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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. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
Battle of Midway
Jonas Salk
Malcolm X
2. Competition between European countries to create empires.
George Wallace
Imperialism
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Thomas Jefferson
3. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Red Scare
Harry S. Truman
Federalist Papers
Truman Doctrine (1947)
4. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Watergate
24th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Tenements
5. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
Alfred Thayer Mahan
John F. Kennedy
Great Society
6. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
Thomas Jefferson
Flappers
18th Amendment
7. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
Escobedo v. Illinois
Joe McCarthy
Viet Nam
8. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
Treaty of Versailles
10th Amendment
22nd Amendment
9. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Normandy
Calvin Coolidge
Island hopping
Reynolds v. Sims
10. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Prohibition
Georgia O'Keefe
Upton Sinclair
11. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Fourteen Points
Baker v. Carr
Omar Bradley
Martin Luther King Jr
12. Sets a term limit for the President
Barbed wire
Hoovervilles
Treaty of Versailles
22nd Amendment
13. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Cesar Chavez
Cattle Drives
Reynolds v. Sims
14. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Clarence Darrow
Joe McCarthy
Medger Evers
5th Amendment
15. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
Populism
King George III
Malcolm X
16. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Command Economy
William H. Taft
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
17. Alternate term for 1920's.
Thomas Jefferson
The Jazz Age
Brown v. Board of Education
The Articles of Confederation
18. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Berlin Wall
Double V Campaign
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
NATO (1959)
19. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
Berlin Airlift
24th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
20. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
The New Deal
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
John Scopes
WEB DuBois
21. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Ronald Reagan
Reconstruction
The Articles of Confederation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
9th Amendment
Henry Ford
Malcolm X
Fidel Castro
23. American painter from 1920's
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24. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Martin Luther King Jr
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Samuel Adams
court packing
25. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Holocaust
Fidel Castro
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Thomas Paine
26. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Emancipation Proclamation
Red Scare
Marshall Plan (1948)
Manifest Destiny
27. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Great Compromise
Bay of Pigs
5th Amendment
28. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Jacob Riis
Berlin Wall
17th Amendment
Great Society
29. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Alfred Thayer Mahan
court packing
Richard M. Nixon
30. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Civil War
Manifest Destiny
Flappers
16th Amendment
31. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Flappers
U.S.S. Maine
Douglas MacArthur
8th Amendment
32. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
William Jennings Bryan
GI Bill
Baker v. Carr
Cuban Missile Crisis
33. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Rough Riders
GI Bill
Laissez Faire
Fourteen Points
34. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
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35. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Plessy v. Ferguson
Calvin Coolidge
Douglas MacArthur
36. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Battle of Midway
Dwight D. Eisenhower
37. President during Roaring 20's
16th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
The Rosenberg's
17th Amendment
38. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
NATO (1959)
Bracero Program
Medger Evers
17th Amendment
39. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Homestead Act
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Cuban Missile Crisis
40. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Berlin Wall
Social Darwinism
Trench Warfare
41. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Bobby Kennedy
George Wallace
5th Amendment
Spanish - American War
42. No unlawful search and seizure.
WEB DuBois
William H. Taft
4th Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
43. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
World War II
World War I
Containment
Thomas Paine
44. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
13th Amendment
Barbed wire
Pearl Harbor
Island hopping
45. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
U-2 Incident
Emancipation Proclamation
Imperialism
46. Abolished the poll tax.
The Holocaust
George Wallace
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
24th Amendment
47. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Abraham Lincoln
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Double V Campaign
Checks and Balances
48. New York political machine boss.
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49. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Andrew Carnegie
King George III
Trench Warfare
19thAmendment
50. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Charles Lindbergh
Brown v. Board of Education
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
22nd Amendment