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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. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Imperialism
World War II
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Thomas Jefferson
14th Amendment
Benjamin Franklin
Neil Armstrong
3. No quartering of troops during peace time
4th Amendment
10th Amendment
21st Amendment
3rd Amendment
4. New York political machine boss.
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5. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
24th Amendment
Populism
Barbed wire
6. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Joe McCarthy
15th Amendment
League of Nations
Clarence Darrow
7. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Sputnik
3rd Amendment
Manifest Destiny
8. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Great Society
Rough Riders
2nd Amendment
Flappers
9. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Columbian Exchange
GI Bill
22nd Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
10. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
7th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Elvis Presley
Omar Bradley
11. Founding father - politician - scientist
Civil War
Malcolm X
Tenements
Benjamin Franklin
12. President during Roaring 20's
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Calvin Coolidge
1st Amendment
13. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Medger Evers
21st Amendment
Urbanization
Bay of Pigs
14. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Harry S. Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Spanish - American War
George Wallace
15. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Dust Bowl
The Holocaust
24th Amendment
court packing
16. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Korean War
Trench Warfare
Escobedo v. Illinois
17. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Clarence Darrow
court packing
Command Economy
Malcolm X
18. Sets a term limit for the President
24th Amendment
22nd Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
The Harlem Renaissance
Joe McCarthy
Douglas MacArthur
Gloria Steinem
20. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Andrew Carnegie
16th Amendment
Trench Warfare
24th Amendment
21. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Bracero Program
Laissez Faire
16th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
22. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
Harry S. Truman
Treaty of Versailles
Transcontinental railroad
23. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Double V Campaign
Nullification Crisis
24. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Bracero Program
Medger Evers
Georgia O'Keefe
Great Compromise
25. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Reconstruction
Flappers
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
26. 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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27. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Civil War
Dawes Act
Warren G. Harding
Fourteen Points
28. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
FDIC
Thomas Paine
Malcolm X
29. President of the US during the Civil War.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Abraham Lincoln
Viet Nam
Harry S. Truman
30. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Manifest Destiny
Bill of Rights
Containment
Nikita Kruschev
31. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Korean War
19thAmendment
Industrialization
Laissez Faire
32. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Joe McCarthy
William H. Taft
Manifest Destiny
Warren G. Harding
33. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Bill of Rights
The Baby Boom
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
34. 1939 - 1945
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
18th Amendment
World War II
Dawes Act
35. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Free Enterprise Economy
Clarence Darrow
Domino Theory
Gloria Steinem
36. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
GI Bill
Bill of Rights
Charles Lindbergh
Battle of Midway
37. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
Reconstruction
Cattle Drives
George Washington
38. The right to vote for women.
The Holocaust
19thAmendment
Separation of Powers
Warren G. Harding
39. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Articles of Confederation
court packing
Theodore Roosevelt
Clarence Darrow
40. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
WEB DuBois
The New Deal
Federalist Papers
Brown v. Board of Education
41. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
10th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Battle of Midway
Checks and Balances
42. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Reynolds v. Sims
Fourteen Points
Cuban Missile Crisis
Richard M. Nixon
43. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Double V Campaign
19thAmendment
Warren G. Harding
44. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
4th Amendment
Sputnik
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
45. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Homestead Act
Woodrow Wilson
Benjamin Franklin
Douglas MacArthur
46. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
8th Amendment
Rough Riders
Segregation
Miranda v. Arizona
47. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Samuel Adams
Theodore Roosevelt
26th Amendment
Henry Ford
48. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
SEC
Fourteen Points
19thAmendment
Martin Luther King Jr
49. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Political machines
Free Enterprise Economy
Berlin Airlift
Jonas Salk
50. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
8th Amendment
George Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Abraham Lincoln