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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Tenements
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Baby Boom
Separation of Powers
2. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Island hopping
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Medger Evers
Reconstruction
3. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
7th Amendment
Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Alfred Thayer Mahan
4. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Columbian Exchange
Ronald Reagan
Muckrakers
The Harlem Renaissance
5. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
GI Bill
Rosa Parks
24th Amendment
Bracero Program
6. New York political machine boss.
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7. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Rosa Parks
Federalism
Emancipation Proclamation
24th Amendment
8. Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield.
Trench Warfare
Woodrow Wilson
Gloria Steinem
Double V Campaign
9. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Pearl Harbor
6th Amendment
Rough Riders
Federalist Papers
10. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Civil War
Manifest Destiny
Malcolm X
26th Amendment
11. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
U.S.S. Maine
Gideon v. Wainwright
Samuel Adams
Yellow Journalism
12. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Gloria Steinem
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Red Scare
13. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Great Society
Theodore Roosevelt
Yellow Journalism
Thomas Jefferson
14. The prohibition of alcohol.
Theodore Roosevelt
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
Imperialism
15. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Omar Bradley
7th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
Federalism
16. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
22nd Amendment
court packing
Imperialism
17. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
16th Amendment
Berlin Wall
Rough Riders
Cesar Chavez
18. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Trench Warfare
Warren G. Harding
Double V Campaign
Civil War
19. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Shirley Chisholm
Reconstruction
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
U-2 Incident
20. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Miranda v. Arizona
Cuban Missile Crisis
22nd Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
21. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
Bracero Program
Immigration
The Articles of Confederation
22. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Yellow Journalism
7th Amendment
Free Enterprise Economy
Medger Evers
23. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Domino Theory
Clarence Darrow
18th Amendment
The Rosenberg's
24. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Lyndon B. Johnson
22nd Amendment
King George III
Great Society
25. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
21st Amendment
Homestead Act
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Miranda v. Arizona
26. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
George Washington
9th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Jacob Riis
27. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
17th Amendment
Tenements
John Scopes
WEB DuBois
28. Right to bear arms
Separation of Powers
2nd Amendment
Command Economy
22nd Amendment
29. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
Prohibition
Great Compromise
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John J. Pershing
30. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
26th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
Industrialization
Shirley Chisholm
31. Sets a term limit for the President
22nd Amendment
Transcontinental railroad
Plessy v. Ferguson
NATO (1959)
32. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Domino Theory
Thomas Jefferson
Plessy v. Ferguson
33. 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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34. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Reynolds v. Sims
U.S.S. Maine
Theodore Roosevelt
Great Compromise
35. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Cesar Chavez
26th Amendment
Cattle Drives
Richard M. Nixon
36. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Populism
Federalist Papers
1st Amendment
Bracero Program
37. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
21st Amendment
Bay of Pigs
1st Amendment
38. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Jacob Riis
Cattle Drives
39. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Manifest Destiny
Theodore Roosevelt
Great Society
Fourteen Points
40. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Malcolm X
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
WEB DuBois
Plessy v. Ferguson
41. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
5th Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Populism
Political machines
42. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Samuel Adams
Political machines
Thomas Jefferson
Cattle Drives
43. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Viet Nam
Red Scare
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Jefferson
44. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
15th Amendment
Hoovervilles
Henry Ford
Harry S. Truman
45. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Prohibition
Viet Nam
Domino Theory
Calvin Coolidge
46. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
Bracero Program
George Washington
Battle of Midway
47. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Laissez Faire
U-2 Incident
Command Economy
Elvis Presley
48. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Great Society
Spanish - American War
Harry S. Truman
Martin Luther King Jr
49. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
Watergate
Thomas Jefferson
24th Amendment
50. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
22nd Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Containment
Jacob Riis