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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
World War II
Tenements
Brown v. Board of Education
2. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
WPA
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Bobby Kennedy
3. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
Great Compromise
Sacco and Vanzetti
4. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Jacob Riis
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
14th Amendment
5. Abolished the poll tax.
King George III
24th Amendment
The New Deal
Fidel Castro
6. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
John Scopes
Calvin Coolidge
7. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Manifest Destiny
Berlin Airlift
U-2 Incident
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
8. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
16th Amendment
FDIC
Samuel Adams
Gideon v. Wainwright
9. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
Gloria Steinem
Battle of Midway
Elvis Presley
10. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Sputnik
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Homestead Act
11. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Brown v. Board of Education
Teapot Dome Scandal
Cuban Missile Crisis
Emancipation Proclamation
12. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Reconstruction
Nullification Crisis
Brown v. Board of Education
13. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Korean War
Double V Campaign
Normandy
14. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Federalist Papers
Bobby Kennedy
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gloria Steinem
15. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Korean War
The Jazz Age
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
King George III
16. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Social Darwinism
The Little Rock Nine
Homestead Act
Pearl Harbor
17. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Korean War
The Rosenberg's
1st Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
18. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Gloria Steinem
Separation of Powers
Fourteen Points
Barbed wire
19. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Shirley Chisholm
9th Amendment
Imperialism
WEB DuBois
20. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Separation of Powers
Great Society
Sacco and Vanzetti
Dust Bowl
21. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Social Darwinism
The New Deal
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Great Compromise
22. The right to a fast and public trial.
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Baker v. Carr
6th Amendment
23. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Command Economy
Tenements
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Holocaust
24. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Great Migration
21st Amendment
Berlin Wall
3rd Amendment
25. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
John Scopes
The Jazz Age
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
26. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
15th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Muckrakers
Tenements
27. First form of government established by the 13 states.
8th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
Battle of Wounded Knee
WEB DuBois
28. American painter from 1920's
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29. Early rock n ' roll performer
Emancipation Proclamation
Spanish - American War
Columbian Exchange
Elvis Presley
30. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
John J. Pershing
5th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
31. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
The War on Poverty
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
George Wallace
32. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
4th Amendment
Watergate
The Baby Boom
1st Amendment
33. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Double V Campaign
The War on Poverty
The Little Rock Nine
34. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
The War on Poverty
Federalism
35. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Calvin Coolidge
Nikita Kruschev
Great Compromise
The Great Migration
36. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
William 'Boss' Tweed
The Jazz Age
Viet Nam
U-2 Incident
37. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Jacob Riis
2nd Amendment
10th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
38. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Theodore Roosevelt
Marshall Plan (1948)
Booker T. Washington
39. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
Fidel Castro
Segregation
Industrialization
40. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
16th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr
Upton Sinclair
41. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Scopes Trial
Rosa Parks
42. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Social Darwinism
Lyndon B. Johnson
Island hopping
FDIC
43. United Farm Workers activist
Shirley Chisholm
Cesar Chavez
Richard M. Nixon
Yellow Journalism
44. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
9th Amendment
Samuel Adams
Malcolm X
45. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Warren G. Harding
U.S.S. Maine
GI Bill
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
46. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Bracero Program
Lyndon B. Johnson
4th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
47. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Hoovervilles
Cuban Missile Crisis
Viet Nam
Reconstruction
48. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Cesar Chavez
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Columbian Exchange
Thomas Paine
49. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
court packing
Homestead Act
Clarence Darrow
The Harlem Renaissance
50. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
Georgia O'Keefe
Urbanization
9th Amendment