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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. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Dust Bowl
Barbed wire
Bill of Rights
Woodrow Wilson
2. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Susan B. Anthony
Yellow Journalism
The Holocaust
U-2 Incident
3. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
24th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
The Great Migration
4. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Federalism
Jim Crow laws
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Thomas Paine
5. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Jim Crow laws
8th Amendment
FDIC
6. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Great Compromise
Omar Bradley
Domino Theory
1st Amendment
7. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
26th Amendment
Laissez Faire
8. American painter from 1920's
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9. The direct election of US Senators.
William 'Boss' Tweed
William H. Taft
Joe McCarthy
17th Amendment
10. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Cattle Drives
Escobedo v. Illinois
Harry S. Truman
Immigration
11. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
John J. Pershing
Joe McCarthy
Bay of Pigs
Benjamin Franklin
12. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Barbed wire
10th Amendment
League of Nations
Segregation
13. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Martin Luther King Jr
26th Amendment
The War on Poverty
7th Amendment
14. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Douglas MacArthur
Jacob Riis
Jim Crow laws
Emancipation Proclamation
15. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Checks and Balances
Upton Sinclair
Charles Lindbergh
Warren G. Harding
16. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Federalism
3rd Amendment
Spanish - American War
Shirley Chisholm
17. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
24th Amendment
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Susan B. Anthony
22nd Amendment
18. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Double V Campaign
Gloria Steinem
19. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
The Great Migration
Trench Warfare
The Holocaust
21st Amendment
20. United Farm Workers activist
Red Scare
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cesar Chavez
Fourteen Points
21. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
The Rosenberg's
Manifest Destiny
Federalism
Populism
22. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Brown v. Board of Education
Manifest Destiny
WEB DuBois
Teapot Dome Scandal
23. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
13th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
The Harlem Renaissance
George Washington
24. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Charles Lindbergh
Yellow Journalism
Homestead Act
Urbanization
25. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
U-2 Incident
Separation of Powers
Containment
George Wallace
26. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Free Enterprise Economy
Industrialization
Emancipation Proclamation
27. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
Bobby Kennedy
Watergate
Double V Campaign
28. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Barbed wire
Miranda v. Arizona
Spanish - American War
Separation of Powers
29. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Immigration
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Neil Armstrong
The Rosenberg's
30. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Federalist Papers
Cattle Drives
Nikita Kruschev
Berlin Wall
31. No cruel or unusual punishment.
George Washington
8th Amendment
SEC
Prohibition
32. Communist leader of Cuba.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Federalism
Fidel Castro
Shirley Chisholm
33. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Laissez Faire
Flappers
Upton Sinclair
Thomas Paine
34. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
Bobby Kennedy
Industrialization
1st Amendment
35. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Manifest Destiny
Truman Doctrine (1947)
FDIC
Martin Luther King Jr
36. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Malcolm X
Domino Theory
Joe McCarthy
Treaty of Versailles
37. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Fidel Castro
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Transcontinental railroad
24th Amendment
38. Abolished the poll tax.
Fourteen Points
William H. Taft
24th Amendment
Rough Riders
39. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Henry Ford
Island hopping
Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
40. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
William 'Boss' Tweed
John J. Pershing
Emancipation Proclamation
5th Amendment
41. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Immigration
Theodore Roosevelt
Miranda v. Arizona
Gloria Steinem
42. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
10th Amendment
Segregation
Rosa Parks
Andrew Carnegie
43. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Trench Warfare
Berlin Wall
44. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
King George III
SEC
Martin Luther King Jr
45. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
Treaty of Versailles
Segregation
The Scopes Trial
46. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Baker v. Carr
Booker T. Washington
Korean War
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
47. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Jim Crow laws
Dust Bowl
Nullification Crisis
Double V Campaign
48. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Baker v. Carr
Normandy
Homestead Act
Hoovervilles
49. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
9th Amendment
SEC
Booker T. Washington
50. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Social Darwinism
Separation of Powers
Federalism
Reynolds v. Sims