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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Populism
Nullification Crisis
Tenements
2. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Industrialization
17th Amendment
Cattle Drives
Social Darwinism
3. The right to a fast and public trial.
William 'Boss' Tweed
6th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
9th Amendment
4. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Miranda v. Arizona
Gloria Steinem
Theodore Roosevelt
The Jazz Age
5. 1939 - 1945
The Great Migration
The Jazz Age
Charles Lindbergh
World War II
6. Alternate term for 1920's.
Marshall Plan (1948)
The Jazz Age
Trench Warfare
15th Amendment
7. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Fidel Castro
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Federalist Papers
Richard M. Nixon
8. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Andrew Carnegie
Checks and Balances
Great Society
9. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Dawes Act
Berlin Wall
Charles Lindbergh
10. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
22nd Amendment
Korean War
Red Scare
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Brown v. Board of Education
NATO (1959)
Prohibition
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
12. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
Hoovervilles
Benjamin Franklin
16th Amendment
13. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
24th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
George Washington
14. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Andrew Carnegie
NATO (1959)
6th Amendment
15. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Medger Evers
Cattle Drives
Viet Nam
Imperialism
16. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
Georgia O'Keefe
Henry Ford
Laissez Faire
17. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Malcolm X
Red Scare
Dawes Act
The New Deal
18. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Scopes Trial
Upton Sinclair
Great Compromise
19. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Jim Crow laws
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Cattle Drives
The Scopes Trial
20. No cruel or unusual punishment.
17th Amendment
Medger Evers
8th Amendment
Homestead Act
21. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
21st Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Dust Bowl
22. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Normandy
Federalist Papers
Dust Bowl
Benjamin Franklin
23. New York political machine boss.
24. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Jonas Salk
Andrew Carnegie
Lyndon B. Johnson
25. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Federalist Papers
Populism
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
26. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Carnegie
Neil Armstrong
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
27. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
WPA
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Clarence Darrow
Normandy
28. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Yellow Journalism
The Harlem Renaissance
King George III
Bay of Pigs
29. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Samuel Adams
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Douglas MacArthur
Dust Bowl
30. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Columbian Exchange
Henry Ford
Martin Luther King Jr
Samuel Adams
31. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Bill of Rights
William 'Boss' Tweed
14th Amendment
32. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Jim Crow laws
13th Amendment
33. Powers reserved to the states
10th Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
FDIC
Truman Doctrine (1947)
34. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
John Scopes
World War II
Watergate
35. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Malcolm X
Samuel Adams
Neil Armstrong
36. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Viet Nam
Great Compromise
Warren G. Harding
Urbanization
37. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
9th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Political machines
38. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
10th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
WPA
World War II
39. Trial by jury.
Homestead Act
Command Economy
World War II
7th Amendment
40. American couple accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb. They were found guilty and sentenced to death.
41. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Omar Bradley
Thomas Jefferson
Sacco and Vanzetti
Battle of Midway
42. President 1963-68
8th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Plessy v. Ferguson
19thAmendment
43. No quartering of troops during peace time
Woodrow Wilson
Marshall Plan (1948)
3rd Amendment
Fidel Castro
44. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Charles Lindbergh
Bill of Rights
Command Economy
Henry Ford
45. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
The Holocaust
Upton Sinclair
3rd Amendment
George Washington
46. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
Upton Sinclair
WEB DuBois
47. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Jonas Salk
FDIC
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
48. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Emancipation Proclamation
8th Amendment
5th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
49. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
19thAmendment
Benjamin Franklin
50. President 1961-63
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
13th Amendment