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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Berlin Wall
George Wallace
10th Amendment
2. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
William H. Taft
Samuel Adams
Malcolm X
3. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
John Scopes
Bracero Program
Pearl Harbor
Miranda v. Arizona
4. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Federalism
William H. Taft
Hoovervilles
Gloria Steinem
5. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Manifest Destiny
Truman Doctrine (1947)
NATO (1959)
The Little Rock Nine
6. President 1963-68
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Paine
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
7. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Clarence Darrow
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
4th Amendment
The Baby Boom
8. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Neil Armstrong
Upton Sinclair
Rough Riders
The Baby Boom
9. Founding father - politician - scientist
Marshall Plan (1948)
Benjamin Franklin
Fidel Castro
Clarence Darrow
10. Abolished the poll tax.
Barbed wire
William H. Taft
World War I
24th Amendment
11. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Homestead Act
Civil War
FDIC
Reconstruction
12. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
Cuban Missile Crisis
Federalist Papers
William 'Boss' Tweed
13. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Teapot Dome Scandal
Thomas Jefferson
18th Amendment
14. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
The War on Poverty
Nullification Crisis
15. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jonas Salk
U.S.S. Maine
League of Nations
16. Established the federal income tax.
Cesar Chavez
16th Amendment
Samuel Adams
WPA
17. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Hoovervilles
George Washington
18. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Sputnik
Neil Armstrong
Containment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
19. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Berlin Airlift
Cattle Drives
20. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Bill of Rights
Medger Evers
Island hopping
Neil Armstrong
21. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Great Compromise
Civil War
The War on Poverty
Immigration
22. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
3rd Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
23. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Containment
Theodore Roosevelt
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
24. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Battle of Midway
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Checks and Balances
Teapot Dome Scandal
25. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
1st Amendment
Henry Ford
17th Amendment
26. First astronaut to land on the moon.
WPA
court packing
Dawes Act
Neil Armstrong
27. 1939 - 1945
Upton Sinclair
Rosa Parks
World War II
Checks and Balances
28. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Shirley Chisholm
King George III
Yellow Journalism
William Jennings Bryan
29. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Bay of Pigs
Susan B. Anthony
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The New Deal
30. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Free Enterprise Economy
Prohibition
Jacob Riis
Fourteen Points
31. No quartering of troops during peace time
Gloria Steinem
3rd Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Woodrow Wilson
32. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Cattle Drives
The Baby Boom
GI Bill
33. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
The Baby Boom
Escobedo v. Illinois
Miranda v. Arizona
Great Compromise
34. New York political machine boss.
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35. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Bracero Program
Bill of Rights
FDIC
Joe McCarthy
36. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
William Jennings Bryan
Gloria Steinem
4th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
37. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Laissez Faire
Sputnik
William Jennings Bryan
Bill of Rights
38. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Normandy
Muckrakers
Rough Riders
Industrialization
39. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
John J. Pershing
Bracero Program
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
40. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Rosa Parks
Thomas Jefferson
The New Deal
41. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Reconstruction
Clarence Darrow
Immigration
court packing
42. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
The Rosenberg's
Upton Sinclair
Nullification Crisis
6th Amendment
43. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Battle of Midway
Joe McCarthy
26th Amendment
Imperialism
44. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
SEC
Checks and Balances
Dwight D. Eisenhower
45. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Ronald Reagan
GI Bill
Andrew Carnegie
Barbed wire
46. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
The New Deal
WPA
WEB DuBois
Flappers
47. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Samuel Adams
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Martin Luther King Jr
Barbed wire
48. 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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49. President during Roaring 20's
2nd Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Jazz Age
50. The right to vote for women.
21st Amendment
Jacob Riis
19thAmendment
Dust Bowl