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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
Henry Ford
FDIC
Rough Riders
Pearl Harbor
2. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Hoovervilles
Fourteen Points
Nullification Crisis
Georgia O'Keefe
3. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
Upton Sinclair
Hoovervilles
Domino Theory
4. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
The Scopes Trial
The Rosenberg's
Shirley Chisholm
5. Sets a term limit for the President
King George III
Elvis Presley
Trench Warfare
22nd Amendment
6. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
7th Amendment
Watergate
22nd Amendment
Cuban Missile Crisis
7. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Brown v. Board of Education
4th Amendment
Samuel Adams
The Holocaust
8. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
15th Amendment
1st Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Flappers
9. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
13th Amendment
Cattle Drives
George Wallace
William H. Taft
10. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Baker v. Carr
Hoovervilles
8th Amendment
Federalism
11. 1860 - 1865
Dust Bowl
Marshall Plan (1948)
Bracero Program
Civil War
12. Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
court packing
9th Amendment
Trench Warfare
13. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Miranda v. Arizona
Brown v. Board of Education
Douglas MacArthur
The War on Poverty
14. The right to vote for women.
Jonas Salk
Upton Sinclair
19thAmendment
The Great Migration
15. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Upton Sinclair
Reconstruction
Teapot Dome Scandal
Viet Nam
16. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
8th Amendment
William H. Taft
Elvis Presley
Treaty of Versailles
17. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Emancipation Proclamation
Rosa Parks
NATO (1959)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Thomas Paine
Bracero Program
Barbed wire
Separation of Powers
19. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
8th Amendment
WPA
The Scopes Trial
Susan B. Anthony
20. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Hoovervilles
Brown v. Board of Education
Prohibition
21. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Omar Bradley
Plessy v. Ferguson
John Scopes
Theodore Roosevelt
22. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
WPA
Charles Lindbergh
21st Amendment
Medger Evers
23. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Jonas Salk
Gloria Steinem
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Harlem Renaissance
24. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Brown v. Board of Education
Separation of Powers
17th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
25. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Flappers
Dawes Act
Nikita Kruschev
Korean War
26. President 1980-88.
Fourteen Points
Manifest Destiny
Thomas Paine
Ronald Reagan
27. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
The Scopes Trial
Teapot Dome Scandal
Berlin Airlift
Nullification Crisis
28. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
GI Bill
The Baby Boom
5th Amendment
Social Darwinism
29. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cattle Drives
Dust Bowl
Yellow Journalism
30. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
Federalism
Bracero Program
GI Bill
Great Compromise
31. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
10th Amendment
Jonas Salk
Federalist Papers
Political machines
32. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Yellow Journalism
Gloria Steinem
Upton Sinclair
33. Abolished slavery
Jonas Salk
Korean War
Normandy
13th Amendment
34. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Segregation
Booker T. Washington
WPA
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
35. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
GI Bill
John F. Kennedy
Escobedo v. Illinois
Containment
36. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Elvis Presley
Omar Bradley
Watergate
14th Amendment
37. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Booker T. Washington
Social Darwinism
Tenements
Henry Ford
38. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
2nd Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Viet Nam
Manifest Destiny
39. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Jim Crow laws
Command Economy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Watergate
40. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Gideon v. Wainwright
Theodore Roosevelt
Great Society
41. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
22nd Amendment
Warren G. Harding
GI Bill
Malcolm X
42. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
16th Amendment
Booker T. Washington
Rough Riders
43. Abolished the poll tax.
10th Amendment
Georgia O'Keefe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
24th Amendment
44. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
The New Deal
Ronald Reagan
26th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
45. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Gideon v. Wainwright
John J. Pershing
Political machines
Sputnik
46. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Hoovervilles
Henry Ford
William Jennings Bryan
Emancipation Proclamation
47. President 1961-63
The Scopes Trial
GI Bill
1st Amendment
John F. Kennedy
48. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Spanish - American War
Douglas MacArthur
Susan B. Anthony
World War I
49. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Yellow Journalism
Populism
Dust Bowl
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
50. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Brown v. Board of Education
Nikita Kruschev
Upton Sinclair
Federalism