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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Bracero Program
Segregation
Joe McCarthy
2. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Brown v. Board of Education
Baker v. Carr
Andrew Carnegie
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
3. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Woodrow Wilson
Dust Bowl
Viet Nam
16th Amendment
4. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Baker v. Carr
Berlin Airlift
Yellow Journalism
The Articles of Confederation
5. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Berlin Airlift
Henry Ford
William Jennings Bryan
6. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
13th Amendment
Great Compromise
The Scopes Trial
Upton Sinclair
7. First astronaut to land on the moon.
The Little Rock Nine
Malcolm X
Neil Armstrong
Sputnik
8. The right to a fast and public trial.
Ronald Reagan
17th Amendment
Social Darwinism
6th Amendment
9. Established the federal income tax.
NATO (1959)
Malcolm X
Urbanization
16th Amendment
10. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Joe McCarthy
Battle of Wounded Knee
Trench Warfare
Populism
11. 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
Civil War
Thomas Paine
Urbanization
12. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
Brown v. Board of Education
4th Amendment
NATO (1959)
13. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Rough Riders
Georgia O'Keefe
The Holocaust
Great Compromise
14. Abolished slavery
Federalist Papers
13th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
U-2 Incident
15. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
14th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
18th Amendment
U-2 Incident
16. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Command Economy
The Great Migration
Homestead Act
Sputnik
17. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Federalist Papers
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Booker T. Washington
NATO (1959)
18. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Andrew Carnegie
Douglas MacArthur
The Scopes Trial
Plessy v. Ferguson
19. Alternate term for 1920's.
Fidel Castro
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Jazz Age
Jonas Salk
20. Progressive president who served during WW I.
GI Bill
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Teapot Dome Scandal
21. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Neil Armstrong
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
NATO (1959)
Imperialism
22. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
Great Compromise
Dawes Act
23. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
Tenements
Yellow Journalism
Segregation
24. 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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25. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
George Washington
Bobby Kennedy
Susan B. Anthony
WEB DuBois
26. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Battle of Midway
Reconstruction
Calvin Coolidge
Miranda v. Arizona
27. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
GI Bill
Yellow Journalism
28. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Shirley Chisholm
Barbed wire
Fourteen Points
29. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
John F. Kennedy
Bracero Program
Hoovervilles
Elvis Presley
30. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Dust Bowl
Industrialization
Harry S. Truman
Cuban Missile Crisis
31. 1860 - 1865
Nullification Crisis
Federalism
18th Amendment
Civil War
32. Right to bear arms
Watergate
2nd Amendment
Viet Nam
The Holocaust
33. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Sputnik
Omar Bradley
Viet Nam
Miranda v. Arizona
34. Separation by race.
Transcontinental railroad
Charles Lindbergh
U.S.S. Maine
Segregation
35. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams
Neil Armstrong
Clarence Darrow
36. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Booker T. Washington
Flappers
Red Scare
William H. Taft
37. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
7th Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Samuel Adams
38. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Jim Crow laws
Checks and Balances
3rd Amendment
Prohibition
39. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Nullification Crisis
Yellow Journalism
Rough Riders
40. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Ford
William H. Taft
Berlin Wall
41. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Nikita Kruschev
SEC
9th Amendment
Jonas Salk
42. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Charles Lindbergh
The Harlem Renaissance
Island hopping
17th Amendment
43. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
Dawes Act
1st Amendment
Segregation
44. American painter from 1920's
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45. Powers reserved to the states
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Columbian Exchange
Thomas Jefferson
10th Amendment
46. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Joe McCarthy
Warren G. Harding
Federalist Papers
Island hopping
47. President 1963-68
Jacob Riis
Lyndon B. Johnson
Double V Campaign
Benjamin Franklin
48. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Immigration
court packing
Bill of Rights
21st Amendment
49. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Manifest Destiny
Command Economy
Berlin Airlift
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
50. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Samuel Adams
Tenements
The War on Poverty
Omar Bradley