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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Emancipation Proclamation
Sputnik
7th Amendment
George Washington
2. 1860 - 1865
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil War
Harry S. Truman
Fourteen Points
3. American painter from 1920's
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4. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
3rd Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
Shirley Chisholm
John F. Kennedy
5. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Social Darwinism
Transcontinental railroad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
U.S.S. Maine
6. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
Fidel Castro
Reynolds v. Sims
WEB DuBois
The Scopes Trial
7. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
The Scopes Trial
Lyndon B. Johnson
Manifest Destiny
NATO (1959)
8. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
NATO (1959)
The War on Poverty
WPA
Muckrakers
9. Separation by race.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Calvin Coolidge
2nd Amendment
Segregation
10. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
George Wallace
John Scopes
King George III
Transcontinental railroad
11. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Thomas Paine
Tenements
Free Enterprise Economy
12. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Industrialization
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Normandy
14th Amendment
13. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
5th Amendment
Homestead Act
Martin Luther King Jr
14. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Brown v. Board of Education
Populism
Bay of Pigs
Benjamin Franklin
15. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Trench Warfare
Jim Crow laws
Marshall Plan (1948)
Calvin Coolidge
16. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Containment
Industrialization
Great Compromise
The Articles of Confederation
17. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
Charles Lindbergh
The War on Poverty
Rough Riders
18. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
John Scopes
Booker T. Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Island hopping
19. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Urbanization
Abraham Lincoln
Marshall Plan (1948)
Neil Armstrong
20. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
2nd Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Jim Crow laws
Gideon v. Wainwright
21. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Bill of Rights
Rough Riders
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
22. Sets a term limit for the President
Normandy
22nd Amendment
WPA
John Scopes
23. President of the US during the Civil War.
League of Nations
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Great Migration
Abraham Lincoln
24. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Segregation
Spanish - American War
Thomas Paine
25. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Pearl Harbor
Emancipation Proclamation
Susan B. Anthony
Laissez Faire
26. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Domino Theory
13th Amendment
Dawes Act
John J. Pershing
27. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Manifest Destiny
George Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Tenements
28. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Miranda v. Arizona
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
NATO (1959)
Douglas MacArthur
29. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Woodrow Wilson
Industrialization
Free Enterprise Economy
Gideon v. Wainwright
30. The prohibition of alcohol.
Immigration
Omar Bradley
18th Amendment
court packing
31. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Sputnik
Jacob Riis
Georgia O'Keefe
32. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Hoovervilles
Gloria Steinem
Political machines
Trench Warfare
33. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Federalism
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
1st Amendment
Nullification Crisis
34. Powers reserved to the states
Fidel Castro
Pearl Harbor
10th Amendment
5th Amendment
35. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Baker v. Carr
Flappers
Red Scare
Marshall Plan (1948)
36. No quartering of troops during peace time
Tenements
World War I
17th Amendment
3rd Amendment
37. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
John J. Pershing
Bill of Rights
Shirley Chisholm
38. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Baker v. Carr
Nikita Kruschev
Hoovervilles
13th Amendment
39. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
GI Bill
Fidel Castro
Laissez Faire
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
40. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Rough Riders
Teapot Dome Scandal
Checks and Balances
Tenements
41. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
William Jennings Bryan
Homestead Act
The Little Rock Nine
Korean War
42. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Prohibition
The New Deal
Berlin Airlift
43. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Trench Warfare
Jonas Salk
Medger Evers
The Scopes Trial
44. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
10th Amendment
Red Scare
World War II
Berlin Airlift
45. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Clarence Darrow
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
8th Amendment
46. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Laissez Faire
Trench Warfare
Battle of Midway
47. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
World War II
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt
The Baby Boom
48. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Henry Ford
court packing
The New Deal
Booker T. Washington
49. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
9th Amendment
WPA
Command Economy
Richard M. Nixon
50. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
Escobedo v. Illinois
William Jennings Bryan
Fourteen Points