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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
19thAmendment
Treaty of Versailles
Command Economy
The War on Poverty
2. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
John Scopes
Harry S. Truman
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Harlem Renaissance
3. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Escobedo v. Illinois
The Articles of Confederation
Barbed wire
4. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
John Scopes
King George III
U-2 Incident
Rosa Parks
5. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
King George III
5th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
Battle of Midway
6. American painter from 1920's
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7. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
U-2 Incident
John J. Pershing
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Baby Boom
8. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Berlin Airlift
26th Amendment
Imperialism
9. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
William Jennings Bryan
court packing
Federalism
10. Abolished the poll tax.
7th Amendment
Jacob Riis
24th Amendment
Joe McCarthy
11. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Martin Luther King Jr
Yellow Journalism
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Georgia O'Keefe
12. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Samuel Adams
Prohibition
Separation of Powers
Susan B. Anthony
13. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Dawes Act
Double V Campaign
John J. Pershing
Warren G. Harding
14. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Sputnik
U.S.S. Maine
24th Amendment
15. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Tenements
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Treaty of Versailles
16. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Island hopping
Korean War
Harry S. Truman
17. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Medger Evers
Martin Luther King Jr
Hoovervilles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
18. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Tenements
Containment
Richard M. Nixon
Thomas Jefferson
19. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
21st Amendment
Rough Riders
Watergate
Elvis Presley
20. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Civil War
Homestead Act
Martin Luther King Jr
Shirley Chisholm
21. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Checks and Balances
5th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Truman Doctrine (1947)
22. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Federalism
U-2 Incident
Bill of Rights
Susan B. Anthony
23. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
U.S.S. Maine
Free Enterprise Economy
WPA
Berlin Airlift
24. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Muckrakers
Domino Theory
The Articles of Confederation
The Little Rock Nine
25. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
The New Deal
WPA
U.S.S. Maine
Reynolds v. Sims
26. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
WPA
The Little Rock Nine
GI Bill
Andrew Carnegie
27. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Fourteen Points
Cuban Missile Crisis
Great Compromise
Bill of Rights
28. Right to bear arms
King George III
2nd Amendment
18th Amendment
3rd Amendment
29. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
William H. Taft
Battle of Wounded Knee
Gideon v. Wainwright
Containment
30. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Malcolm X
15th Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Great Compromise
31. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
The Baby Boom
Prohibition
Medger Evers
Tenements
32. United Farm Workers activist
Brown v. Board of Education
Dawes Act
Cesar Chavez
The Rosenberg's
33. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
NATO (1959)
4th Amendment
34. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
4th Amendment
Medger Evers
Jonas Salk
Industrialization
35. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Normandy
Gideon v. Wainwright
36. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Shirley Chisholm
Watergate
SEC
Battle of Wounded Knee
37. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S.S. Maine
Jonas Salk
Fourteen Points
Charles Lindbergh
38. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Muckrakers
7th Amendment
18th Amendment
39. Separation by race.
Andrew Carnegie
Segregation
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Normandy
40. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Checks and Balances
Segregation
Great Compromise
U-2 Incident
41. The right to a fast and public trial.
6th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Martin Luther King Jr
FDIC
42. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Scopes Trial
43. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
John Scopes
15th Amendment
Battle of Midway
44. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Rough Riders
Miranda v. Arizona
45. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
1st Amendment
Muckrakers
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
46. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Theodore Roosevelt
Clarence Darrow
Dust Bowl
Martin Luther King Jr
47. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
court packing
1st Amendment
Island hopping
Upton Sinclair
48. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Jonas Salk
The Harlem Renaissance
Fidel Castro
49. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
FDIC
SEC
Douglas MacArthur
William Jennings Bryan
50. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
8th Amendment
Trench Warfare
1st Amendment
Gloria Steinem