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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Bay of Pigs
court packing
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Little Rock Nine
2. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Red Scare
Tenements
22nd Amendment
3. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Battle of Midway
Nikita Kruschev
Neil Armstrong
4. 1860 - 1865
17th Amendment
Civil War
Battle of Wounded Knee
Georgia O'Keefe
5. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
13th Amendment
The Holocaust
Yellow Journalism
Harry S. Truman
6. No cruel or unusual punishment.
The Rosenberg's
FDIC
Immigration
8th Amendment
7. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Douglas MacArthur
George Washington
U-2 Incident
Segregation
8. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Trench Warfare
Samuel Adams
Reconstruction
Sputnik
9. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Double V Campaign
8th Amendment
Korean War
Malcolm X
10. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Warren G. Harding
Prohibition
Baker v. Carr
21st Amendment
11. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Trench Warfare
Urbanization
Flappers
12. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Watergate
Baker v. Carr
Martin Luther King Jr
13. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Separation of Powers
Free Enterprise Economy
Double V Campaign
14. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
Susan B. Anthony
Baker v. Carr
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
15. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Manifest Destiny
3rd Amendment
Spanish - American War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Rough Riders
Red Scare
Jim Crow laws
Rosa Parks
17. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Pearl Harbor
Dawes Act
William Jennings Bryan
Plessy v. Ferguson
18. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Jim Crow laws
16th Amendment
Bracero Program
24th Amendment
19. Communist leader of Cuba.
Tenements
Fidel Castro
Benjamin Franklin
The Jazz Age
20. 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
Teapot Dome Scandal
Muckrakers
Cuban Missile Crisis
21. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Laissez Faire
Reconstruction
The War on Poverty
Hoovervilles
22. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
1st Amendment
Reconstruction
Yellow Journalism
Populism
23. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Separation of Powers
6th Amendment
Barbed wire
Prohibition
24. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
The Harlem Renaissance
Rosa Parks
Theodore Roosevelt
Transcontinental railroad
25. American painter from 1920's
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26. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
The Baby Boom
Gloria Steinem
WPA
Prohibition
27. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Viet Nam
13th Amendment
Great Society
Federalist Papers
28. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Andrew Carnegie
Bill of Rights
George Washington
Battle of Midway
29. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
15th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
King George III
30. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
4th Amendment
2nd Amendment
31. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
19thAmendment
The Holocaust
Battle of Wounded Knee
32. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Jonas Salk
King George III
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. No quartering of troops during peace time
Douglas MacArthur
Berlin Wall
3rd Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
34. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Nikita Kruschev
Barbed wire
Battle of Midway
The Articles of Confederation
35. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
FDIC
Charles Lindbergh
Escobedo v. Illinois
36. President of the US during the Civil War.
Laissez Faire
Abraham Lincoln
Checks and Balances
Great Compromise
37. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reconstruction
18th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Reynolds v. Sims
38. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Great Society
Domino Theory
Cattle Drives
Great Compromise
39. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Dust Bowl
The War on Poverty
court packing
Great Society
40. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cuban Missile Crisis
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
41. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
21st Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
Marshall Plan (1948)
Bracero Program
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
43. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
John Scopes
Laissez Faire
Charles Lindbergh
Susan B. Anthony
44. 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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45. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
U-2 Incident
League of Nations
Separation of Powers
Jim Crow laws
46. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
Treaty of Versailles
3rd Amendment
GI Bill
47. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Reynolds v. Sims
3rd Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
Manifest Destiny
48. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Pearl Harbor
Gideon v. Wainwright
U.S.S. Maine
Berlin Wall
49. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
15th Amendment
Dawes Act
Manifest Destiny
Douglas MacArthur
50. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Formed to defend Europe against Soviet Union.
Henry Ford
Joe McCarthy
Prohibition
NATO (1959)