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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Yellow Journalism
Double V Campaign
The New Deal
Miranda v. Arizona
2. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Lyndon B. Johnson
Segregation
Dust Bowl
3. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
FDIC
Georgia O'Keefe
U-2 Incident
Federalist Papers
4. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
9th Amendment
19thAmendment
Manifest Destiny
26th Amendment
5. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
16th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
Rosa Parks
Jacob Riis
6. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
SEC
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Kruschev
7th Amendment
7. President 1980-88.
League of Nations
Battle of Midway
Ronald Reagan
Reconstruction
8. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Brown v. Board of Education
Political machines
George Washington
14th Amendment
9. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
The Jazz Age
Separation of Powers
Escobedo v. Illinois
10. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
13th Amendment
League of Nations
Separation of Powers
Nullification Crisis
11. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Cesar Chavez
Spanish - American War
Barbed wire
Brown v. Board of Education
12. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
14th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Political machines
13. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
NATO (1959)
The Great Migration
Dust Bowl
Neil Armstrong
14. The right to a fast and public trial.
Cuban Missile Crisis
6th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
Federalism
15. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Abraham Lincoln
U.S.S. Maine
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Rough Riders
16. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Harry S. Truman
Medger Evers
Normandy
Treaty of Versailles
17. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Nikita Kruschev
Domino Theory
18. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
GI Bill
21st Amendment
George Wallace
19. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Containment
Martin Luther King Jr
Command Economy
Cattle Drives
20. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Manifest Destiny
William H. Taft
Georgia O'Keefe
21st Amendment
21. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Woodrow Wilson
WEB DuBois
Dawes Act
Fourteen Points
22. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Homestead Act
Bobby Kennedy
The Harlem Renaissance
Transcontinental railroad
23. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
Korean War
Yellow Journalism
WEB DuBois
24. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Thomas Jefferson
Neil Armstrong
SEC
Reconstruction
25. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Barbed wire
Great Society
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Korean War
26. The right to vote for women.
Populism
Nullification Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
19thAmendment
27. New York political machine boss.
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28. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Richard M. Nixon
Civil War
SEC
Rosa Parks
29. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
19thAmendment
Tenements
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dawes Act
30. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
14th Amendment
George Wallace
Populism
Cesar Chavez
31. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The New Deal
The Articles of Confederation
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
32. No unlawful search and seizure.
Island hopping
4th Amendment
John J. Pershing
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
33. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Domino Theory
Trench Warfare
Flappers
34. 1939 - 1945
15th Amendment
Dawes Act
World War II
Sacco and Vanzetti
35. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Woodrow Wilson
Reconstruction
The Articles of Confederation
Bracero Program
36. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Sputnik
Warren G. Harding
The Baby Boom
Dawes Act
37. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Sputnik
League of Nations
Flappers
Gloria Steinem
38. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
6th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Calvin Coolidge
39. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
World War II
George Wallace
The Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson
40. American painter from 1920's
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41. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Red Scare
WEB DuBois
Jonas Salk
Sputnik
42. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Reconstruction
Cattle Drives
Bracero Program
2nd Amendment
43. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Calvin Coolidge
17th Amendment
Elvis Presley
George Washington
44. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
13th Amendment
Gloria Steinem
Fidel Castro
45. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Bracero Program
Lyndon B. Johnson
John Scopes
46. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Viet Nam
Spanish - American War
Woodrow Wilson
Plessy v. Ferguson
47. The prohibition of alcohol.
Lyndon B. Johnson
U-2 Incident
18th Amendment
Double V Campaign
48. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
John F. Kennedy
The New Deal
10th Amendment
Spanish - American War
49. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Muckrakers
WEB DuBois
George Washington
The Great Migration
50. Competition between European countries to create empires.
19thAmendment
Elvis Presley
Trench Warfare
Imperialism