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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The prohibition of alcohol.
Harry S. Truman
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
2. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Rosa Parks
5th Amendment
26th Amendment
Island hopping
3. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
The Holocaust
Spanish - American War
Benjamin Franklin
10th Amendment
4. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Immigration
Rough Riders
1st Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
5. The direct election of US Senators.
William Jennings Bryan
17th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Brown v. Board of Education
6. 1860 - 1865
Civil War
Clarence Darrow
Normandy
Charles Lindbergh
7. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Emancipation Proclamation
The New Deal
Woodrow Wilson
Upton Sinclair
8. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Reynolds v. Sims
Plessy v. Ferguson
Nullification Crisis
The Great Migration
9. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
The Scopes Trial
Social Darwinism
The Harlem Renaissance
10. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Medger Evers
Jacob Riis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
11. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
court packing
Great Compromise
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
12. Abolished the poll tax.
Dust Bowl
The Harlem Renaissance
Teapot Dome Scandal
24th Amendment
13. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Rough Riders
Shirley Chisholm
Jacob Riis
Richard M. Nixon
14. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
Viet Nam
10th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
15. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Immigration
NATO (1959)
John J. Pershing
Command Economy
16. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Nullification Crisis
League of Nations
Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow laws
17. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Bobby Kennedy
Rough Riders
Marshall Plan (1948)
Red Scare
18. No unlawful search and seizure.
Checks and Balances
4th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
WPA
19. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
22nd Amendment
Baker v. Carr
8th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
20. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Laissez Faire
Domino Theory
Federalism
John Scopes
21. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
7th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Red Scare
Gideon v. Wainwright
22. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Joe McCarthy
Medger Evers
Prohibition
Theodore Roosevelt
23. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
6th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
U.S.S. Maine
Plessy v. Ferguson
24. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Imperialism
Hoovervilles
19thAmendment
Woodrow Wilson
25. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Free Enterprise Economy
WEB DuBois
Sputnik
The Jazz Age
26. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Great Society
John J. Pershing
Plessy v. Ferguson
27. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Berlin Airlift
Gloria Steinem
SEC
The Harlem Renaissance
28. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Plessy v. Ferguson
Fidel Castro
7th Amendment
29. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
Island hopping
5th Amendment
Omar Bradley
30. No quartering of troops during peace time
Emancipation Proclamation
Watergate
Dust Bowl
3rd Amendment
31. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Bobby Kennedy
Emancipation Proclamation
John Scopes
32. Sets a term limit for the President
The War on Poverty
1st Amendment
22nd Amendment
Containment
33. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Island hopping
Abraham Lincoln
Plessy v. Ferguson
Harry S. Truman
34. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Medger Evers
24th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
35. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Homestead Act
Henry Ford
Manifest Destiny
36. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Susan B. Anthony
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Omar Bradley
37. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
The Jazz Age
SEC
Plessy v. Ferguson
John J. Pershing
38. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Jim Crow laws
World War II
Great Society
Escobedo v. Illinois
39. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Transcontinental railroad
Richard M. Nixon
Prohibition
Double V Campaign
40. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Bobby Kennedy
Transcontinental railroad
Red Scare
Columbian Exchange
41. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
42. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Fidel Castro
Georgia O'Keefe
7th Amendment
43. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Island hopping
Pearl Harbor
7th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
44. Right to bear arms
The Little Rock Nine
2nd Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Nikita Kruschev
45. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
King George III
Nullification Crisis
WPA
46. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Flappers
WEB DuBois
Omar Bradley
Nikita Kruschev
47. 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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48. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
League of Nations
The Jazz Age
Watergate
49. President of the US during the Civil War.
17th Amendment
Political machines
Nikita Kruschev
Abraham Lincoln
50. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Civil War
Harry S. Truman
Malcolm X
Andrew Carnegie