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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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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2. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Great Compromise
Calvin Coolidge
Baker v. Carr
Berlin Airlift
3. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Bill of Rights
Bay of Pigs
Martin Luther King Jr
4th Amendment
4. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Tenements
The War on Poverty
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Great Compromise
5. The direct election of US Senators.
King George III
Industrialization
17th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
6. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Immigration
Dawes Act
Checks and Balances
7. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Federalist Papers
Containment
5th Amendment
Samuel Adams
8. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Ronald Reagan
Brown v. Board of Education
Omar Bradley
13th Amendment
9. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Trench Warfare
Malcolm X
The War on Poverty
10. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
WEB DuBois
8th Amendment
Island hopping
11. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Theodore Roosevelt
Marshall Plan (1948)
John Scopes
Fidel Castro
12. 1860 - 1865
Benjamin Franklin
21st Amendment
Civil War
Cesar Chavez
13. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Susan B. Anthony
The Baby Boom
NATO (1959)
Yellow Journalism
14. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
John J. Pershing
SEC
Great Compromise
15. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Battle of Midway
Bobby Kennedy
Emancipation Proclamation
Shirley Chisholm
16. New York political machine boss.
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17. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Martin Luther King Jr
Political machines
Double V Campaign
Charles Lindbergh
18. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Sacco and Vanzetti
John Scopes
Federalist Papers
Domino Theory
19. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Free Enterprise Economy
Trench Warfare
19thAmendment
Double V Campaign
20. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Jim Crow laws
Andrew Carnegie
8th Amendment
Segregation
21. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
Reynolds v. Sims
15th Amendment
Great Society
22. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
court packing
2nd Amendment
Fidel Castro
23. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Imperialism
League of Nations
Civil War
Jonas Salk
24. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
4th Amendment
Cesar Chavez
Bobby Kennedy
Miranda v. Arizona
25. Powers reserved to the states
26th Amendment
10th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
George Washington
26. 1939 - 1945
Reconstruction
Bill of Rights
Joe McCarthy
World War II
27. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Samuel Adams
Viet Nam
U-2 Incident
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
28. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Woodrow Wilson
Pearl Harbor
Booker T. Washington
Imperialism
29. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
The War on Poverty
Separation of Powers
Battle of Wounded Knee
Andrew Carnegie
30. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Theodore Roosevelt
George Wallace
Manifest Destiny
31. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Jacob Riis
Miranda v. Arizona
Fourteen Points
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
32. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Omar Bradley
18th Amendment
Watergate
Korean War
33. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Nullification Crisis
Muckrakers
League of Nations
Checks and Balances
34. Abolished the poll tax.
Battle of Midway
24th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Watergate
35. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Political machines
World War II
Fidel Castro
36. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Political machines
Richard M. Nixon
1st Amendment
37. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Dawes Act
Brown v. Board of Education
John Scopes
Benjamin Franklin
38. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Trench Warfare
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
9th Amendment
The War on Poverty
39. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
GI Bill
FDIC
Samuel Adams
Andrew Carnegie
40. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
William Jennings Bryan
Elvis Presley
Manifest Destiny
Spanish - American War
41. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Korean War
Andrew Carnegie
Free Enterprise Economy
42. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
15th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
9th Amendment
Korean War
43. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Dust Bowl
Cattle Drives
Separation of Powers
William Jennings Bryan
44. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
6th Amendment
GI Bill
Baker v. Carr
45. The right to a fast and public trial.
Susan B. Anthony
The Rosenberg's
13th Amendment
6th Amendment
46. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
Civil War
Neil Armstrong
Georgia O'Keefe
47. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Bobby Kennedy
The Baby Boom
Henry Ford
48. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Reynolds v. Sims
16th Amendment
Normandy
49. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Abraham Lincoln
FDIC
Plessy v. Ferguson
Thomas Paine
50. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Warren G. Harding
Nikita Kruschev
Columbian Exchange
Hoovervilles