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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Ronald Reagan
court packing
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
John F. Kennedy
Watergate
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
3. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Bobby Kennedy
Brown v. Board of Education
Industrialization
Tenements
4. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Andrew Carnegie
Richard M. Nixon
The Baby Boom
Red Scare
5. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Nullification Crisis
Battle of Wounded Knee
26th Amendment
Omar Bradley
6. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
15th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Industrialization
George Wallace
7. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
Miranda v. Arizona
Harry S. Truman
Shirley Chisholm
8. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Bracero Program
Containment
World War II
Spanish - American War
9. No unlawful search and seizure.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Jazz Age
4th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
10. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
24th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Transcontinental railroad
Social Darwinism
11. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Articles of Confederation
Trench Warfare
The Harlem Renaissance
12. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
14th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Dust Bowl
Urbanization
13. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
21st Amendment
24th Amendment
William H. Taft
The Little Rock Nine
14. United Farm Workers activist
Manifest Destiny
Cesar Chavez
8th Amendment
The Baby Boom
15. President 1961-63
Douglas MacArthur
The New Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
16. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
The Jazz Age
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Andrew Carnegie
Teapot Dome Scandal
17. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Booker T. Washington
The Little Rock Nine
Upton Sinclair
18. 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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19. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Warren G. Harding
The Great Migration
Woodrow Wilson
20. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
13th Amendment
Muckrakers
Great Compromise
Sputnik
21. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Barbed wire
Susan B. Anthony
Berlin Airlift
22. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Douglas MacArthur
Booker T. Washington
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
23. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
The New Deal
Transcontinental railroad
Miranda v. Arizona
24. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
10th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Theodore Roosevelt
25. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Samuel Adams
World War II
Shirley Chisholm
26. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Populism
Flappers
William H. Taft
4th Amendment
27. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Social Darwinism
14th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Joe McCarthy
28. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
WEB DuBois
WPA
Island hopping
Jim Crow laws
29. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Henry Ford
Plessy v. Ferguson
WEB DuBois
The New Deal
30. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
The Harlem Renaissance
WPA
Barbed wire
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
31. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
10th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
32. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
1st Amendment
The New Deal
Jonas Salk
Thomas Jefferson
33. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Bill of Rights
Laissez Faire
21st Amendment
16th Amendment
34. President of the US during the Civil War.
U.S.S. Maine
Checks and Balances
Abraham Lincoln
Normandy
35. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Joe McCarthy
Baker v. Carr
Ronald Reagan
The Jazz Age
36. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Korean War
Immigration
1st Amendment
Federalism
37. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Martin Luther King Jr
Hoovervilles
Nikita Kruschev
Teapot Dome Scandal
38. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Cattle Drives
Marshall Plan (1948)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Trench Warfare
39. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Cesar Chavez
13th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Double V Campaign
40. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
The Baby Boom
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Harry S. Truman
41. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Bobby Kennedy
5th Amendment
Island hopping
Woodrow Wilson
42. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
World War II
Watergate
Nikita Kruschev
43. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
18th Amendment
Populism
Fidel Castro
3rd Amendment
44. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
NATO (1959)
Great Society
The Jazz Age
Great Compromise
45. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Segregation
Korean War
court packing
Andrew Carnegie
46. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
King George III
Gideon v. Wainwright
Upton Sinclair
47. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Upton Sinclair
Rosa Parks
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Holocaust
48. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Tenements
Omar Bradley
Laissez Faire
2nd Amendment
49. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Reconstruction
7th Amendment
19thAmendment
The War on Poverty
50. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Georgia O'Keefe
Emancipation Proclamation
Treaty of Versailles
NATO (1959)