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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Abolished the poll tax.
Gloria Steinem
24th Amendment
18th Amendment
Reconstruction
2. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
24th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
The Little Rock Nine
Ronald Reagan
3. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Transcontinental railroad
17th Amendment
4. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The War on Poverty
Teapot Dome Scandal
Escobedo v. Illinois
5. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Island hopping
Marshall Plan (1948)
2nd Amendment
The Great Migration
6. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
WPA
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
World War II
Fourteen Points
7. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
15th Amendment
Viet Nam
Free Enterprise Economy
Double V Campaign
8. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Gideon v. Wainwright
John Scopes
Immigration
17th Amendment
9. 1860 - 1865
Hoovervilles
Civil War
19thAmendment
Dawes Act
10. No cruel or unusual punishment.
15th Amendment
Bracero Program
Red Scare
8th Amendment
11. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
The Baby Boom
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
John J. Pershing
Barbed wire
12. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
8th Amendment
Dust Bowl
U-2 Incident
13. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Charles Lindbergh
3rd Amendment
Double V Campaign
14. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education
19thAmendment
court packing
15. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Barbed wire
5th Amendment
Tenements
Battle of Midway
16. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Brown v. Board of Education
WEB DuBois
Battle of Wounded Knee
Pearl Harbor
17. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
Great Compromise
Clarence Darrow
Spanish - American War
18. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Thomas Jefferson
Battle of Wounded Knee
court packing
Gloria Steinem
19. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
Double V Campaign
Rosa Parks
Thomas Jefferson
20. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Andrew Carnegie
Bobby Kennedy
William 'Boss' Tweed
21. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Imperialism
Cattle Drives
SEC
Yellow Journalism
22. No quartering of troops during peace time
Populism
Joe McCarthy
3rd Amendment
George Wallace
23. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Dust Bowl
Booker T. Washington
Reconstruction
Muckrakers
24. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Free Enterprise Economy
Korean War
Columbian Exchange
Malcolm X
25. The right to a fast and public trial.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Watergate
6th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
26. First astronaut to land on the moon.
The Scopes Trial
Neil Armstrong
The Baby Boom
NATO (1959)
27. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Baker v. Carr
Trench Warfare
Upton Sinclair
Douglas MacArthur
28. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
George Washington
Rosa Parks
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Command Economy
29. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Warren G. Harding
Teapot Dome Scandal
Command Economy
Thomas Jefferson
30. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
18th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Henry Ford
17th Amendment
31. Abolished slavery
Samuel Adams
Island hopping
13th Amendment
Rosa Parks
32. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
The Little Rock Nine
26th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Andrew Carnegie
33. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Berlin Wall
Samuel Adams
Elvis Presley
The Rosenberg's
34. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
GI Bill
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Homestead Act
Sacco and Vanzetti
35. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Jim Crow laws
9th Amendment
Command Economy
GI Bill
36. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Fourteen Points
Malcolm X
26th Amendment
Cesar Chavez
37. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Federalism
Harry S. Truman
16th Amendment
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
38. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Laissez Faire
6th Amendment
WEB DuBois
39. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Marshall Plan (1948)
7th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Great Society
40. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Island hopping
Upton Sinclair
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Woodrow Wilson
41. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Teapot Dome Scandal
Andrew Carnegie
League of Nations
42. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Dawes Act
Shirley Chisholm
6th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
43. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Booker T. Washington
Baker v. Carr
5th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
44. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Cesar Chavez
Teapot Dome Scandal
Korean War
Cattle Drives
45. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Barbed wire
William 'Boss' Tweed
13th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
46. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Jim Crow laws
Abraham Lincoln
Baker v. Carr
Calvin Coolidge
47. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
FDIC
Plessy v. Ferguson
Tenements
3rd Amendment
48. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
Charles Lindbergh
Urbanization
Hoovervilles
49. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
4th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
Jim Crow laws
Marshall Plan (1948)
50. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
Barbed wire
Transcontinental railroad
Upton Sinclair