SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
TAKS 11th Grade Us History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
taks
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
World War I
Red Scare
Viet Nam
court packing
2. The direct election of US Senators.
Great Compromise
Brown v. Board of Education
10th Amendment
17th Amendment
3. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
1st Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Baker v. Carr
4. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
8th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Berlin Airlift
Joe McCarthy
5. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
21st Amendment
Berlin Wall
The Harlem Renaissance
6th Amendment
6. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Fourteen Points
Elvis Presley
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18th Amendment
7. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
FDIC
The Rosenberg's
William 'Boss' Tweed
8. Abolished the poll tax.
Dawes Act
Battle of Wounded Knee
24th Amendment
22nd Amendment
9. 1939 - 1945
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
World War II
Korean War
Immigration
10. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Yellow Journalism
WEB DuBois
Omar Bradley
Tenements
11. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Emancipation Proclamation
Flappers
The New Deal
Nullification Crisis
12. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
Andrew Carnegie
Douglas MacArthur
Miranda v. Arizona
13. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Viet Nam
Red Scare
League of Nations
Sacco and Vanzetti
14. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
NATO (1959)
The War on Poverty
Charles Lindbergh
15. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
George Washington
FDIC
Martin Luther King Jr
16. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Domino Theory
WEB DuBois
7th Amendment
Reconstruction
17. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
18. Right to bear arms
Jim Crow laws
2nd Amendment
The Jazz Age
16th Amendment
19. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Pearl Harbor
Great Society
William H. Taft
Viet Nam
20. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
League of Nations
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
21. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Theodore Roosevelt
Jacob Riis
Fourteen Points
William H. Taft
22. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Medger Evers
21st Amendment
Malcolm X
Red Scare
23. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
George Wallace
The Little Rock Nine
Dust Bowl
Double V Campaign
24. Alternate term for 1920's.
Rough Riders
The Jazz Age
18th Amendment
FDIC
25. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Gloria Steinem
Immigration
Fourteen Points
Henry Ford
26. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
Manifest Destiny
Sputnik
Great Society
27. Competition between European countries to create empires.
SEC
Flappers
Imperialism
John J. Pershing
28. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
William Jennings Bryan
8th Amendment
Rough Riders
Urbanization
29. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
21st Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
Free Enterprise Economy
30. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Reynolds v. Sims
Tenements
Trench Warfare
31. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Jim Crow laws
Theodore Roosevelt
Omar Bradley
32. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Separation of Powers
Bobby Kennedy
Urbanization
33. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Checks and Balances
15th Amendment
Great Society
Alfred Thayer Mahan
34. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Containment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Island hopping
NATO (1959)
35. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
George Washington
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Holocaust
Trench Warfare
36. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
Omar Bradley
Clarence Darrow
Homestead Act
37. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Double V Campaign
Calvin Coolidge
Domino Theory
Red Scare
38. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Warren G. Harding
Containment
Lyndon B. Johnson
George Washington
39. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Prohibition
Industrialization
Georgia O'Keefe
Sacco and Vanzetti
40. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Charles Lindbergh
Muckrakers
U.S.S. Maine
Battle of Wounded Knee
41. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
George Washington
Sacco and Vanzetti
Bracero Program
Industrialization
42. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
24th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
8th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
43. Powers reserved to the states
Upton Sinclair
Thomas Paine
10th Amendment
Barbed wire
44. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
Watergate
Bracero Program
Nikita Kruschev
45. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Dust Bowl
Omar Bradley
Barbed wire
League of Nations
46. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
2nd Amendment
Populism
Sputnik
14th Amendment
47. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Trench Warfare
Theodore Roosevelt
8th Amendment
The Baby Boom
48. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Viet Nam
Bay of Pigs
Command Economy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
49. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Ronald Reagan
15th Amendment
Medger Evers
The New Deal
50. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
21st Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Neil Armstrong