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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
John Scopes
Muckrakers
Spanish - American War
Island hopping
2. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Jim Crow laws
Rough Riders
Federalism
John J. Pershing
3. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
John Scopes
Joe McCarthy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
4. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Great Society
24th Amendment
George Wallace
5. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Urbanization
Social Darwinism
Political machines
24th Amendment
6. President 1980-88.
Imperialism
Command Economy
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
7. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Laissez Faire
Reconstruction
19thAmendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
8. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Jacob Riis
4th Amendment
John J. Pershing
The Little Rock Nine
9. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
7th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
Teapot Dome Scandal
10. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
Bay of Pigs
Lyndon B. Johnson
9th Amendment
11. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
15th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Ronald Reagan
12. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Checks and Balances
George Wallace
The Holocaust
Dust Bowl
13. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
24th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Federalist Papers
Pearl Harbor
14. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Fourteen Points
Immigration
Joe McCarthy
15. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
William H. Taft
14th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Shirley Chisholm
16. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Federalist Papers
Douglas MacArthur
George Wallace
17. New York political machine boss.
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18. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
The New Deal
The Baby Boom
Political machines
1st Amendment
19. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
9th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
20. Abolished slavery
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
13th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
GI Bill
21. President of the US during the Civil War.
Susan B. Anthony
Reynolds v. Sims
Battle of Wounded Knee
Abraham Lincoln
22. Separation by race.
League of Nations
Segregation
16th Amendment
Spanish - American War
23. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
2nd Amendment
Henry Ford
The War on Poverty
Emancipation Proclamation
24. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William Jennings Bryan
FDIC
Free Enterprise Economy
25. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Domino Theory
Abraham Lincoln
Escobedo v. Illinois
26. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
24th Amendment
Great Society
League of Nations
27. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Charles Lindbergh
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Battle of Wounded Knee
4th Amendment
28. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
13th Amendment
Great Society
John Scopes
U.S.S. Maine
29. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
5th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
26th Amendment
15th Amendment
30. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
Ronald Reagan
Manifest Destiny
Federalist Papers
31. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Imperialism
7th Amendment
FDIC
32. Movement of people into a country from another country.
World War II
Separation of Powers
Henry Ford
Immigration
33. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Industrialization
The War on Poverty
Bill of Rights
Thomas Paine
34. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Bill of Rights
3rd Amendment
Immigration
35. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Civil War
Reynolds v. Sims
The Baby Boom
Cuban Missile Crisis
36. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Medger Evers
Bobby Kennedy
Malcolm X
37. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Henry Ford
Bill of Rights
7th Amendment
Tenements
38. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
17th Amendment
16th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
39. The right to a fast and public trial.
court packing
6th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Marshall Plan (1948)
40. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Andrew Carnegie
The Harlem Renaissance
Omar Bradley
Escobedo v. Illinois
41. The prohibition of alcohol.
Command Economy
18th Amendment
Muckrakers
Miranda v. Arizona
42. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
WPA
Rough Riders
The Baby Boom
43. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
SEC
4th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Abraham Lincoln
44. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Bill of Rights
U-2 Incident
Columbian Exchange
Island hopping
45. Powers reserved to the states
Island hopping
William 'Boss' Tweed
10th Amendment
Industrialization
46. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Bobby Kennedy
Berlin Wall
Domino Theory
Dawes Act
47. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
King George III
Upton Sinclair
Berlin Wall
Reynolds v. Sims
48. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
John Scopes
World War II
The Little Rock Nine
court packing
49. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Bobby Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
26th Amendment
50. Invented the vaccine for polio
Thomas Paine
Immigration
The Baby Boom
Jonas Salk