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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. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
George Wallace
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Bill of Rights
The Articles of Confederation
2. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Prohibition
WPA
FDIC
The War on Poverty
3. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
The Great Migration
Joe McCarthy
Muckrakers
George Washington
4. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Escobedo v. Illinois
Susan B. Anthony
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
5. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Medger Evers
Columbian Exchange
The Harlem Renaissance
Thomas Paine
6. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
The Baby Boom
Escobedo v. Illinois
Samuel Adams
Nikita Kruschev
7. Powers reserved to the states
Susan B. Anthony
Transcontinental railroad
10th Amendment
18th Amendment
8. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Malcolm X
Immigration
Federalism
Homestead Act
9. LBJ's program that addressed America's social problems including health care - civil rights - and urban decay.
Nullification Crisis
Great Society
Gideon v. Wainwright
King George III
10. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Manifest Destiny
5th Amendment
Rough Riders
Bill of Rights
11. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Korean War
Calvin Coolidge
Lyndon B. Johnson
12. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Island hopping
Booker T. Washington
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
NATO (1959)
13. 1914 - 1918
John F. Kennedy
World War I
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcolm X
14. President of the US during the Civil War.
William H. Taft
Separation of Powers
Abraham Lincoln
The Jazz Age
15. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
John Scopes
Cuban Missile Crisis
Clarence Darrow
Battle of Wounded Knee
16. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
William 'Boss' Tweed
John Scopes
Viet Nam
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
17. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
The Little Rock Nine
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
24th Amendment
George Washington
18. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Cuban Missile Crisis
16th Amendment
Fourteen Points
19. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Normandy
John F. Kennedy
Segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
20. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Imperialism
Pearl Harbor
The New Deal
Berlin Wall
21. Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
Manifest Destiny
Federalism
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Shirley Chisholm
22. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Thomas Paine
The Great Migration
William H. Taft
23. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Red Scare
WEB DuBois
Elvis Presley
Reconstruction
24. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
1st Amendment
Truman Doctrine (1947)
9th Amendment
16th Amendment
25. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Nullification Crisis
Bobby Kennedy
Great Society
Alfred Thayer Mahan
26. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
George Washington
Prohibition
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Separation of Powers
27. President 1963-68
Lyndon B. Johnson
Korean War
Treaty of Versailles
WEB DuBois
28. President during Roaring 20's
3rd Amendment
24th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Calvin Coolidge
29. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Great Compromise
Separation of Powers
14th Amendment
Samuel Adams
30. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Hoovervilles
8th Amendment
Imperialism
5th Amendment
31. King of Great Britain during American Revolution
Laissez Faire
King George III
Watergate
Lyndon B. Johnson
32. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
GI Bill
Prohibition
WEB DuBois
Homestead Act
33. The right to a fast and public trial.
Prohibition
Benjamin Franklin
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
6th Amendment
34. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
Immigration
Separation of Powers
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
35. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Bill of Rights
Gideon v. Wainwright
Political machines
Jonas Salk
36. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
5th Amendment
19thAmendment
Shirley Chisholm
Alfred Thayer Mahan
37. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Yellow Journalism
Watergate
William Jennings Bryan
Treaty of Versailles
38. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
GI Bill
Douglas MacArthur
Escobedo v. Illinois
Immigration
39. Freedom of speech - religion and press;
1st Amendment
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Baker v. Carr
40. President 1980-88.
Normandy
Ronald Reagan
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Korean War
41. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Scopes Trial
Civil War
FDIC
Tenements
42. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Columbian Exchange
Cattle Drives
3rd Amendment
Federalism
43. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Dawes Act
Thomas Paine
Bay of Pigs
24th Amendment
44. Abolished slavery
Normandy
Watergate
13th Amendment
Trench Warfare
45. No quartering of troops during peace time
WEB DuBois
3rd Amendment
Hoovervilles
Sacco and Vanzetti
46. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Tenements
Viet Nam
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Domino Theory
47. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
3rd Amendment
William 'Boss' Tweed
Theodore Roosevelt
48. Invented the vaccine for polio
14th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
King George III
Jonas Salk
49. Rights reserved to the people.
Muckrakers
9th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Rosenberg's
50. Progressive president who served during WW I.
17th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Woodrow Wilson
Free Enterprise Economy