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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Trial by jury.
Berlin Wall
7th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Elvis Presley
2. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
8th Amendment
John Scopes
14th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
3. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Woodrow Wilson
King George III
The Rosenberg's
Richard M. Nixon
4. 1914 - 1918
Domino Theory
Omar Bradley
World War I
court packing
5. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
The Articles of Confederation
Great Society
The War on Poverty
6. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Pearl Harbor
The War on Poverty
Viet Nam
Separation of Powers
7. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
The Little Rock Nine
King George III
Spanish - American War
The Holocaust
8. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
George Washington
The Scopes Trial
Rosa Parks
The War on Poverty
9. United Farm Workers activist
Battle of Wounded Knee
Command Economy
1st Amendment
Cesar Chavez
10. Abolished slavery
Berlin Wall
13th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Jim Crow laws
11. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Dust Bowl
Urbanization
U.S.S. Maine
12. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
John J. Pershing
Henry Ford
26th Amendment
World War II
13. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Trench Warfare
Malcolm X
Normandy
14. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Reconstruction
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Nikita Kruschev
15. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Flappers
Prohibition
Abraham Lincoln
Douglas MacArthur
16. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Federalism
Jim Crow laws
Clarence Darrow
Martin Luther King Jr
17. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Malcolm X
Barbed wire
Jacob Riis
Urbanization
18. 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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19. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Clarence Darrow
Great Society
Normandy
16th Amendment
20. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Transcontinental railroad
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Holocaust
The Great Migration
21. President 1980-88.
Emancipation Proclamation
17th Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
22. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
The New Deal
Populism
George Washington
John F. Kennedy
23. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
17th Amendment
8th Amendment
Imperialism
Thomas Paine
24. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
League of Nations
Rosa Parks
3rd Amendment
Muckrakers
25. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Transcontinental railroad
Thomas Jefferson
Populism
Teapot Dome Scandal
26. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Imperialism
Jonas Salk
The Jazz Age
27. Powers reserved to the states
Island hopping
Hoovervilles
Harry S. Truman
10th Amendment
28. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
The Harlem Renaissance
Harry S. Truman
Henry Ford
Separation of Powers
29. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
John F. Kennedy
Civil War
Checks and Balances
GI Bill
30. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Political machines
Reconstruction
League of Nations
Emancipation Proclamation
31. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
14th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
Calvin Coolidge
32. No quartering of troops during peace time
10th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
Prohibition
3rd Amendment
33. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
Domino Theory
Ronald Reagan
Samuel Adams
34. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Jacob Riis
Treaty of Versailles
3rd Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
35. 1860 - 1865
5th Amendment
26th Amendment
Civil War
Lyndon B. Johnson
36. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Miranda v. Arizona
court packing
Calvin Coolidge
Watergate
37. The right to a fast and public trial.
Sacco and Vanzetti
6th Amendment
8th Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
38. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Immigration
The Baby Boom
Containment
Medger Evers
39. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
King George III
Cuban Missile Crisis
Trench Warfare
court packing
40. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Reconstruction
Checks and Balances
Fidel Castro
Charles Lindbergh
41. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
King George III
Reynolds v. Sims
Bill of Rights
22nd Amendment
42. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Malcolm X
Bay of Pigs
Jonas Salk
43. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Susan B. Anthony
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Reynolds v. Sims
44. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
22nd Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Urbanization
45. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Jonas Salk
Clarence Darrow
Henry Ford
Teapot Dome Scandal
46. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Great Migration
Theodore Roosevelt
Gloria Steinem
47. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Free Enterprise Economy
Malcolm X
Prohibition
Dawes Act
48. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
WPA
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Great Society
Omar Bradley
49. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Woodrow Wilson
Susan B. Anthony
Shirley Chisholm
The Rosenberg's
50. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Georgia O'Keefe
Warren G. Harding
Upton Sinclair
2nd Amendment