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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. No quartering of troops during peace time
Berlin Wall
Gloria Steinem
Imperialism
3rd Amendment
2. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
19thAmendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
Industrialization
3. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
John F. Kennedy
26th Amendment
17th Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
The War on Poverty
9th Amendment
Cattle Drives
NATO (1959)
5. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Bobby Kennedy
Thomas Paine
Domino Theory
The Harlem Renaissance
6. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Federalism
Urbanization
7th Amendment
7. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Jacob Riis
Samuel Adams
Emancipation Proclamation
8. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Martin Luther King Jr
Containment
Industrialization
SEC
9. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Homestead Act
John Scopes
William H. Taft
Dust Bowl
10. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Miranda v. Arizona
Manifest Destiny
Jim Crow laws
Free Enterprise Economy
11. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Great Migration
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Baby Boom
Abraham Lincoln
12. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Charles Lindbergh
Joe McCarthy
Red Scare
Brown v. Board of Education
13. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Shirley Chisholm
Spanish - American War
Command Economy
14. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
8th Amendment
Medger Evers
Battle of Wounded Knee
15. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
FDIC
Ronald Reagan
15th Amendment
Malcolm X
16. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Jonas Salk
court packing
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
2nd Amendment
17. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
Political machines
Federalist Papers
Baker v. Carr
18. Established the federal income tax.
16th Amendment
21st Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
League of Nations
19. Rights reserved to the people.
Susan B. Anthony
9th Amendment
Barbed wire
Cesar Chavez
20. United Farm Workers activist
Separation of Powers
Marshall Plan (1948)
Checks and Balances
Cesar Chavez
21. The right to vote for women.
Double V Campaign
19thAmendment
Nikita Kruschev
Columbian Exchange
22. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Industrialization
Fidel Castro
Viet Nam
23. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Martin Luther King Jr
Pearl Harbor
World War I
Booker T. Washington
24. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Calvin Coolidge
Cattle Drives
The Great Migration
Barbed wire
25. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Ronald Reagan
Command Economy
Columbian Exchange
Immigration
26. New York political machine boss.
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27. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Free Enterprise Economy
Sacco and Vanzetti
Viet Nam
Watergate
28. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Fourteen Points
Truman Doctrine (1947)
King George III
Charles Lindbergh
29. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Spanish - American War
Calvin Coolidge
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Sputnik
30. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
Great Society
Gideon v. Wainwright
31. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Red Scare
Treaty of Versailles
Reconstruction
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
32. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Warren G. Harding
17th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Clarence Darrow
33. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Domino Theory
King George III
Homestead Act
34. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Barbed wire
Great Compromise
13th Amendment
35. 1914 - 1918
World War I
Miranda v. Arizona
22nd Amendment
Nullification Crisis
36. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
Homestead Act
Jacob Riis
NATO (1959)
37. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Teapot Dome Scandal
NATO (1959)
Benjamin Franklin
Cuban Missile Crisis
38. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Transcontinental railroad
9th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
The War on Poverty
39. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Trench Warfare
SEC
Great Society
Rosa Parks
40. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Homestead Act
14th Amendment
Urbanization
41. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
SEC
Hoovervilles
Clarence Darrow
Thomas Jefferson
42. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
18th Amendment
Tenements
Henry Ford
Fourteen Points
43. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
Rough Riders
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Imperialism
44. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Transcontinental railroad
The Holocaust
8th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
45. Communist leader of Cuba.
Tenements
Fidel Castro
Treaty of Versailles
U-2 Incident
46. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Booker T. Washington
21st Amendment
47. Separation by race.
SEC
Segregation
Columbian Exchange
Brown v. Board of Education
48. Alternate term for 1920's.
Great Society
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
The Jazz Age
8th Amendment
49. Trial by jury.
William Jennings Bryan
Woodrow Wilson
Trench Warfare
7th Amendment
50. Abolished slavery
The War on Poverty
Plessy v. Ferguson
Cuban Missile Crisis
13th Amendment