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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Brown v. Board of Education
The Jazz Age
Tenements
2. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Island hopping
U.S.S. Maine
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Charles Lindbergh
3. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
The Little Rock Nine
Cattle Drives
14th Amendment
Bracero Program
4. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Fourteen Points
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
13th Amendment
The New Deal
5. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Douglas MacArthur
King George III
Nikita Kruschev
1st Amendment
6. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Reynolds v. Sims
Sputnik
The War on Poverty
7. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Samuel Adams
Harry S. Truman
Jacob Riis
Tenements
8. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
The Jazz Age
Flappers
Jacob Riis
Booker T. Washington
9. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
6th Amendment
Federalist Papers
Bobby Kennedy
18th Amendment
10. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Urbanization
Susan B. Anthony
5th Amendment
The War on Poverty
11. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Korean War
The Baby Boom
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William Jennings Bryan
12. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Sputnik
The Rosenberg's
Truman Doctrine (1947)
13. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Spanish - American War
Red Scare
Double V Campaign
14. The direct election of US Senators.
Transcontinental railroad
17th Amendment
Muckrakers
Industrialization
15. Established the federal income tax.
The Scopes Trial
Domino Theory
16th Amendment
NATO (1959)
16. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Jim Crow laws
Medger Evers
court packing
Andrew Carnegie
17. Power is shared between the states and national government.
26th Amendment
Federalism
Domino Theory
Checks and Balances
18. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
John F. Kennedy
Douglas MacArthur
Bay of Pigs
Civil War
19. President during Roaring 20's
Laissez Faire
Jacob Riis
Calvin Coolidge
Checks and Balances
20. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
World War II
SEC
Malcolm X
21. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
Imperialism
John J. Pershing
Industrialization
22. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Neil Armstrong
King George III
Nullification Crisis
The Articles of Confederation
23. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Berlin Airlift
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Korean War
John F. Kennedy
24. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
League of Nations
Booker T. Washington
2nd Amendment
SEC
25. The prohibition of alcohol.
Medger Evers
18th Amendment
William H. Taft
Omar Bradley
26. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
World War II
Free Enterprise Economy
WEB DuBois
FDIC
27. Powers reserved to the states
Federalist Papers
10th Amendment
1st Amendment
Trench Warfare
28. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Bracero Program
Shirley Chisholm
Gloria Steinem
Medger Evers
29. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Douglas MacArthur
Reconstruction
Reynolds v. Sims
30. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Domino Theory
William 'Boss' Tweed
Teapot Dome Scandal
GI Bill
31. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Scopes Trial
8th Amendment
Domino Theory
32. Communist leader of Cuba.
Nullification Crisis
The Great Migration
Watergate
Fidel Castro
33. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
WEB DuBois
George Washington
Clarence Darrow
34. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Federalism
Neil Armstrong
Baker v. Carr
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
League of Nations
Berlin Wall
U.S.S. Maine
36. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Normandy
The Little Rock Nine
3rd Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
37. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
Yellow Journalism
Containment
Miranda v. Arizona
38. Abolished slavery
Dawes Act
Martin Luther King Jr
George Washington
13th Amendment
39. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Miranda v. Arizona
Rosa Parks
Immigration
40. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Normandy
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
19thAmendment
Pearl Harbor
41. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
26th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
Susan B. Anthony
42. American painter from 1920's
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43. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Populism
Samuel Adams
Battle of Wounded Knee
44. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Nullification Crisis
Dust Bowl
John J. Pershing
Columbian Exchange
45. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Reconstruction
Federalist Papers
Rough Riders
46. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Great Compromise
Harry S. Truman
The Baby Boom
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
47. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Normandy
Jim Crow laws
Tenements
Abraham Lincoln
48. 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
Thomas Paine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bracero Program
49. United Farm Workers activist
Jonas Salk
The Baby Boom
Cesar Chavez
Watergate
50. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Jonas Salk
William Jennings Bryan
Warren G. Harding
Malcolm X