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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Viet Nam
U.S.S. Maine
Sacco and Vanzetti
18th Amendment
2. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Emancipation Proclamation
Reynolds v. Sims
Woodrow Wilson
Miranda v. Arizona
3. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
16th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
WPA
Flappers
4. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Cesar Chavez
The Jazz Age
3rd Amendment
Jacob Riis
5. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Henry Ford
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Bracero Program
court packing
6. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
26th Amendment
18th Amendment
The War on Poverty
Upton Sinclair
7. United Farm Workers activist
Brown v. Board of Education
The Articles of Confederation
The Jazz Age
Cesar Chavez
8. Rights reserved to the people.
Dawes Act
The Harlem Renaissance
Lyndon B. Johnson
9th Amendment
9. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
The Jazz Age
Hoovervilles
Harry S. Truman
Charles Lindbergh
10. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
U.S.S. Maine
Sputnik
FDIC
11. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Double V Campaign
U.S.S. Maine
Viet Nam
Alfred Thayer Mahan
12. Early rock n ' roll performer
George Wallace
Elvis Presley
Douglas MacArthur
Watergate
13. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Columbian Exchange
U-2 Incident
Battle of Wounded Knee
Fidel Castro
14. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Calvin Coolidge
Separation of Powers
15. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson
8th Amendment
Civil War
Henry Ford
16. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Thomas Jefferson
Reconstruction
Berlin Wall
17. Abolished slavery
Teapot Dome Scandal
13th Amendment
Woodrow Wilson
Industrialization
18. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Ronald Reagan
Marshall Plan (1948)
WEB DuBois
Federalism
19. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Teapot Dome Scandal
Trench Warfare
The Great Migration
NATO (1959)
20. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Martin Luther King Jr
Trench Warfare
Nikita Kruschev
Nullification Crisis
21. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Teapot Dome Scandal
WPA
Separation of Powers
Jacob Riis
22. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Susan B. Anthony
Hoovervilles
15th Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
23. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Viet Nam
Manifest Destiny
Benjamin Franklin
Medger Evers
24. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Rosenberg's
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
25. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
26th Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
William Jennings Bryan
26. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Cattle Drives
John F. Kennedy
The Jazz Age
John Scopes
27. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Bay of Pigs
Reconstruction
5th Amendment
28. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Miranda v. Arizona
The Articles of Confederation
Federalism
Cuban Missile Crisis
29. No cruel or unusual punishment.
The Harlem Renaissance
Charles Lindbergh
Miranda v. Arizona
8th Amendment
30. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Korean War
Immigration
Battle of Wounded Knee
Malcolm X
31. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
4th Amendment
Battle of Midway
Bill of Rights
Booker T. Washington
32. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
26th Amendment
Berlin Wall
8th Amendment
33. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Baker v. Carr
Plessy v. Ferguson
Medger Evers
The Great Migration
34. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
5th Amendment
court packing
Great Society
Thomas Paine
35. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Samuel Adams
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Cattle Drives
Benjamin Franklin
36. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Free Enterprise Economy
Bobby Kennedy
Malcolm X
Baker v. Carr
37. Invented the vaccine for polio
Susan B. Anthony
The Scopes Trial
Jonas Salk
SEC
38. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Upton Sinclair
8th Amendment
Bracero Program
Pearl Harbor
39. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
The Little Rock Nine
Benjamin Franklin
Island hopping
Barbed wire
40. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Command Economy
Woodrow Wilson
Great Compromise
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
41. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
NATO (1959)
Urbanization
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Berlin Airlift
42. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Treaty of Versailles
Martin Luther King Jr
The Articles of Confederation
43. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
8th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Normandy
44. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Transcontinental railroad
10th Amendment
Sacco and Vanzetti
Barbed wire
45. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Jim Crow laws
The Baby Boom
Transcontinental railroad
John F. Kennedy
46. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
9th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Berlin Wall
47. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Double V Campaign
Plessy v. Ferguson
Jacob Riis
Urbanization
48. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
SEC
22nd Amendment
Tenements
Urbanization
49. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Segregation
Trench Warfare
League of Nations
Gideon v. Wainwright
50. Powers reserved to the states
Emancipation Proclamation
Harry S. Truman
Treaty of Versailles
10th Amendment