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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Teapot Dome Scandal
FDIC
19thAmendment
Korean War
2. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Spanish - American War
Reynolds v. Sims
SEC
Island hopping
3. Founding father - politician - scientist
26th Amendment
2nd Amendment
Battle of Midway
Benjamin Franklin
4. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
John F. Kennedy
Normandy
Homestead Act
Jim Crow laws
5. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Tenements
Segregation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yellow Journalism
6. Abolished the poll tax.
9th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
24th Amendment
7. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Dawes Act
John Scopes
10th Amendment
8. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Great Migration
9th Amendment
17th Amendment
9. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Theodore Roosevelt
Jonas Salk
Teapot Dome Scandal
10. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
World War I
GI Bill
11. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
1st Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Populism
Laissez Faire
12. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Manifest Destiny
Flappers
Medger Evers
Bill of Rights
13. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
League of Nations
18th Amendment
Hoovervilles
Theodore Roosevelt
14. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
John Scopes
Bill of Rights
The Harlem Renaissance
Tenements
15. Alternate term for 1920's.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Jazz Age
The Baby Boom
Imperialism
16. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Sacco and Vanzetti
18th Amendment
Sputnik
Andrew Carnegie
17. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Susan B. Anthony
Civil War
Charles Lindbergh
18. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
League of Nations
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Manifest Destiny
Baker v. Carr
19. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
The Great Migration
Teapot Dome Scandal
U.S.S. Maine
Baker v. Carr
20. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Ronald Reagan
William Jennings Bryan
Cesar Chavez
Command Economy
21. The prohibition of alcohol.
Benjamin Franklin
U-2 Incident
18th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
22. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Cesar Chavez
Ronald Reagan
Hoovervilles
Immigration
23. 1860 - 1865
Civil War
Separation of Powers
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
George Washington
24. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Free Enterprise Economy
Muckrakers
Omar Bradley
Bracero Program
25. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Red Scare
The War on Poverty
Transcontinental railroad
Miranda v. Arizona
26. Powers reserved to the states
Fidel Castro
Martin Luther King Jr
10th Amendment
World War I
27. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Berlin Wall
Henry Ford
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Articles of Confederation
28. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jacob Riis
World War II
Bay of Pigs
29. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Barbed wire
Flappers
Thomas Jefferson
Plessy v. Ferguson
30. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Joe McCarthy
William H. Taft
The Articles of Confederation
Dust Bowl
31. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Imperialism
Andrew Carnegie
Jacob Riis
6th Amendment
32. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Immigration
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Spanish - American War
Rough Riders
33. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Normandy
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Rosenberg's
Homestead Act
34. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Federalist Papers
Shirley Chisholm
Pearl Harbor
14th Amendment
35. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Double V Campaign
Bill of Rights
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
36. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Abraham Lincoln
Neil Armstrong
Jim Crow laws
37. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
The Little Rock Nine
Populism
Treaty of Versailles
38. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
King George III
Dawes Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
Warren G. Harding
39. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Spanish - American War
Columbian Exchange
14th Amendment
John Scopes
40. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Fourteen Points
SEC
Island hopping
Elvis Presley
41. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Bill of Rights
9th Amendment
Douglas MacArthur
42. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Domino Theory
John Scopes
NATO (1959)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
43. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Dust Bowl
Calvin Coolidge
Bobby Kennedy
5th Amendment
44. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Industrialization
Clarence Darrow
WPA
Sputnik
45. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Domino Theory
Manifest Destiny
Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil War
46. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
George Washington
Susan B. Anthony
Populism
47. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Great Society
Bracero Program
Douglas MacArthur
Booker T. Washington
48. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jonas Salk
Separation of Powers
Booker T. Washington
49. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
William H. Taft
Benjamin Franklin
League of Nations
Containment
50. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bobby Kennedy
The Baby Boom
Transcontinental railroad