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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. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Jim Crow laws
U-2 Incident
Watergate
The Harlem Renaissance
2. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bobby Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
3. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Immigration
Henry Ford
Gloria Steinem
WEB DuBois
4. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Andrew Carnegie
9th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Separation of Powers
John Scopes
16th Amendment
Urbanization
6. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
The War on Poverty
Flappers
14th Amendment
7. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Populism
William H. Taft
Jonas Salk
Tenements
8. The right to a fast and public trial.
Pearl Harbor
Federalism
6th Amendment
Henry Ford
9. Trial by jury.
Trench Warfare
Harry S. Truman
7th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
10. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Prohibition
Susan B. Anthony
7th Amendment
11. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Great Society
John J. Pershing
Neil Armstrong
12. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Social Darwinism
26th Amendment
Berlin Wall
13. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Neil Armstrong
Normandy
The Little Rock Nine
Malcolm X
14. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
William H. Taft
Columbian Exchange
Battle of Midway
Lyndon B. Johnson
15. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Separation of Powers
John Scopes
Domino Theory
Barbed wire
16. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
The New Deal
The Scopes Trial
Viet Nam
Susan B. Anthony
17. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Escobedo v. Illinois
Industrialization
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Samuel Adams
18. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Dust Bowl
Emancipation Proclamation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Checks and Balances
19. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Jonas Salk
Urbanization
Reconstruction
8th Amendment
20. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
The War on Poverty
Bill of Rights
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Korean War
21. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Berlin Airlift
Normandy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The New Deal
22. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Fidel Castro
Upton Sinclair
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
23. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
15th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
Reynolds v. Sims
George Wallace
24. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Separation of Powers
Federalism
Columbian Exchange
25. President 1980-88.
League of Nations
Susan B. Anthony
Segregation
Ronald Reagan
26. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Calvin Coolidge
Abraham Lincoln
Nullification Crisis
NATO (1959)
27. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
Theodore Roosevelt
Reconstruction
Island hopping
28. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Great Society
William Jennings Bryan
1st Amendment
Red Scare
29. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Joe McCarthy
Rosa Parks
The Great Migration
Double V Campaign
30. Separation by race.
Dawes Act
Federalist Papers
Segregation
Spanish - American War
31. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Jonas Salk
Bracero Program
Industrialization
32. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Containment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Barbed wire
33. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
Cuban Missile Crisis
Great Compromise
Manifest Destiny
34. No cruel or unusual punishment.
William 'Boss' Tweed
8th Amendment
Thomas Paine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
35. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
Island hopping
Richard M. Nixon
Rosa Parks
36. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
Federalism
Red Scare
Martin Luther King Jr
37. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
GI Bill
Separation of Powers
21st Amendment
Command Economy
38. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Rosa Parks
Plessy v. Ferguson
2nd Amendment
League of Nations
39. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
18th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Dust Bowl
GI Bill
40. President during Roaring 20's
Douglas MacArthur
Fidel Castro
Calvin Coolidge
Theodore Roosevelt
41. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dawes Act
Korean War
42. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Reconstruction
Separation of Powers
Flappers
43. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
The Harlem Renaissance
Segregation
Martin Luther King Jr
Political machines
44. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Medger Evers
Spanish - American War
Dawes Act
Reynolds v. Sims
45. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
1st Amendment
Great Compromise
Sputnik
46. The prohibition of alcohol.
The Baby Boom
court packing
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
18th Amendment
47. Communist leader of Cuba.
14th Amendment
Fidel Castro
King George III
George Wallace
48. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Federalism
Bracero Program
Booker T. Washington
49. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
Urbanization
Medger Evers
Laissez Faire
50. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Thomas Jefferson
Upton Sinclair
The Jazz Age
John Scopes