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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Normandy
Jacob Riis
Transcontinental railroad
21st Amendment
2. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Flappers
Great Society
Great Compromise
Jim Crow laws
3. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Free Enterprise Economy
26th Amendment
Imperialism
Malcolm X
4. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
William Jennings Bryan
George Wallace
Free Enterprise Economy
Fidel Castro
5. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
18th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
6. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
FDIC
Industrialization
Fourteen Points
The Great Migration
7. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Douglas MacArthur
The Rosenberg's
Fourteen Points
Abraham Lincoln
8. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Brown v. Board of Education
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
League of Nations
Calvin Coolidge
9. President during Roaring 20's
Ronald Reagan
Separation of Powers
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Calvin Coolidge
10. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Shirley Chisholm
Great Society
13th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
11. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Lyndon B. Johnson
7th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
WPA
12. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
John J. Pershing
Containment
15th Amendment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
SEC
Andrew Carnegie
1st Amendment
Omar Bradley
14. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Woodrow Wilson
Elvis Presley
Columbian Exchange
The Great Migration
15. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Spanish - American War
15th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
The Harlem Renaissance
16. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Island hopping
Free Enterprise Economy
The Baby Boom
Manifest Destiny
17. Alternate term for 1920's.
Nullification Crisis
King George III
Battle of Midway
The Jazz Age
18. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
The Rosenberg's
Berlin Airlift
Neil Armstrong
The Articles of Confederation
19. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Battle of Midway
U.S.S. Maine
Brown v. Board of Education
18th Amendment
20. President 1963-68
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Lyndon B. Johnson
Booker T. Washington
Omar Bradley
21. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Theodore Roosevelt
Island hopping
1st Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
22. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
26th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Command Economy
Henry Ford
23. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Jim Crow laws
Trench Warfare
Treaty of Versailles
Rough Riders
24. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Berlin Wall
Barbed wire
Separation of Powers
Andrew Carnegie
25. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Prohibition
Andrew Carnegie
26. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Yellow Journalism
Trench Warfare
Richard M. Nixon
Thomas Paine
27. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
The Great Migration
5th Amendment
Omar Bradley
Malcolm X
28. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Flappers
Nikita Kruschev
Spanish - American War
Charles Lindbergh
29. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Omar Bradley
The War on Poverty
The Jazz Age
1st Amendment
30. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
17th Amendment
George Washington
Homestead Act
Double V Campaign
31. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Brown v. Board of Education
Battle of Midway
Bill of Rights
Shirley Chisholm
32. Communist leader of Cuba.
24th Amendment
Fidel Castro
Sputnik
1st Amendment
33. Abolished the poll tax.
24th Amendment
9th Amendment
22nd Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
34. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
court packing
18th Amendment
Social Darwinism
14th Amendment
35. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
William Jennings Bryan
Hoovervilles
Woodrow Wilson
36. 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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37. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
5th Amendment
League of Nations
9th Amendment
George Wallace
38. Founding father - politician - scientist
Gideon v. Wainwright
Benjamin Franklin
John J. Pershing
Tenements
39. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
13th Amendment
World War I
Containment
40. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Immigration
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Yellow Journalism
Shirley Chisholm
41. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Prohibition
Clarence Darrow
The Articles of Confederation
Rosa Parks
42. Powers reserved to the states
Samuel Adams
10th Amendment
Rough Riders
Checks and Balances
43. Trial by jury.
U-2 Incident
5th Amendment
World War I
7th Amendment
44. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Federalist Papers
The Articles of Confederation
The Scopes Trial
Berlin Airlift
45. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Korean War
1st Amendment
Double V Campaign
46. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
14th Amendment
47. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
Bay of Pigs
Ronald Reagan
World War I
48. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Dust Bowl
Ronald Reagan
Checks and Balances
The New Deal
49. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
22nd Amendment
Containment
Rough Riders
Emancipation Proclamation
50. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
Baker v. Carr
Battle of Wounded Knee
19thAmendment