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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. President 1961-63
9th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Political machines
John F. Kennedy
2. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Muckrakers
1st Amendment
Pearl Harbor
3. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Jacob Riis
Battle of Wounded Knee
Command Economy
Booker T. Washington
4. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Urbanization
Baker v. Carr
The War on Poverty
5. Trial by jury.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
6. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Tenements
World War II
Escobedo v. Illinois
League of Nations
7. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Federalism
24th Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Island hopping
8. Founding father - politician - scientist
King George III
Benjamin Franklin
Bay of Pigs
Baker v. Carr
9. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Command Economy
Red Scare
7th Amendment
10. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Hoovervilles
Urbanization
The Holocaust
NATO (1959)
11. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Viet Nam
Nullification Crisis
The Articles of Confederation
10th Amendment
12. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Jacob Riis
Transcontinental railroad
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Nikita Kruschev
13. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Tenements
Treaty of Versailles
John F. Kennedy
Flappers
14. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Jim Crow laws
Trench Warfare
Double V Campaign
15. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
8th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Gloria Steinem
George Washington
16. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Prohibition
Normandy
King George III
17. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
15th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
Great Society
21st Amendment
18. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
6th Amendment
NATO (1959)
George Washington
19. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Normandy
Muckrakers
The Holocaust
Ronald Reagan
20. Abolished the poll tax.
Berlin Airlift
24th Amendment
Command Economy
Great Compromise
21. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
World War I
Dust Bowl
Spanish - American War
WEB DuBois
22. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Abraham Lincoln
Dawes Act
George Wallace
Flappers
23. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Free Enterprise Economy
Escobedo v. Illinois
George Washington
Upton Sinclair
24. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nikita Kruschev
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Nullification Crisis
Sputnik
25. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Baby Boom
Warren G. Harding
King George III
26. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Prohibition
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Thomas Paine
16th Amendment
27. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Fourteen Points
Richard M. Nixon
Transcontinental railroad
28. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Political machines
Barbed wire
WPA
WEB DuBois
29. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Reconstruction
Joe McCarthy
The War on Poverty
30. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
William 'Boss' Tweed
Plessy v. Ferguson
Elvis Presley
William Jennings Bryan
31. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
Social Darwinism
George Wallace
Treaty of Versailles
32. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Bay of Pigs
Upton Sinclair
Charles Lindbergh
court packing
33. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Brown v. Board of Education
Medger Evers
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Dawes Act
Emancipation Proclamation
FDIC
Baker v. Carr
35. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Great Society
The Baby Boom
Muckrakers
8th Amendment
36. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
John F. Kennedy
The Baby Boom
SEC
26th Amendment
37. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Command Economy
Georgia O'Keefe
Harry S. Truman
Populism
38. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Lindbergh
Elvis Presley
Miranda v. Arizona
39. Sets a term limit for the President
Jim Crow laws
Sacco and Vanzetti
22nd Amendment
Omar Bradley
40. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
5th Amendment
Watergate
Malcolm X
Great Compromise
41. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Transcontinental railroad
Social Darwinism
Federalism
42. President 1963-68
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Island hopping
Gloria Steinem
Lyndon B. Johnson
43. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Immigration
Reconstruction
GI Bill
Charles Lindbergh
44. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
Berlin Airlift
The Little Rock Nine
Red Scare
Jim Crow laws
45. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Shirley Chisholm
Social Darwinism
Separation of Powers
Battle of Midway
46. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
The Harlem Renaissance
Flappers
Great Society
Clarence Darrow
47. Abolished slavery
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nullification Crisis
13th Amendment
Bobby Kennedy
48. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Barbed wire
Reynolds v. Sims
William Jennings Bryan
Double V Campaign
49. First form of government established by the 13 states.
19thAmendment
League of Nations
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Articles of Confederation
50. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Federalism
2nd Amendment
Neil Armstrong
Escobedo v. Illinois