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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
The Little Rock Nine
Reynolds v. Sims
Pearl Harbor
2. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Calvin Coolidge
The War on Poverty
William 'Boss' Tweed
3. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
WEB DuBois
Yellow Journalism
Medger Evers
Political machines
4. First astronaut to land on the moon.
The Jazz Age
Neil Armstrong
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Transcontinental railroad
5. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Prohibition
Reynolds v. Sims
3rd Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
6. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Charles Lindbergh
Clarence Darrow
Emancipation Proclamation
7. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Laissez Faire
Neil Armstrong
Dust Bowl
8. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Cesar Chavez
Federalism
Charles Lindbergh
Separation of Powers
9. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Battle of Wounded Knee
Miranda v. Arizona
George Washington
Containment
10. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
Columbian Exchange
Dust Bowl
Warren G. Harding
11. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Domino Theory
12. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
16th Amendment
Command Economy
Populism
Plessy v. Ferguson
13. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Containment
Neil Armstrong
William H. Taft
League of Nations
14. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
4th Amendment
Korean War
Treaty of Versailles
The Scopes Trial
15. American painter from 1920's
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16. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Trench Warfare
Joe McCarthy
court packing
17. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Nikita Kruschev
Bracero Program
Rough Riders
4th Amendment
18. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Harry S. Truman
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Susan B. Anthony
16th Amendment
19. No unlawful search and seizure.
Andrew Carnegie
Great Society
4th Amendment
Korean War
20. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Flappers
The New Deal
Checks and Balances
21. 1914 - 1918
Battle of Midway
7th Amendment
World War I
Laissez Faire
22. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
22nd Amendment
14th Amendment
Trench Warfare
23. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Bracero Program
Sputnik
Barbed wire
Dawes Act
24. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Laissez Faire
Battle of Midway
Columbian Exchange
24th Amendment
25. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Reconstruction
Checks and Balances
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Emancipation Proclamation
26. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Transcontinental railroad
13th Amendment
Tenements
27. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Spanish - American War
Medger Evers
Teapot Dome Scandal
Island hopping
28. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
FDIC
Viet Nam
Populism
George Washington
29. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
15th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
William H. Taft
Fourteen Points
30. Communist leader of Cuba.
2nd Amendment
Fidel Castro
Domino Theory
Great Society
31. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
26th Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
Marshall Plan (1948)
32. The direct election of US Senators.
4th Amendment
WEB DuBois
17th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
33. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
22nd Amendment
George Washington
Dawes Act
14th Amendment
34. 1939 - 1945
World War II
Susan B. Anthony
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Red Scare
35. Founding father - politician - scientist
Domino Theory
Benjamin Franklin
Baker v. Carr
Emancipation Proclamation
36. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Hoovervilles
Clarence Darrow
Harry S. Truman
Joe McCarthy
37. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Jacob Riis
Cuban Missile Crisis
Separation of Powers
Sputnik
38. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Imperialism
15th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
Red Scare
39. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Thomas Paine
Gloria Steinem
24th Amendment
40. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
John F. Kennedy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Harlem Renaissance
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Social Darwinism
Battle of Wounded Knee
NATO (1959)
Richard M. Nixon
42. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
17th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
U.S.S. Maine
43. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Hoovervilles
Populism
GI Bill
44. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Columbian Exchange
Malcolm X
Susan B. Anthony
Samuel Adams
45. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Columbian Exchange
Miranda v. Arizona
Nullification Crisis
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
46. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
Free Enterprise Economy
Elvis Presley
Spanish - American War
47. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
7th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
The Jazz Age
48. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Jacob Riis
The Harlem Renaissance
49. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
NATO (1959)
Woodrow Wilson
Hoovervilles
50. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Harry S. Truman
WPA
The Holocaust
8th Amendment