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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Thomas Paine
Yellow Journalism
Bill of Rights
Andrew Carnegie
2. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Joe McCarthy
Truman Doctrine (1947)
1st Amendment
Escobedo v. Illinois
3. 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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4. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
The Great Migration
Teapot Dome Scandal
Medger Evers
Emancipation Proclamation
5. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Dust Bowl
Thomas Jefferson
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
6. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Ronald Reagan
Political machines
World War I
Viet Nam
7. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
WPA
Homestead Act
World War II
8. Alternate term for 1920's.
Imperialism
court packing
Great Society
The Jazz Age
9. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
Sputnik
Bracero Program
The War on Poverty
10. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Red Scare
Immigration
GI Bill
11. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Jacob Riis
World War I
Baker v. Carr
15th Amendment
12. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Bobby Kennedy
Neil Armstrong
Populism
Calvin Coolidge
13. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
WPA
Henry Ford
26th Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
14. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Bobby Kennedy
Social Darwinism
Martin Luther King Jr
The Harlem Renaissance
15. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Omar Bradley
The Great Migration
21st Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
16. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Upton Sinclair
1st Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
17. 1914 - 1918
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
World War I
19thAmendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
18. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
George Wallace
Douglas MacArthur
SEC
Bracero Program
19. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Domino Theory
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
League of Nations
Escobedo v. Illinois
20. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
WPA
Henry Ford
Battle of Wounded Knee
Charles Lindbergh
21. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Dawes Act
World War II
17th Amendment
22. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Gloria Steinem
Plessy v. Ferguson
Medger Evers
WPA
23. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
13th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan
King George III
George Wallace
24. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
The New Deal
Double V Campaign
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
League of Nations
25. United Farm Workers activist
The Holocaust
Cesar Chavez
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Henry Ford
26. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Sputnik
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Harlem Renaissance
Immigration
27. No cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Double V Campaign
Thomas Paine
Reconstruction
28. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Benjamin Franklin
Homestead Act
Free Enterprise Economy
Viet Nam
29. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Double V Campaign
Fidel Castro
The Rosenberg's
Upton Sinclair
30. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Red Scare
Treaty of Versailles
4th Amendment
John Scopes
31. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Prohibition
Woodrow Wilson
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Muckrakers
32. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Domino Theory
5th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Island hopping
33. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
14th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Omar Bradley
Reynolds v. Sims
34. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
17th Amendment
Nullification Crisis
Martin Luther King Jr
35. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Reconstruction
U-2 Incident
Booker T. Washington
Social Darwinism
36. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Political machines
Plessy v. Ferguson
Nikita Kruschev
37. The right to vote for women.
Jim Crow laws
Great Compromise
19thAmendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
38. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gloria Steinem
Viet Nam
39. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Sputnik
court packing
Muckrakers
40. Invented the vaccine for polio
Samuel Adams
5th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Transcontinental railroad
41. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Clarence Darrow
Joe McCarthy
George Washington
42. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Andrew Carnegie
Bobby Kennedy
Thomas Paine
Political machines
43. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
Malcolm X
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Manifest Destiny
44. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Nullification Crisis
Reynolds v. Sims
Laissez Faire
William H. Taft
45. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Booker T. Washington
Susan B. Anthony
Containment
46. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
Jacob Riis
Spanish - American War
Separation of Powers
47. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Theodore Roosevelt
Watergate
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Manifest Destiny
48. President during Roaring 20's
U-2 Incident
19thAmendment
Calvin Coolidge
2nd Amendment
49. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
court packing
Gloria Steinem
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Segregation
50. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
Great Society
The Articles of Confederation
U-2 Incident