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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Escobedo v. Illinois
16th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Clarence Darrow
2. President 1980-88.
Sputnik
4th Amendment
Ronald Reagan
Treaty of Versailles
3. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Clarence Darrow
Benjamin Franklin
Teapot Dome Scandal
4. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Hoovervilles
Theodore Roosevelt
2nd Amendment
The Holocaust
5. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Industrialization
Joe McCarthy
6. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
NATO (1959)
Joe McCarthy
Nikita Kruschev
The Harlem Renaissance
7. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Berlin Wall
Industrialization
World War I
8. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
WPA
17th Amendment
21st Amendment
9. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Hoovervilles
Escobedo v. Illinois
Separation of Powers
10. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Double V Campaign
Checks and Balances
George Washington
Barbed wire
11. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
World War I
Harry S. Truman
The Scopes Trial
Barbed wire
12. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
9th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
Bobby Kennedy
Urbanization
13. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Theodore Roosevelt
21st Amendment
Barbed wire
14. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
17th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Social Darwinism
Checks and Balances
15. The right to vote for women.
Jim Crow laws
The Articles of Confederation
Miranda v. Arizona
19thAmendment
16. The right to a fast and public trial.
Bobby Kennedy
Warren G. Harding
Charles Lindbergh
6th Amendment
17. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Reynolds v. Sims
14th Amendment
Watergate
Neil Armstrong
18. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Domino Theory
14th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
19. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Gideon v. Wainwright
Barbed wire
Domino Theory
20. American painter from 1920's
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21. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WPA
WEB DuBois
Korean War
16th Amendment
22. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
21st Amendment
18th Amendment
Cattle Drives
Georgia O'Keefe
23. Abolished the poll tax.
Thomas Jefferson
24th Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
Berlin Wall
24. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
The Holocaust
Miranda v. Arizona
Urbanization
25. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Tenements
John J. Pershing
Korean War
King George III
26. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Fourteen Points
Brown v. Board of Education
Reconstruction
Cuban Missile Crisis
27. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
SEC
Plessy v. Ferguson
Tenements
Truman Doctrine (1947)
28. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Tenements
Medger Evers
Yellow Journalism
29. 1939 - 1945
Abraham Lincoln
Nullification Crisis
World War II
George Washington
30. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Prohibition
George Washington
Harry S. Truman
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
31. 1914 - 1918
Woodrow Wilson
World War I
Miranda v. Arizona
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
32. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Jonas Salk
Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Jefferson
NATO (1959)
33. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Benjamin Franklin
Brown v. Board of Education
Treaty of Versailles
Jacob Riis
34. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
Neil Armstrong
George Wallace
Island hopping
35. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Cesar Chavez
Trench Warfare
8th Amendment
The Little Rock Nine
36. Separation by race.
3rd Amendment
10th Amendment
Rosa Parks
Segregation
37. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Booker T. Washington
The Scopes Trial
Spanish - American War
Pearl Harbor
38. President 1961-63
Command Economy
George Washington
John F. Kennedy
NATO (1959)
39. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Dawes Act
Omar Bradley
Separation of Powers
Great Compromise
40. Alternate term for 1920's.
Viet Nam
The Jazz Age
U-2 Incident
Theodore Roosevelt
41. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
21st Amendment
Viet Nam
Fourteen Points
Dust Bowl
42. The direct election of US Senators.
Red Scare
17th Amendment
Civil War
Plessy v. Ferguson
43. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
The Scopes Trial
The Articles of Confederation
Plessy v. Ferguson
GI Bill
44. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
Henry Ford
Muckrakers
Truman Doctrine (1947)
45. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Joe McCarthy
The War on Poverty
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Prohibition
46. Rights reserved to the people.
Columbian Exchange
9th Amendment
The Jazz Age
Miranda v. Arizona
47. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Island hopping
Dawes Act
Separation of Powers
Rough Riders
48. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Battle of Midway
Elvis Presley
13th Amendment
GI Bill
49. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
Prohibition
Korean War
50. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Warren G. Harding
Berlin Airlift