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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. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Yellow Journalism
Escobedo v. Illinois
Bobby Kennedy
John J. Pershing
2. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Industrialization
Clarence Darrow
Fidel Castro
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
3. President during Roaring 20's
Calvin Coolidge
Trench Warfare
22nd Amendment
Dust Bowl
4. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jim Crow laws
Berlin Wall
Korean War
5. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Separation of Powers
Dust Bowl
Bobby Kennedy
Immigration
6. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
William H. Taft
The Little Rock Nine
Martin Luther King Jr
7. Sets a term limit for the President
The New Deal
22nd Amendment
The Rosenberg's
John F. Kennedy
8. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Populism
Federalist Papers
Reconstruction
Political machines
9. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Bay of Pigs
Battle of Wounded Knee
Cattle Drives
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
10. The right to vote for women.
19thAmendment
Nullification Crisis
Yellow Journalism
Escobedo v. Illinois
11. President 1963-68
Reconstruction
The War on Poverty
William 'Boss' Tweed
Lyndon B. Johnson
12. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
1st Amendment
WPA
Imperialism
Industrialization
13. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Social Darwinism
Neil Armstrong
Flappers
Bill of Rights
14. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Imperialism
Malcolm X
Barbed wire
Ronald Reagan
15. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
William H. Taft
The New Deal
FDIC
Watergate
16. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
John Scopes
Miranda v. Arizona
Brown v. Board of Education
court packing
17. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Command Economy
Cattle Drives
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Populism
18. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
14th Amendment
22nd Amendment
Bill of Rights
Benjamin Franklin
19. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
Truman Doctrine (1947)
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Neil Armstrong
20. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Great Society
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Industrialization
Tenements
21. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Trench Warfare
Free Enterprise Economy
Marshall Plan (1948)
Double V Campaign
22. Powers reserved to the states
Malcolm X
10th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
22nd Amendment
23. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Elvis Presley
Dawes Act
Thomas Paine
Abraham Lincoln
24. Founding father - politician - scientist
The Rosenberg's
Clarence Darrow
Lyndon B. Johnson
Benjamin Franklin
25. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
John J. Pershing
Rosa Parks
Muckrakers
Nullification Crisis
26. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Susan B. Anthony
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
King George III
27. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Sputnik
22nd Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
Shirley Chisholm
28. LJB's agenda designed to help poor American's.
The War on Poverty
Federalist Papers
Cesar Chavez
Warren G. Harding
29. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Sputnik
Command Economy
John F. Kennedy
Miranda v. Arizona
30. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Reconstruction
Social Darwinism
Gloria Steinem
The War on Poverty
31. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
The Holocaust
Thomas Jefferson
Civil War
32. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
WPA
19thAmendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Great Compromise
Ronald Reagan
Woodrow Wilson
22nd Amendment
34. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Marshall Plan (1948)
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Jacob Riis
John J. Pershing
35. Anarchists and Italian immigrants accused of murder. Sentenced to death.
Civil War
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sacco and Vanzetti
Barbed wire
36. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
The New Deal
The Jazz Age
Urbanization
Theodore Roosevelt
37. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Joe McCarthy
Checks and Balances
Trench Warfare
Sputnik
38. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
Thomas Jefferson
Muckrakers
Harry S. Truman
39. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Pearl Harbor
Teapot Dome Scandal
Lyndon B. Johnson
Andrew Carnegie
40. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
3rd Amendment
Manifest Destiny
Berlin Wall
41. Right to bear arms
Federalist Papers
Calvin Coolidge
SEC
2nd Amendment
42. Separation by race.
Segregation
Spanish - American War
The Holocaust
Booker T. Washington
43. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
The Great Migration
19thAmendment
Containment
44. Trial by jury.
24th Amendment
Viet Nam
7th Amendment
Checks and Balances
45. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Normandy
SEC
Containment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
46. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
John Scopes
Martin Luther King Jr
Emancipation Proclamation
Joe McCarthy
47. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Harry S. Truman
8th Amendment
Pearl Harbor
48. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
The Little Rock Nine
Korean War
Calvin Coolidge
Double V Campaign
49. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Rough Riders
Pearl Harbor
Muckrakers
The New Deal
50. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
19thAmendment
GI Bill
Reynolds v. Sims