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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Sputnik
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Baker v. Carr
2. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Reconstruction
Marshall Plan (1948)
Dust Bowl
Island hopping
3. American painter from 1920's
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4. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
The Little Rock Nine
Woodrow Wilson
Sacco and Vanzetti
5. No cruel or unusual punishment.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
2nd Amendment
Rough Riders
8th Amendment
6. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Reynolds v. Sims
Georgia O'Keefe
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Korean War
7. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Andrew Carnegie
Sacco and Vanzetti
Nikita Kruschev
Homestead Act
8. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dust Bowl
The Scopes Trial
John F. Kennedy
9. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Nikita Kruschev
Federalist Papers
Martin Luther King Jr
Free Enterprise Economy
10. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Omar Bradley
Baker v. Carr
Escobedo v. Illinois
Populism
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
The Little Rock Nine
Shirley Chisholm
Double V Campaign
12. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Calvin Coolidge
Muckrakers
3rd Amendment
13. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
John Scopes
Political machines
WEB DuBois
14. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Richard M. Nixon
19thAmendment
Andrew Carnegie
Nikita Kruschev
15. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
NATO (1959)
George Wallace
Great Compromise
GI Bill
16. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
Cesar Chavez
Henry Ford
Bay of Pigs
17. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
13th Amendment
Dawes Act
8th Amendment
Spanish - American War
18. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
League of Nations
Cuban Missile Crisis
19. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Normandy
Booker T. Washington
19thAmendment
Segregation
20. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Jacob Riis
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Watergate
Warren G. Harding
21. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Booker T. Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Transcontinental railroad
U.S.S. Maine
22. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
6th Amendment
Battle of Midway
William Jennings Bryan
Flappers
23. The right to a fast and public trial.
Clarence Darrow
6th Amendment
Viet Nam
Escobedo v. Illinois
24. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Reconstruction
The War on Poverty
Dust Bowl
Gideon v. Wainwright
25. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Abraham Lincoln
Imperialism
Hoovervilles
Medger Evers
26. 1914 - 1918
Watergate
World War I
Jonas Salk
U-2 Incident
27. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Yellow Journalism
Brown v. Board of Education
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
28. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
The Holocaust
Clarence Darrow
Industrialization
Calvin Coolidge
29. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Imperialism
Gloria Steinem
The Rosenberg's
3rd Amendment
30. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
GI Bill
Manifest Destiny
Laissez Faire
The War on Poverty
31. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
24th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Emancipation Proclamation
32. Separation by race.
The New Deal
Ronald Reagan
Segregation
Douglas MacArthur
33. President 1980-88.
Cattle Drives
Prohibition
Ronald Reagan
Civil War
34. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
King George III
Nikita Kruschev
Rosa Parks
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35. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Pearl Harbor
Calvin Coolidge
Clarence Darrow
Imperialism
36. Powers reserved to the states
Treaty of Versailles
10th Amendment
The War on Poverty
Brown v. Board of Education
37. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Columbian Exchange
Omar Bradley
The Great Migration
World War II
38. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
17th Amendment
League of Nations
Medger Evers
The Harlem Renaissance
39. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Richard M. Nixon
Thomas Jefferson
Flappers
John J. Pershing
40. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Bill of Rights
Joe McCarthy
Rosa Parks
Thomas Paine
41. New York political machine boss.
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42. No quartering of troops during peace time
18th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
3rd Amendment
The War on Poverty
43. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Cuban Missile Crisis
Double V Campaign
Columbian Exchange
44. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
5th Amendment
Charles Lindbergh
U-2 Incident
Malcolm X
45. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Woodrow Wilson
Neil Armstrong
Great Society
Dawes Act
46. Right to bear arms
5th Amendment
2nd Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
Flappers
47. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Muckrakers
Columbian Exchange
Douglas MacArthur
Flappers
48. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Malcolm X
15th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Muckrakers
49. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Manifest Destiny
Shirley Chisholm
Fourteen Points
NATO (1959)
50. Invented the vaccine for polio
U-2 Incident
Nullification Crisis
Jonas Salk
Dwight D. Eisenhower