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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
The Holocaust
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Battle of Wounded Knee
Medger Evers
2. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Jim Crow laws
10th Amendment
Great Compromise
George Washington
3. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
24th Amendment
17th Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Baby Boom
4. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Douglas MacArthur
Hoovervilles
Charles Lindbergh
Rough Riders
5. President 1980-88.
Ronald Reagan
Checks and Balances
Georgia O'Keefe
14th Amendment
6. United Farm Workers activist
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cesar Chavez
Civil War
Georgia O'Keefe
7. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Bay of Pigs
Political machines
Brown v. Board of Education
John Scopes
8. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Berlin Wall
Transcontinental railroad
Elvis Presley
Woodrow Wilson
9. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
The War on Poverty
The Rosenberg's
Douglas MacArthur
FDIC
10. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
World War II
Urbanization
Samuel Adams
11. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
SEC
Watergate
Bobby Kennedy
Teapot Dome Scandal
12. The direct election of US Senators.
Double V Campaign
Battle of Wounded Knee
King George III
17th Amendment
13. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
George Wallace
Cattle Drives
Pearl Harbor
19thAmendment
14. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Richard M. Nixon
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
15. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
The Holocaust
Nikita Kruschev
Great Society
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
16. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Segregation
Martin Luther King Jr
Dawes Act
Imperialism
17. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman
William H. Taft
U-2 Incident
Island hopping
18. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
Dawes Act
Omar Bradley
Island hopping
Samuel Adams
19. Early rock n ' roll performer
Double V Campaign
Elvis Presley
Plessy v. Ferguson
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
20. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Fourteen Points
Nikita Kruschev
Dust Bowl
U-2 Incident
21. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Industrialization
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Rosa Parks
World War II
22. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Jacob Riis
William 'Boss' Tweed
Political machines
23. Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Rough Riders
Calvin Coolidge
Great Society
24. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Miranda v. Arizona
17th Amendment
4th Amendment
Social Darwinism
25. Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that 'separate but equal' facilities were legal.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Baker v. Carr
Battle of Midway
Plessy v. Ferguson
26. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Transcontinental railroad
Brown v. Board of Education
The Articles of Confederation
5th Amendment
27. Founding father - politician - scientist
U.S.S. Maine
Benjamin Franklin
WEB DuBois
WPA
28. Abolished the poll tax.
Thomas Jefferson
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Sputnik
24th Amendment
29. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
The Jazz Age
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Baby Boom
Tenements
30. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Rosa Parks
Neil Armstrong
Malcolm X
Thomas Jefferson
31. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
5th Amendment
The Great Migration
Reynolds v. Sims
Truman Doctrine (1947)
32. The idea that government should not interfere with business practices.
Double V Campaign
World War I
Laissez Faire
Medger Evers
33. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Fidel Castro
Berlin Wall
The Harlem Renaissance
34. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
4th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Charles Lindbergh
35. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
Escobedo v. Illinois
Viet Nam
Thomas Jefferson
36. Right to bear arms
Martin Luther King Jr
2nd Amendment
U-2 Incident
Theodore Roosevelt
37. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
21st Amendment
WEB DuBois
Domino Theory
Emancipation Proclamation
38. Alternate term for 1920's.
The Jazz Age
Muckrakers
26th Amendment
Samuel Adams
39. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Prohibition
14th Amendment
Homestead Act
Domino Theory
40. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
SEC
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Georgia O'Keefe
Muckrakers
41. 1914 - 1918
World War I
21st Amendment
Shirley Chisholm
Great Society
42. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Federalist Papers
Manifest Destiny
8th Amendment
Elvis Presley
43. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Alfred Thayer Mahan
SEC
Fourteen Points
Containment
44. The prohibition of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Segregation
Bay of Pigs
Benjamin Franklin
45. Established the federal income tax.
Charles Lindbergh
Yellow Journalism
16th Amendment
Douglas MacArthur
46. American painter from 1920's
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47. Photographer who raised awareness of working and living conditions of immigrants in the factories and tenements.
Miranda v. Arizona
Trench Warfare
GI Bill
Jacob Riis
48. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Spanish - American War
Nikita Kruschev
SEC
49. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Federalist Papers
Elvis Presley
Malcolm X
Dawes Act
50. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Cuban Missile Crisis
14th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Emancipation Proclamation