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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Benjamin Franklin
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
16th Amendment
2. Invented the vaccine for polio
World War II
Nullification Crisis
Federalist Papers
Jonas Salk
3. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Elvis Presley
Cesar Chavez
Immigration
6th Amendment
4. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Richard M. Nixon
13th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Free Enterprise Economy
5. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Charles Lindbergh
Battle of Wounded Knee
Berlin Wall
Samuel Adams
6. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
John Scopes
Great Compromise
Calvin Coolidge
The Great Migration
7. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
League of Nations
The Jazz Age
court packing
Prohibition
8. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
7th Amendment
Thomas Paine
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Calvin Coolidge
9. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
14th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Political machines
Jacob Riis
10. 1860 - 1865
Immigration
Muckrakers
Henry Ford
Civil War
11. President during Roaring 20's
Cattle Drives
Calvin Coolidge
Berlin Airlift
Neil Armstrong
12. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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13. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Rough Riders
The Rosenberg's
14. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Jonas Salk
Tenements
22nd Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
15. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Charles Lindbergh
Fourteen Points
William H. Taft
16. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
Plessy v. Ferguson
6th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
17. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
The New Deal
Richard M. Nixon
Double V Campaign
18. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Upton Sinclair
World War I
Battle of Wounded Knee
Treaty of Versailles
19. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Shirley Chisholm
Yellow Journalism
Douglas MacArthur
Truman Doctrine (1947)
20. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Fidel Castro
The Holocaust
Fourteen Points
21. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Theodore Roosevelt
Dawes Act
King George III
Federalism
22. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Ronald Reagan
Segregation
Federalist Papers
23. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Harry S. Truman
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The War on Poverty
Free Enterprise Economy
24. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
The Articles of Confederation
9th Amendment
Douglas MacArthur
25. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
George Wallace
William H. Taft
The New Deal
Dust Bowl
26. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
15th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Calvin Coolidge
27. No cruel or unusual punishment.
George Wallace
8th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Great Compromise
28. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Calvin Coolidge
Populism
Dawes Act
The Baby Boom
29. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Separation of Powers
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Warren G. Harding
30. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Medger Evers
U-2 Incident
The War on Poverty
Prohibition
31. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Richard M. Nixon
Woodrow Wilson
7th Amendment
Malcolm X
32. Trial by jury.
The Baby Boom
Berlin Wall
Sacco and Vanzetti
7th Amendment
33. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
22nd Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Social Darwinism
Gideon v. Wainwright
34. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Hoovervilles
Harry S. Truman
Emancipation Proclamation
7th Amendment
35. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Red Scare
Command Economy
Nikita Kruschev
Watergate
36. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Harlem Renaissance
Henry Ford
Fidel Castro
37. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
Samuel Adams
Shirley Chisholm
Segregation
38. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Harlem Renaissance
The Scopes Trial
John F. Kennedy
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
39. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
Sputnik
17th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
40. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Fidel Castro
Cattle Drives
Political machines
George Wallace
41. Powers reserved to the states
Miranda v. Arizona
Charles Lindbergh
10th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
42. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Berlin Wall
Berlin Airlift
SEC
Homestead Act
43. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
The War on Poverty
Battle of Wounded Knee
6th Amendment
1st Amendment
44. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Double V Campaign
Domino Theory
Command Economy
7th Amendment
45. Rights reserved to the people.
8th Amendment
Normandy
9th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
46. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Battle of Wounded Knee
Pearl Harbor
Marshall Plan (1948)
21st Amendment
47. Progressive president who served during WW I.
13th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
Elvis Presley
Columbian Exchange
48. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
6th Amendment
Double V Campaign
Richard M. Nixon
William Jennings Bryan
49. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Upton Sinclair
Miranda v. Arizona
Social Darwinism
WEB DuBois
50. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Benjamin Franklin
Marshall Plan (1948)
Social Darwinism