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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Federalism
WPA
George Wallace
Escobedo v. Illinois
2. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Social Darwinism
Emancipation Proclamation
Federalist Papers
Clarence Darrow
3. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Brown v. Board of Education
21st Amendment
Social Darwinism
King George III
4. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
16th Amendment
U.S.S. Maine
court packing
Nikita Kruschev
5. JFK's brother and attorney general. Assassinated 1968
Bobby Kennedy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
3rd Amendment
Political machines
6. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Trench Warfare
Calvin Coolidge
Free Enterprise Economy
The New Deal
7. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
Battle of Wounded Knee
U.S.S. Maine
Flappers
The Rosenberg's
8. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Political machines
Woodrow Wilson
Rough Riders
9. Dec.7 - 1941 - Japanese attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor. U.S. enters the war as a result.
Prohibition
Muckrakers
Gideon v. Wainwright
Pearl Harbor
10. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Richard M. Nixon
Viet Nam
Columbian Exchange
11. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
Cesar Chavez
6th Amendment
League of Nations
16th Amendment
12. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Political machines
Reconstruction
22nd Amendment
Watergate
13. The right to vote for women.
16th Amendment
League of Nations
19thAmendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
14. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
The New Deal
Omar Bradley
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Free Enterprise Economy
15. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
Dawes Act
Warren G. Harding
Alfred Thayer Mahan
16. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
League of Nations
Omar Bradley
Rough Riders
Columbian Exchange
17. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Gideon v. Wainwright
18. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Barbed wire
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
19. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
Manifest Destiny
Charles Lindbergh
Teapot Dome Scandal
Urbanization
20. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Homestead Act
Federalist Papers
Industrialization
The Little Rock Nine
21. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Richard M. Nixon
Bay of Pigs
The Articles of Confederation
Populism
22. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr
Harry S. Truman
6th Amendment
Yellow Journalism
23. Communist leader of Cuba.
Emancipation Proclamation
William 'Boss' Tweed
Fidel Castro
Joe McCarthy
24. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Political machines
NATO (1959)
Marshall Plan (1948)
George Wallace
25. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Bill of Rights
Industrialization
Civil War
The Scopes Trial
26. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
Transcontinental railroad
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
8th Amendment
27. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Checks and Balances
Separation of Powers
Dawes Act
Immigration
28. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
26th Amendment
Rough Riders
Normandy
4th Amendment
29. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Henry Ford
Rough Riders
Sacco and Vanzetti
League of Nations
30. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Calvin Coolidge
26th Amendment
Island hopping
Ronald Reagan
31. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
The Little Rock Nine
Korean War
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
32. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
Nullification Crisis
Bobby Kennedy
Bay of Pigs
Laissez Faire
33. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Trench Warfare
Samuel Adams
WEB DuBois
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
34. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
WPA
Elvis Presley
Harry S. Truman
Red Scare
35. Law that provided 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the West.
Tenements
Separation of Powers
Homestead Act
WPA
36. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Rough Riders
Civil War
5th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
37. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
8th Amendment
Berlin Airlift
Bill of Rights
Bay of Pigs
38. US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
Spanish - American War
Battle of Wounded Knee
court packing
Bay of Pigs
39. 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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40. President 1961-63
Watergate
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
22nd Amendment
John F. Kennedy
41. Abolished the poll tax.
U-2 Incident
Reynolds v. Sims
24th Amendment
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
42. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Charles Lindbergh
6th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
The Articles of Confederation
43. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
John Scopes
18th Amendment
3rd Amendment
Red Scare
44. The policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to other nations.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Containment
Immigration
Bay of Pigs
45. First form of government established by the 13 states.
Rough Riders
The Articles of Confederation
Berlin Wall
The Scopes Trial
46. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
The Scopes Trial
Viet Nam
Benjamin Franklin
47. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Cattle Drives
Harry S. Truman
The Holocaust
48. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Containment
Thomas Jefferson
Normandy
Korean War
49. 1860 - 1865
Benjamin Franklin
The Jazz Age
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Civil War
50. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Free Enterprise Economy
The Holocaust
Reconstruction