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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
The New Deal
Medger Evers
Laissez Faire
2. The direct election of US Senators.
Trench Warfare
World War II
17th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
3. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Cattle Drives
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Harlem Renaissance
Jacob Riis
4. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
16th Amendment
5. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
7th Amendment
17th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Scopes Trial
6. Competition between European countries to create empires.
22nd Amendment
Urbanization
Imperialism
Cattle Drives
7. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Richard M. Nixon
The New Deal
Populism
Dawes Act
8. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
Neil Armstrong
Emancipation Proclamation
Manifest Destiny
9. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Command Economy
William H. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Paine
10. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Treaty of Versailles
William H. Taft
Spanish - American War
FDIC
11. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
John F. Kennedy
The Jazz Age
Federalist Papers
Imperialism
12. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Checks and Balances
George Wallace
1st Amendment
13. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Spanish - American War
The Articles of Confederation
court packing
Charles Lindbergh
14. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Command Economy
2nd Amendment
SEC
Joe McCarthy
15. Powers reserved to the states
NATO (1959)
Yellow Journalism
Laissez Faire
10th Amendment
16. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Brown v. Board of Education
Treaty of Versailles
Woodrow Wilson
William H. Taft
17. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Gloria Steinem
Gideon v. Wainwright
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
18. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
William Jennings Bryan
Ronald Reagan
The Holocaust
19. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Malcolm X
Battle of Wounded Knee
Gloria Steinem
20. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Rosenberg's
Dawes Act
21. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
George Washington
Bobby Kennedy
Double V Campaign
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
22. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Barbed wire
Reynolds v. Sims
Gideon v. Wainwright
23. President 1963-68
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Charles Lindbergh
Lyndon B. Johnson
Escobedo v. Illinois
24. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
Checks and Balances
Muckrakers
2nd Amendment
25. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
The Scopes Trial
John J. Pershing
NATO (1959)
Gideon v. Wainwright
26. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Bill of Rights
Populism
WEB DuBois
Berlin Airlift
27. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
WPA
Ronald Reagan
Free Enterprise Economy
28. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Transcontinental railroad
Jim Crow laws
The Jazz Age
Homestead Act
29. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
13th Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
5th Amendment
Populism
30. President 1980-88.
14th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Populism
31. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
WPA
Pearl Harbor
King George III
Brown v. Board of Education
32. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Thomas Jefferson
Jim Crow laws
Immigration
John Scopes
33. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
5th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Reconstruction
NATO (1959)
34. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
WPA
7th Amendment
William H. Taft
Marshall Plan (1948)
35. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
George Washington
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Truman Doctrine (1947)
36. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Woodrow Wilson
WEB DuBois
John Scopes
Baker v. Carr
37. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Reynolds v. Sims
WEB DuBois
John Scopes
38. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
King George III
26th Amendment
The Jazz Age
Normandy
39. Right to bear arms
George Wallace
Bill of Rights
2nd Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
40. 1860 - 1865
22nd Amendment
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
Civil War
41. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Andrew Carnegie
FDIC
William 'Boss' Tweed
42. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Jacob Riis
Korean War
Hoovervilles
Watergate
43. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
18th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
Andrew Carnegie
Georgia O'Keefe
44. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Bill of Rights
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Fourteen Points
45. American painter from 1920's
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46. No unlawful search and seizure.
Social Darwinism
5th Amendment
George Wallace
4th Amendment
47. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
Columbian Exchange
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
7th Amendment
48. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Great Society
Urbanization
Manifest Destiny
Woodrow Wilson
49. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
Free Enterprise Economy
24th Amendment
court packing
50. The right to a fast and public trial.
Theodore Roosevelt
6th Amendment
Containment
Populism