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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Industrialization
Jonas Salk
7th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
2. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
John Scopes
Miranda v. Arizona
Medger Evers
Samuel Adams
3. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
The Little Rock Nine
Neil Armstrong
Benjamin Franklin
Tenements
4. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
15th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Sacco and Vanzetti
U.S.S. Maine
5. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Thomas Jefferson
Jim Crow laws
Jacob Riis
Woodrow Wilson
6. Founding father - politician - scientist
Trench Warfare
Nikita Kruschev
Benjamin Franklin
The Rosenberg's
7. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Fourteen Points
Nullification Crisis
George Washington
King George III
8. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Miranda v. Arizona
5th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
The Articles of Confederation
9. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Domino Theory
Warren G. Harding
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great Society
10. Trial by jury.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Ronald Reagan
7th Amendment
11. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
GI Bill
John Scopes
Battle of Midway
Joe McCarthy
12. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
SEC
William H. Taft
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Carnegie
13. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
Imperialism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Sacco and Vanzetti
14. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
19thAmendment
Warren G. Harding
Abraham Lincoln
15. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
14th Amendment
Urbanization
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Reconstruction
16. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Red Scare
Jacob Riis
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. President of the US during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Marshall Plan (1948)
Urbanization
Barbed wire
18. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Jonas Salk
John J. Pershing
Cuban Missile Crisis
21st Amendment
19. No unlawful search and seizure.
The War on Poverty
4th Amendment
16th Amendment
John J. Pershing
20. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Berlin Wall
Henry Ford
Medger Evers
21. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
The Articles of Confederation
The War on Poverty
Marshall Plan (1948)
22. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
22nd Amendment
WEB DuBois
Warren G. Harding
Bill of Rights
23. Early rock n ' roll performer
Federalism
Elvis Presley
18th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
24. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
WEB DuBois
NATO (1959)
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
25. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Clarence Darrow
14th Amendment
9th Amendment
Berlin Wall
26. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Spanish - American War
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Harlem Renaissance
27. Alternate term for 1920's.
Industrialization
Great Compromise
Harry S. Truman
The Jazz Age
28. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
John F. Kennedy
Jacob Riis
Alfred Thayer Mahan
World War I
29. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
World War I
Flappers
Douglas MacArthur
7th Amendment
30. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
17th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
Social Darwinism
31. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
Marshall Plan (1948)
18th Amendment
League of Nations
32. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Escobedo v. Illinois
2nd Amendment
George Washington
Free Enterprise Economy
33. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Gloria Steinem
Prohibition
Omar Bradley
34. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Cattle Drives
Bay of Pigs
Brown v. Board of Education
Checks and Balances
35. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Separation of Powers
Double V Campaign
John Scopes
Douglas MacArthur
36. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
WPA
The Holocaust
U-2 Incident
1st Amendment
37. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Social Darwinism
Dust Bowl
Teapot Dome Scandal
Sacco and Vanzetti
38. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
The War on Poverty
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Manifest Destiny
39. Abolished slavery
Upton Sinclair
8th Amendment
13th Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
40. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
League of Nations
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Teapot Dome Scandal
The War on Poverty
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
42. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Battle of Wounded Knee
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Fourteen Points
43. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Bobby Kennedy
Free Enterprise Economy
Treaty of Versailles
Sputnik
44. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
21st Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948)
45. Communist leader of Cuba.
World War II
Fourteen Points
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Fidel Castro
46. 1860 - 1865
Civil War
Treaty of Versailles
8th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
47. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The New Deal
NATO (1959)
Rosa Parks
48. New York political machine boss.
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49. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Checks and Balances
Barbed wire
15th Amendment
William H. Taft
50. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
The Little Rock Nine
Watergate
Flappers
Great Compromise