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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. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
18th Amendment
Rosa Parks
WEB DuBois
2. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
The Baby Boom
18th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Spanish - American War
3. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
League of Nations
Nullification Crisis
Warren G. Harding
4. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Henry Ford
Dust Bowl
court packing
5. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Nullification Crisis
The Articles of Confederation
14th Amendment
Populism
6. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
Booker T. Washington
Great Compromise
Lyndon B. Johnson
7. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Berlin Airlift
Omar Bradley
Battle of Midway
Neil Armstrong
8. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Spanish - American War
The Harlem Renaissance
Manifest Destiny
Warren G. Harding
9. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Great Society
Miranda v. Arizona
George Wallace
Samuel Adams
10. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Malcolm X
15th Amendment
WPA
11. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Battle of Wounded Knee
FDIC
Fourteen Points
Checks and Balances
12. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Bay of Pigs
Urbanization
Emancipation Proclamation
Great Compromise
13. President during Roaring 20's
Calvin Coolidge
Bracero Program
The Great Migration
Truman Doctrine (1947)
14. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Clarence Darrow
Neil Armstrong
The New Deal
WEB DuBois
15. President of the US during the Civil War.
Social Darwinism
Abraham Lincoln
Jim Crow laws
Malcolm X
16. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Civil War
Treaty of Versailles
Columbian Exchange
5th Amendment
17. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
William Jennings Bryan
King George III
Prohibition
18. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Thomas Jefferson
FDIC
Battle of Wounded Knee
19. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Shirley Chisholm
John F. Kennedy
Nullification Crisis
20. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
Booker T. Washington
18th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
21. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Andrew Carnegie
Sputnik
Checks and Balances
Rosa Parks
22. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Theodore Roosevelt
Separation of Powers
Bill of Rights
The Baby Boom
23. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Warren G. Harding
Rough Riders
Urbanization
24. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
26th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Double V Campaign
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
25. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
10th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Jim Crow laws
26. 1860 - 1865
Civil War
Medger Evers
16th Amendment
21st Amendment
27. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Pearl Harbor
Spanish - American War
Harry S. Truman
William 'Boss' Tweed
28. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Muckrakers
16th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
29. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
League of Nations
Bracero Program
24th Amendment
30. Early rock n ' roll performer
Susan B. Anthony
Elvis Presley
Fidel Castro
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31. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Susan B. Anthony
Domino Theory
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The War on Poverty
32. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Columbian Exchange
Warren G. Harding
Red Scare
33. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Reynolds v. Sims
Upton Sinclair
34. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
17th Amendment
The Great Migration
Upton Sinclair
Reynolds v. Sims
35. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Urbanization
Andrew Carnegie
Hoovervilles
Populism
36. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
U.S.S. Maine
Urbanization
The Holocaust
37. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Omar Bradley
U-2 Incident
Ronald Reagan
38. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
6th Amendment
14th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
Joe McCarthy
39. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Gideon v. Wainwright
2nd Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Shirley Chisholm
40. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
The Jazz Age
Martin Luther King Jr
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Pearl Harbor
41. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Spanish - American War
15th Amendment
The Great Migration
Civil War
42. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Dawes Act
Shirley Chisholm
Segregation
Malcolm X
43. Rights reserved to the people.
Rough Riders
9th Amendment
24th Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
44. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Harry S. Truman
15th Amendment
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45. President 1963-68
Henry Ford
William 'Boss' Tweed
Emancipation Proclamation
Lyndon B. Johnson
46. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Bill of Rights
FDIC
Barbed wire
Gloria Steinem
47. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Hoovervilles
4th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
48. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
Fidel Castro
Muckrakers
Barbed wire
49. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Lyndon B. Johnson
The War on Poverty
King George III
John Scopes
50. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Rough Riders
Battle of Midway
George Washington