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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 belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Red Scare
Manifest Destiny
Douglas MacArthur
15th Amendment
2. American painter from 1920's
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3. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Abraham Lincoln
Segregation
Andrew Carnegie
16th Amendment
4. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
World War I
Berlin Airlift
Tenements
The Rosenberg's
5. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
21st Amendment
Fidel Castro
Elvis Presley
6. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
24th Amendment
Domino Theory
Trench Warfare
Double V Campaign
7. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
2nd Amendment
The Holocaust
Political machines
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
8. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Dawes Act
Gloria Steinem
Escobedo v. Illinois
John J. Pershing
9. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Tenements
Containment
Bobby Kennedy
John Scopes
10. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Fidel Castro
Neil Armstrong
1st Amendment
11. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
21st Amendment
John J. Pershing
Flappers
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
12. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Sputnik
3rd Amendment
Neil Armstrong
13. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Washington
Federalism
6th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
14. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
World War II
Cattle Drives
Medger Evers
15. Founding father - politician - scientist
Muckrakers
Benjamin Franklin
Tenements
Alfred Thayer Mahan
16. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
14th Amendment
Barbed wire
John Scopes
17. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Trench Warfare
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Harlem Renaissance
Omar Bradley
18. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
Treaty of Versailles
1st Amendment
Jim Crow laws
19. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Island hopping
U.S.S. Maine
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Samuel Adams
20. 1939 - 1945
Tenements
World War II
4th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
21. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
John F. Kennedy
Fidel Castro
The Little Rock Nine
Harry S. Truman
22. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Marshall Plan (1948)
Elvis Presley
Fourteen Points
23. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Watergate
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
William Jennings Bryan
24. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
6th Amendment
8th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
14th Amendment
25. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Barbed wire
15th Amendment
George Washington
Muckrakers
26. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Fourteen Points
Henry Ford
Spanish - American War
Normandy
27. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Susan B. Anthony
6th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Great Compromise
28. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
The Harlem Renaissance
Populism
Sputnik
Thomas Jefferson
29. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Fourteen Points
Viet Nam
Baker v. Carr
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
30. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Theodore Roosevelt
Urbanization
The New Deal
Hoovervilles
31. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Homestead Act
Spanish - American War
Dawes Act
5th Amendment
32. Right to bear arms
14th Amendment
10th Amendment
SEC
2nd Amendment
33. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Normandy
Theodore Roosevelt
Nikita Kruschev
Gideon v. Wainwright
34. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Jacob Riis
Tenements
Nikita Kruschev
Bill of Rights
35. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
court packing
WEB DuBois
Transcontinental railroad
Elvis Presley
36. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Martin Luther King Jr
Medger Evers
Malcolm X
Thomas Paine
37. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Tenements
17th Amendment
Normandy
Watergate
38. No cruel or unusual punishment.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Upton Sinclair
8th Amendment
Bracero Program
39. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Richard M. Nixon
2nd Amendment
Warren G. Harding
U.S.S. Maine
40. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Gideon v. Wainwright
NATO (1959)
Berlin Airlift
Bracero Program
41. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
The Scopes Trial
19thAmendment
Shirley Chisholm
Malcolm X
42. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
League of Nations
Joe McCarthy
5th Amendment
43. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
FDIC
Neil Armstrong
Berlin Airlift
Samuel Adams
44. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Ronald Reagan
22nd Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Brown v. Board of Education
45. No unlawful search and seizure.
18th Amendment
Jonas Salk
4th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
46. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
18th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
Jacob Riis
47. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
Spanish - American War
Imperialism
19thAmendment
48. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Upton Sinclair
King George III
U-2 Incident
18th Amendment
49. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
19thAmendment
Nikita Kruschev
50. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
21st Amendment
League of Nations
Barbed wire
The Civil Rights Act of 1964