbergh
46. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
Malcolm X
Double V Campaign
Teapot Dome Scandal
47. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
The Harlem Renaissance
Bobby Kennedy
48. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Great Society
Thomas Paine
49. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Domino Theory
Free Enterprise Economy
Political machines
Joe McCarthy
50. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
The Little Rock Nine
Harry S. Truman
George Washington
U-2 Incident