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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
Double V Campaign
Imperialism
17th Amendment
2. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Washington
Muckrakers
Prohibition
George Wallace
3. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
21st Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Malcolm X
Charles Lindbergh
4. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
26th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
5. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
John Scopes
Cattle Drives
SEC
Island hopping
6. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
The New Deal
Double V Campaign
21st Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
7. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Henry Ford
Transcontinental railroad
Rough Riders
8. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Bobby Kennedy
Free Enterprise Economy
Omar Bradley
The Little Rock Nine
9. President during Roaring 20's
Henry Ford
Calvin Coolidge
16th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
10. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Plessy v. Ferguson
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
8th Amendment
11. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
WEB DuBois
Flappers
Nikita Kruschev
Berlin Airlift
12. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Immigration
The Articles of Confederation
Great Compromise
13. The prohibition of alcohol.
Federalism
SEC
Containment
18th Amendment
14. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
William H. Taft
Rosa Parks
Georgia O'Keefe
Free Enterprise Economy
15. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Fidel Castro
The Jazz Age
The War on Poverty
Escobedo v. Illinois
16. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Malcolm X
Reconstruction
George Washington
The Harlem Renaissance
17. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Truman Doctrine (1947)
SEC
Homestead Act
Escobedo v. Illinois
18. The right to vote for women.
World War I
Theodore Roosevelt
Benjamin Franklin
19thAmendment
19. President of the US during the Civil War.
9th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Dawes Act
Abraham Lincoln
20. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
14th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
WPA
Marshall Plan (1948)
21. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Transcontinental railroad
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
2nd Amendment
court packing
22. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
14th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Bay of Pigs
Reconstruction
23. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
William H. Taft
George Washington
John F. Kennedy
24. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
John Scopes
Richard M. Nixon
Susan B. Anthony
NATO (1959)
25. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Homestead Act
League of Nations
14th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
26. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Prohibition
Bay of Pigs
Teapot Dome Scandal
Marshall Plan (1948)
27. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Urbanization
Medger Evers
Rosa Parks
Domino Theory
28. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Georgia O'Keefe
Yellow Journalism
Battle of Midway
Neil Armstrong
29. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Imperialism
4th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
30. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Henry Ford
Federalism
Theodore Roosevelt
Homestead Act
31. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Laissez Faire
Rosa Parks
Sacco and Vanzetti
32. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
14th Amendment
Rough Riders
17th Amendment
Industrialization
33. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Bracero Program
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Joe McCarthy
Columbian Exchange
34. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Gideon v. Wainwright
13th Amendment
The Little Rock Nine
The War on Poverty
35. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Reynolds v. Sims
court packing
Charles Lindbergh
Federalist Papers
36. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
WPA
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Jazz Age
Upton Sinclair
37. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Urbanization
Warren G. Harding
Watergate
Thomas Paine
38. New York political machine boss.
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39. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Douglas MacArthur
NATO (1959)
The Rosenberg's
Reynolds v. Sims
40. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Containment
14th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
41. The right to a fast and public trial.
Harry S. Truman
6th Amendment
Samuel Adams
17th Amendment
42. Established the federal income tax.
Calvin Coolidge
U-2 Incident
Sputnik
16th Amendment
43. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Ronald Reagan
3rd Amendment
18th Amendment
5th Amendment
44. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
George Wallace
SEC
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
45. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
John F. Kennedy
6th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Immigration
46. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
William Jennings Bryan
Bay of Pigs
Trench Warfare
Booker T. Washington
47. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
Separation of Powers
Ronald Reagan
Great Society
48. Sets a term limit for the President
Cuban Missile Crisis
Command Economy
22nd Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
49. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Battle of Midway
Berlin Wall
Tenements
Reconstruction
50. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Spanish - American War
Free Enterprise Economy
Nullification Crisis
WEB DuBois