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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. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Clarence Darrow
League of Nations
Susan B. Anthony
Richard M. Nixon
2. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Prohibition
21st Amendment
Jonas Salk
3. No unlawful search and seizure.
4th Amendment
Segregation
Berlin Wall
Shirley Chisholm
4. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
The New Deal
10th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
5. Competition between European countries to create empires.
WPA
Populism
Imperialism
Nikita Kruschev
6. The prohibition of alcohol.
Muckrakers
Thomas Paine
18th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
7. United Farm Workers activist
16th Amendment
court packing
World War I
Cesar Chavez
8. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
The Baby Boom
Berlin Airlift
Korean War
9. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Martin Luther King Jr
Susan B. Anthony
Neil Armstrong
Charles Lindbergh
10. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Abraham Lincoln
SEC
Cesar Chavez
11. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Homestead Act
John J. Pershing
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Lindbergh
12. The right to a fast and public trial.
The Scopes Trial
Sputnik
6th Amendment
Cattle Drives
13. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
SEC
Spanish - American War
Muckrakers
Sacco and Vanzetti
14. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
16th Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
Emancipation Proclamation
15. Powers reserved to the states
10th Amendment
Containment
Separation of Powers
21st Amendment
16. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Paine
Imperialism
17. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Homestead Act
NATO (1959)
Rosa Parks
Woodrow Wilson
18. Established the federal income tax.
Neil Armstrong
14th Amendment
3rd Amendment
16th Amendment
19. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Martin Luther King Jr
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Harry S. Truman
Cattle Drives
20. 1939 - 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Viet Nam
World War II
Dawes Act
21. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Rough Riders
Separation of Powers
1st Amendment
Domino Theory
22. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Jim Crow laws
23. The right to vote for women.
GI Bill
Dwight D. Eisenhower
19thAmendment
George Wallace
24. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The New Deal
The War on Poverty
Industrialization
Battle of Midway
25. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Social Darwinism
22nd Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibition
26. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Cesar Chavez
Fidel Castro
Korean War
Great Compromise
27. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Joe McCarthy
Fidel Castro
court packing
George Washington
28. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Normandy
Domino Theory
5th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
29. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Harry S. Truman
Containment
6th Amendment
30. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
John Scopes
1st Amendment
Barbed wire
Gloria Steinem
31. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Thomas Jefferson
Calvin Coolidge
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
U-2 Incident
32. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
21st Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Georgia O'Keefe
33. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
The Great Migration
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Richard M. Nixon
6th Amendment
34. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
26th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Harlem Renaissance
John F. Kennedy
35. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Susan B. Anthony
Industrialization
Watergate
Truman Doctrine (1947)
36. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
Hoovervilles
Reconstruction
Pearl Harbor
37. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Martin Luther King Jr
Sputnik
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Bay of Pigs
38. Alternate term for 1920's.
Thomas Paine
Henry Ford
Island hopping
The Jazz Age
39. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Nikita Kruschev
Bobby Kennedy
Plessy v. Ferguson
WEB DuBois
40. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Abraham Lincoln
Lyndon B. Johnson
13th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
WPA
Double V Campaign
15th Amendment
Rough Riders
42. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Domino Theory
4th Amendment
Reconstruction
Great Society
43. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
The Harlem Renaissance
Manifest Destiny
Clarence Darrow
Homestead Act
44. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Georgia O'Keefe
Bay of Pigs
William Jennings Bryan
Richard M. Nixon
45. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Ronald Reagan
Berlin Airlift
Dust Bowl
Miranda v. Arizona
46. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
NATO (1959)
Political machines
1st Amendment
47. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Flappers
GI Bill
John Scopes
Watergate
48. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
Island hopping
Nikita Kruschev
15th Amendment
49. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
World War II
Normandy
Spanish - American War
50. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
George Wallace
19thAmendment
Columbian Exchange
Island hopping