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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
Escobedo v. Illinois
Martin Luther King Jr
Great Society
2. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Urbanization
Bill of Rights
NATO (1959)
3. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
William Jennings Bryan
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Holocaust
U-2 Incident
4. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18th Amendment
Fourteen Points
5. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
FDIC
Island hopping
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
6. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Double V Campaign
14th Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
7. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
Hoovervilles
Separation of Powers
The Harlem Renaissance
8. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
22nd Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Cesar Chavez
Hoovervilles
9. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Manifest Destiny
Fidel Castro
The Harlem Renaissance
Booker T. Washington
10. First form of government established by the 13 states.
13th Amendment
court packing
The Articles of Confederation
Cuban Missile Crisis
11. Sets a term limit for the President
Jim Crow laws
Henry Ford
22nd Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
12. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
Susan B. Anthony
9th Amendment
Sputnik
13. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Woodrow Wilson
The War on Poverty
Medger Evers
14. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tenements
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
9th Amendment
15. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Little Rock Nine
The Scopes Trial
Fourteen Points
Omar Bradley
16. Communist leader of Cuba.
Gloria Steinem
Fidel Castro
Charles Lindbergh
Susan B. Anthony
17. American painter from 1920's
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18. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Bill of Rights
Separation of Powers
6th Amendment
19. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
14th Amendment
26th Amendment
Containment
George Wallace
20. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
5th Amendment
Hoovervilles
NATO (1959)
Warren G. Harding
21. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
18th Amendment
Fidel Castro
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Nikita Kruschev
22. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Gloria Steinem
Federalism
The Harlem Renaissance
Yellow Journalism
23. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Berlin Wall
Miranda v. Arizona
Bay of Pigs
24. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Georgia O'Keefe
Battle of Midway
Watergate
Jacob Riis
25. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
The Jazz Age
The Great Migration
Spanish - American War
26. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U-2 Incident
Jacob Riis
Andrew Carnegie
27. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Laissez Faire
Urbanization
Social Darwinism
28. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
The New Deal
Rough Riders
Warren G. Harding
John Scopes
29. Rights reserved to the people.
Samuel Adams
court packing
Command Economy
9th Amendment
30. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Island hopping
Douglas MacArthur
Richard M. Nixon
31. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Island hopping
Trench Warfare
21st Amendment
32. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
William Jennings Bryan
Sacco and Vanzetti
The New Deal
33. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Ronald Reagan
Joe McCarthy
Georgia O'Keefe
34. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Viet Nam
Benjamin Franklin
The New Deal
Columbian Exchange
35. 1860 - 1865
The Rosenberg's
Battle of Wounded Knee
Civil War
Manifest Destiny
36. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Checks and Balances
26th Amendment
Normandy
Upton Sinclair
37. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
George Wallace
Transcontinental railroad
Marshall Plan (1948)
Samuel Adams
38. 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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39. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Prohibition
Korean War
15th Amendment
14th Amendment
40. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
John Scopes
The New Deal
41. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Brown v. Board of Education
22nd Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
42. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Upton Sinclair
Rough Riders
Teapot Dome Scandal
43. Progressive president who served during WW I.
14th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The War on Poverty
Woodrow Wilson
44. 1914 - 1918
Yellow Journalism
World War I
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
John Scopes
45. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
King George III
Segregation
Thomas Jefferson
46. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
John F. Kennedy
The Rosenberg's
Tenements
Clarence Darrow
47. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Social Darwinism
8th Amendment
U-2 Incident
Bay of Pigs
48. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Viet Nam
Island hopping
Nullification Crisis
Alfred Thayer Mahan
49. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Marshall Plan (1948)
Nikita Kruschev
17th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
50. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
16th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
Imperialism
SEC