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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. Powers reserved to the states
Elvis Presley
10th Amendment
Sputnik
Andrew Carnegie
2. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Martin Luther King Jr
Neil Armstrong
U-2 Incident
Gloria Steinem
3. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Gloria Steinem
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Political machines
4. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
22nd Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
Island hopping
5. New York political machine boss.
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6. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Immigration
Richard M. Nixon
NATO (1959)
7. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Domino Theory
6th Amendment
Omar Bradley
8. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
NATO (1959)
5th Amendment
Great Compromise
Theodore Roosevelt
9. No quartering of troops during peace time
Marshall Plan (1948)
Truman Doctrine (1947)
3rd Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
10. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
William 'Boss' Tweed
Hoovervilles
Teapot Dome Scandal
11. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Imperialism
The Great Migration
Gloria Steinem
12. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
William 'Boss' Tweed
Pearl Harbor
Fourteen Points
13. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
Fidel Castro
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
14. Right to bear arms
The New Deal
Manifest Destiny
2nd Amendment
The Rosenberg's
15. Founding father - politician - scientist
26th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Hoovervilles
Spanish - American War
16. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
The Baby Boom
Woodrow Wilson
Political machines
The Harlem Renaissance
17. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
8th Amendment
King George III
Bill of Rights
Battle of Midway
18. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Thomas Paine
Omar Bradley
U.S.S. Maine
22nd Amendment
19. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
William 'Boss' Tweed
Cuban Missile Crisis
Charles Lindbergh
20. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Trench Warfare
10th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
The Harlem Renaissance
21. The direct election of US Senators.
Elvis Presley
Thomas Paine
14th Amendment
17th Amendment
22. 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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23. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
World War II
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Great Compromise
Dawes Act
24. 1914 - 1918
Georgia O'Keefe
Columbian Exchange
Woodrow Wilson
World War I
25. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Charles Lindbergh
Gideon v. Wainwright
Sacco and Vanzetti
26. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
William Jennings Bryan
Battle of Wounded Knee
Command Economy
27. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
Pearl Harbor
World War I
Ronald Reagan
28. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Watergate
Homestead Act
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Jazz Age
29. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Brown v. Board of Education
14th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Laissez Faire
30. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Thomas Paine
Baker v. Carr
Escobedo v. Illinois
WEB DuBois
31. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Nikita Kruschev
Teapot Dome Scandal
Rough Riders
Korean War
32. The prohibition of alcohol.
Civil War
Lyndon B. Johnson
18th Amendment
U-2 Incident
33. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Miranda v. Arizona
Neil Armstrong
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The War on Poverty
34. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Korean War
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Laissez Faire
Checks and Balances
35. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Calvin Coolidge
Pearl Harbor
Cattle Drives
Prohibition
36. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Watergate
Susan B. Anthony
Joe McCarthy
Korean War
37. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Double V Campaign
Ronald Reagan
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Checks and Balances
38. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Nikita Kruschev
The Jazz Age
The War on Poverty
Spanish - American War
39. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
15th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Pearl Harbor
Barbed wire
40. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
The Holocaust
22nd Amendment
14th Amendment
John Scopes
41. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
14th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Baby Boom
Tenements
42. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Berlin Airlift
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Yellow Journalism
22nd Amendment
43. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
1st Amendment
Clarence Darrow
Free Enterprise Economy
Richard M. Nixon
44. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Urbanization
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Fourteen Points
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45. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Imperialism
Gloria Steinem
Battle of Midway
Truman Doctrine (1947)
46. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
17th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
The Jazz Age
47. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
The Jazz Age
Malcolm X
Warren G. Harding
48. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Federalism
13th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
49. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Civil War
6th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr
50. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Jim Crow laws
Bobby Kennedy
Hoovervilles
Immigration