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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. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Political machines
The Articles of Confederation
14th Amendment
Normandy
2. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
World War II
Red Scare
Watergate
GI Bill
3. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Harry S. Truman
Watergate
Jonas Salk
Dust Bowl
4. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Malcolm X
Containment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Rosenberg's
5. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
3rd Amendment
Yellow Journalism
Martin Luther King Jr
6. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Clarence Darrow
Nullification Crisis
Prohibition
The Rosenberg's
7. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Omar Bradley
Tenements
Bay of Pigs
8. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Imperialism
Battle of Wounded Knee
Abraham Lincoln
Rough Riders
9. Invented the vaccine for polio
Domino Theory
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jonas Salk
The Baby Boom
10. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Brown v. Board of Education
19thAmendment
5th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
11. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
U.S.S. Maine
Flappers
William 'Boss' Tweed
George Washington
12. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Marshall Plan (1948)
Columbian Exchange
Bobby Kennedy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
13. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
George Wallace
The Harlem Renaissance
10th Amendment
George Washington
14. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Great Compromise
Viet Nam
Homestead Act
Industrialization
15. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
WPA
Checks and Balances
Susan B. Anthony
Sputnik
16. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
World War I
Miranda v. Arizona
King George III
The Little Rock Nine
17. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
Sputnik
Transcontinental railroad
Bracero Program
18. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Woodrow Wilson
court packing
George Washington
Rosa Parks
19. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
John J. Pershing
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
20. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Treaty of Versailles
Thomas Paine
court packing
William H. Taft
21. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Richard M. Nixon
Brown v. Board of Education
8th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
22. Abolished slavery
Gideon v. Wainwright
Marshall Plan (1948)
Shirley Chisholm
13th Amendment
23. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Laissez Faire
Rough Riders
Richard M. Nixon
24. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Articles of Confederation
Gloria Steinem
Charles Lindbergh
The Scopes Trial
25. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Teapot Dome Scandal
Charles Lindbergh
Berlin Wall
Viet Nam
26. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
William Jennings Bryan
7th Amendment
William H. Taft
Omar Bradley
27. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
The New Deal
Miranda v. Arizona
Pearl Harbor
Island hopping
28. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
George Wallace
Miranda v. Arizona
Rough Riders
Transcontinental railroad
29. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
Berlin Airlift
Island hopping
Dwight D. Eisenhower
30. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
19thAmendment
The Rosenberg's
League of Nations
31. The direct election of US Senators.
Yellow Journalism
U-2 Incident
17th Amendment
court packing
32. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Charles Lindbergh
Gloria Steinem
Jacob Riis
Calvin Coolidge
33. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
1st Amendment
Great Compromise
8th Amendment
Henry Ford
34. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
10th Amendment
Homestead Act
GI Bill
Manifest Destiny
35. Established the federal income tax.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Reynolds v. Sims
Watergate
16th Amendment
36. President 1963-68
Martin Luther King Jr
8th Amendment
Spanish - American War
Lyndon B. Johnson
37. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
The Articles of Confederation
Alfred Thayer Mahan
SEC
Korean War
38. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Industrialization
League of Nations
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
39. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
16th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Harry S. Truman
Upton Sinclair
40. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
World War II
Battle of Midway
Andrew Carnegie
John J. Pershing
41. Separation by race.
Tenements
Segregation
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Paine
42. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
Dust Bowl
18th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
43. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Booker T. Washington
Brown v. Board of Education
44. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
GI Bill
SEC
Pearl Harbor
45. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
The Baby Boom
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sacco and Vanzetti
Thomas Paine
46. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
10th Amendment
Political machines
Spanish - American War
Theodore Roosevelt
47. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Urbanization
Cattle Drives
Industrialization
The New Deal
48. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nikita Kruschev
Gloria Steinem
Thomas Paine
49. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
The Holocaust
8th Amendment
17th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
50. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Red Scare
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Rosenberg's
Reconstruction