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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. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
3rd Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
U-2 Incident
Reconstruction
2. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
4th Amendment
Immigration
Gideon v. Wainwright
Andrew Carnegie
3. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
Spanish - American War
William H. Taft
Brown v. Board of Education
4. 1860 - 1865
Industrialization
Civil War
Upton Sinclair
Manifest Destiny
5. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The New Deal
Transcontinental railroad
Sacco and Vanzetti
Samuel Adams
6. President of the US during the Civil War.
Federalism
Urbanization
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Nikita Kruschev
26th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Abraham Lincoln
8. 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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9. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Viet Nam
Muckrakers
Medger Evers
William Jennings Bryan
10. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Reconstruction
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
11. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
King George III
14th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Sputnik
12. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
Andrew Carnegie
Segregation
Checks and Balances
13. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
Omar Bradley
Truman Doctrine (1947)
14. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Emancipation Proclamation
Marshall Plan (1948)
Normandy
15. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Viet Nam
The Little Rock Nine
16. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Segregation
Joe McCarthy
Harry S. Truman
Fourteen Points
17. Invented the vaccine for polio
GI Bill
Shirley Chisholm
Jonas Salk
U.S.S. Maine
18. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
John J. Pershing
Tenements
Prohibition
Woodrow Wilson
19. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Transcontinental railroad
Industrialization
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
20. Trial by jury.
Jacob Riis
15th Amendment
7th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
21. Alternate term for 1920's.
Samuel Adams
7th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
The Jazz Age
22. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
Industrialization
13th Amendment
Segregation
23. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Omar Bradley
Watergate
24. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Tenements
U.S.S. Maine
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Cuban Missile Crisis
25. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Berlin Airlift
Hoovervilles
GI Bill
Sacco and Vanzetti
26. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Prohibition
Manifest Destiny
William H. Taft
Federalist Papers
27. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Baker v. Carr
Social Darwinism
FDIC
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
28. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
3rd Amendment
Ronald Reagan
29. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Joe McCarthy
Samuel Adams
Neil Armstrong
Henry Ford
30. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Rough Riders
Cesar Chavez
SEC
Great Compromise
31. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Bill of Rights
Calvin Coolidge
Rough Riders
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
32. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Harry S. Truman
Command Economy
Imperialism
Cesar Chavez
33. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
9th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Island hopping
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
League of Nations
Muckrakers
35. United Farm Workers activist
Benjamin Franklin
Berlin Wall
Federalist Papers
Cesar Chavez
36. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
John F. Kennedy
Clarence Darrow
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Baker v. Carr
37. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Bill of Rights
Henry Ford
U-2 Incident
Woodrow Wilson
38. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Great Society
Yellow Journalism
3rd Amendment
Tenements
39. American painter from 1920's
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40. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
NATO (1959)
Political machines
Great Society
William H. Taft
41. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Abraham Lincoln
Homestead Act
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Korean War
42. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Warren G. Harding
Thomas Jefferson
Flappers
U.S.S. Maine
43. 1939 - 1945
Nullification Crisis
Great Compromise
WPA
World War II
44. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
13th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
The Great Migration
45. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Woodrow Wilson
Federalist Papers
Berlin Airlift
The Little Rock Nine
46. President 1961-63
Island hopping
Barbed wire
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
47. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Battle of Midway
Rough Riders
1st Amendment
48. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
The Holocaust
Jonas Salk
Industrialization
World War II
49. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
John Scopes
14th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
50. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Georgia O'Keefe
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Malcolm X
Harry S. Truman