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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Separation by race.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
U.S.S. Maine
Segregation
14th Amendment
2. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Brown v. Board of Education
Jacob Riis
Yellow Journalism
3. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Abraham Lincoln
Douglas MacArthur
SEC
3rd Amendment
4. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Political machines
Domino Theory
Barbed wire
Berlin Wall
5. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Separation of Powers
Watergate
Civil War
6. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Reynolds v. Sims
Tenements
Bobby Kennedy
Treaty of Versailles
7. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Normandy
Federalism
Separation of Powers
Malcolm X
8. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
9. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
7th Amendment
Medger Evers
Spanish - American War
10. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Midway
Columbian Exchange
The Little Rock Nine
11. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Great Society
King George III
Transcontinental railroad
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
12. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Trench Warfare
Thomas Jefferson
13. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Federalism
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
John J. Pershing
14. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Separation of Powers
Plessy v. Ferguson
9th Amendment
15. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
U.S.S. Maine
Bracero Program
George Wallace
Battle of Wounded Knee
16. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
William Jennings Bryan
The Harlem Renaissance
Civil War
Red Scare
17. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
21st Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
22nd Amendment
Urbanization
18. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Benjamin Franklin
Sacco and Vanzetti
Dawes Act
Domino Theory
19. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
The Holocaust
Miranda v. Arizona
SEC
Dwight D. Eisenhower
20. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Neil Armstrong
21st Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Miranda v. Arizona
21. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
16th Amendment
Elvis Presley
John J. Pershing
George Wallace
22. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Rosenberg's
3rd Amendment
The Jazz Age
Laissez Faire
23. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Treaty of Versailles
26th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
24. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Cesar Chavez
John F. Kennedy
Checks and Balances
25. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
Joe McCarthy
Brown v. Board of Education
26. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Reconstruction
Immigration
Charles Lindbergh
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
27. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Political machines
Susan B. Anthony
William Jennings Bryan
Separation of Powers
28. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
18th Amendment
14th Amendment
Island hopping
7th Amendment
29. The right to vote for women.
Sputnik
19thAmendment
Hoovervilles
Ronald Reagan
30. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
The Holocaust
The New Deal
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Viet Nam
31. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Nikita Kruschev
Free Enterprise Economy
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
32. President of the US during the Civil War.
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Calvin Coolidge
33. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Plessy v. Ferguson
34. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Teapot Dome Scandal
Calvin Coolidge
The Holocaust
Nullification Crisis
35. No unlawful search and seizure.
1st Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
17th Amendment
4th Amendment
36. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Douglas MacArthur
Political machines
Industrialization
The Scopes Trial
37. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Berlin Wall
6th Amendment
John J. Pershing
Watergate
38. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
26th Amendment
court packing
1st Amendment
Viet Nam
39. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
3rd Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Teapot Dome Scandal
Theodore Roosevelt
40. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
The Little Rock Nine
Elvis Presley
Henry Ford
Reynolds v. Sims
41. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
Sputnik
Spanish - American War
Medger Evers
42. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
John F. Kennedy
Charles Lindbergh
Spanish - American War
43. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
The Scopes Trial
League of Nations
William H. Taft
44. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Omar Bradley
26th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Bobby Kennedy
45. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Little Rock Nine
Henry Ford
Neil Armstrong
The Scopes Trial
46. Early rock n ' roll performer
Joe McCarthy
George Washington
Elvis Presley
15th Amendment
47. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Georgia O'Keefe
Marshall Plan (1948)
The New Deal
13th Amendment
48. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
16th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
Woodrow Wilson
court packing
49. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Nullification Crisis
26th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
Shirley Chisholm
50. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Federalism
Lyndon B. Johnson
William H. Taft