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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
Dawes Act
Reynolds v. Sims
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
2. Alternate term for 1920's.
Nikita Kruschev
The Jazz Age
SEC
Battle of Midway
3. Founding father - politician - scientist
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Imperialism
Benjamin Franklin
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
4. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Nullification Crisis
Jim Crow laws
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Lindbergh
5. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
Jacob Riis
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bobby Kennedy
6. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Sputnik
Industrialization
14th Amendment
Muckrakers
7. No quartering of troops during peace time
Federalism
Reconstruction
3rd Amendment
Cesar Chavez
8. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Imperialism
Pearl Harbor
Thomas Paine
9. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
court packing
William Jennings Bryan
NATO (1959)
10. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Laissez Faire
Miranda v. Arizona
11. Sets a term limit for the President
15th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
22nd Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
12. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Articles of Confederation
Flappers
13. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
GI Bill
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Double V Campaign
Nikita Kruschev
14. President 1961-63
William H. Taft
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
King George III
15. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
The Scopes Trial
Upton Sinclair
Fidel Castro
16. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Andrew Carnegie
Containment
Neil Armstrong
17. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Tenements
Dawes Act
8th Amendment
18. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Jacob Riis
Joe McCarthy
John Scopes
William Jennings Bryan
19. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
The War on Poverty
Fourteen Points
4th Amendment
Barbed wire
20. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Viet Nam
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Bracero Program
Gloria Steinem
21. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Bobby Kennedy
Douglas MacArthur
The Scopes Trial
World War II
22. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
13th Amendment
8th Amendment
Dawes Act
23. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
21st Amendment
Imperialism
24. The direct election of US Senators.
The Articles of Confederation
7th Amendment
19thAmendment
17th Amendment
25. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
The Rosenberg's
Teapot Dome Scandal
John F. Kennedy
26. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The New Deal
The Holocaust
Berlin Wall
8th Amendment
27. President 1980-88.
Plessy v. Ferguson
NATO (1959)
Ronald Reagan
Cesar Chavez
28. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Nikita Kruschev
Bobby Kennedy
Dawes Act
Flappers
29. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Containment
Viet Nam
Great Compromise
The Rosenberg's
30. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
Fidel Castro
7th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
31. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
George Washington
Georgia O'Keefe
FDIC
32. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Baker v. Carr
Double V Campaign
Omar Bradley
33. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Flappers
Georgia O'Keefe
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Brown v. Board of Education
34. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Miranda v. Arizona
John J. Pershing
Checks and Balances
Gideon v. Wainwright
35. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Immigration
Federalist Papers
Watergate
36. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Sputnik
Separation of Powers
Nullification Crisis
Escobedo v. Illinois
37. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Sputnik
Trench Warfare
8th Amendment
22nd Amendment
38. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
John Scopes
Warren G. Harding
Barbed wire
15th Amendment
39. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Korean War
Trench Warfare
Martin Luther King Jr
1st Amendment
40. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Tenements
Columbian Exchange
Medger Evers
Battle of Wounded Knee
41. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Pearl Harbor
Omar Bradley
Imperialism
FDIC
42. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Joe McCarthy
Marshall Plan (1948)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
43. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
The Articles of Confederation
5th Amendment
WPA
World War II
44. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
Lyndon B. Johnson
Containment
Neil Armstrong
45. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Neil Armstrong
Berlin Wall
Populism
The New Deal
46. Separation by race.
Emancipation Proclamation
Segregation
Island hopping
Trench Warfare
47. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Jim Crow laws
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The War on Poverty
Viet Nam
48. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Jazz Age
Great Society
Alfred Thayer Mahan
49. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Thomas Paine
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Tenements
50. The prohibition of alcohol.
Homestead Act
Bay of Pigs
18th Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed