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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
The Baby Boom
Henry Ford
The Little Rock Nine
World War I
2. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Reynolds v. Sims
26th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
WEB DuBois
3. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Great Society
Joe McCarthy
4. The prohibition of alcohol.
Cesar Chavez
18th Amendment
14th Amendment
16th Amendment
5. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Spanish - American War
Samuel Adams
Woodrow Wilson
Bobby Kennedy
6. 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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7. Early rock n ' roll performer
Elvis Presley
8th Amendment
Flappers
3rd Amendment
8. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Great Compromise
16th Amendment
Command Economy
9. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Yellow Journalism
Columbian Exchange
Battle of Midway
16th Amendment
10. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
17th Amendment
The War on Poverty
FDIC
Yellow Journalism
11. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Flappers
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Gloria Steinem
Transcontinental railroad
12. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Bobby Kennedy
15th Amendment
22nd Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
13. Abolished the poll tax.
U.S.S. Maine
24th Amendment
John J. Pershing
21st Amendment
14. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Separation of Powers
Thomas Jefferson
26th Amendment
Lyndon B. Johnson
15. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Checks and Balances
Great Society
Shirley Chisholm
Richard M. Nixon
16. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
John F. Kennedy
The Scopes Trial
William H. Taft
Rosa Parks
17. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Bill of Rights
Marshall Plan (1948)
WEB DuBois
Command Economy
18. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
Reconstruction
William Jennings Bryan
Great Society
Cuban Missile Crisis
19. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Booker T. Washington
Watergate
10th Amendment
21st Amendment
20. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Plessy v. Ferguson
Normandy
Imperialism
21. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Transcontinental railroad
The Scopes Trial
22. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Sputnik
The Holocaust
Nikita Kruschev
Joe McCarthy
23. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Command Economy
Theodore Roosevelt
Populism
Prohibition
24. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Bracero Program
U-2 Incident
Flappers
25. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
John Scopes
The Jazz Age
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Paine
26. Communist leader of Cuba.
Fidel Castro
Rough Riders
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Rosa Parks
27. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
Great Compromise
Lyndon B. Johnson
Neil Armstrong
1st Amendment
28. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Island hopping
Tenements
Battle of Wounded Knee
Emancipation Proclamation
29. Right to bear arms
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
2nd Amendment
Muckrakers
Great Society
30. New York political machine boss.
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31. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The Articles of Confederation
Fidel Castro
The New Deal
Bracero Program
32. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Clarence Darrow
Medger Evers
Miranda v. Arizona
Berlin Airlift
33. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Richard M. Nixon
Neil Armstrong
26th Amendment
Checks and Balances
34. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Separation of Powers
Political machines
Rough Riders
Upton Sinclair
35. United Farm Workers activist
Cesar Chavez
5th Amendment
World War I
Homestead Act
36. President during Roaring 20's
Calvin Coolidge
Industrialization
Normandy
Columbian Exchange
37. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Bracero Program
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Woodrow Wilson
38. 1939 - 1945
Island hopping
Abraham Lincoln
The Jazz Age
World War II
39. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Checks and Balances
Baker v. Carr
8th Amendment
WPA
40. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Cattle Drives
Island hopping
John F. Kennedy
Teapot Dome Scandal
41. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Plessy v. Ferguson
John F. Kennedy
Bay of Pigs
Watergate
42. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Bobby Kennedy
Urbanization
8th Amendment
The Articles of Confederation
43. Abolished slavery
The Great Migration
13th Amendment
Martin Luther King Jr
Miranda v. Arizona
44. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
League of Nations
Containment
26th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
45. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
7th Amendment
World War I
Great Society
Double V Campaign
46. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nullification Crisis
Command Economy
Double V Campaign
Rosa Parks
47. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Douglas MacArthur
The Jazz Age
Columbian Exchange
48. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Sacco and Vanzetti
Rough Riders
Manifest Destiny
The Holocaust
49. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Harry S. Truman
Bay of Pigs
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Treaty of Versailles
50. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
WPA
Theodore Roosevelt
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Dawes Act