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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Yellow Journalism
Double V Campaign
Populism
Harry S. Truman
2. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
U-2 Incident
Berlin Airlift
Emancipation Proclamation
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
3. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Harry S. Truman
Miranda v. Arizona
Upton Sinclair
Island hopping
4. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Berlin Wall
2nd Amendment
Douglas MacArthur
5. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
William 'Boss' Tweed
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
6. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
FDIC
Federalist Papers
14th Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
7. 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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8. No cruel or unusual punishment.
4th Amendment
8th Amendment
Checks and Balances
Cesar Chavez
9. The prohibition of alcohol.
William H. Taft
Thomas Paine
Trench Warfare
18th Amendment
10. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
Federalist Papers
Rough Riders
4th Amendment
court packing
11. Post - WW I attempt to create a United Nations type organization. US did not join.
League of Nations
Industrialization
John J. Pershing
Prohibition
12. Power is shared between the states and national government.
Jacob Riis
Homestead Act
court packing
Federalism
13. Apartments built in city slums to house large numbers of immigrants.
Containment
9th Amendment
17th Amendment
Tenements
14. President of the US during the Civil War.
2nd Amendment
The Rosenberg's
Abraham Lincoln
The Holocaust
15. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
21st Amendment
Prohibition
Yellow Journalism
16. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Escobedo v. Illinois
21st Amendment
WPA
17. New York political machine boss.
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18. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Sputnik
Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Jefferson
19. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Shirley Chisholm
Spanish - American War
Miranda v. Arizona
Barbed wire
20. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
1st Amendment
Baker v. Carr
NATO (1959)
The Articles of Confederation
21. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
WPA
Harry S. Truman
24th Amendment
Warren G. Harding
22. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Treaty of Versailles
Immigration
21st Amendment
8th Amendment
23. Invented the vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk
Dust Bowl
Charles Lindbergh
Berlin Airlift
24. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Clarence Darrow
Great Society
Free Enterprise Economy
Woodrow Wilson
25. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Miranda v. Arizona
Political machines
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
26. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Social Darwinism
World War I
Immigration
Pearl Harbor
27. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Immigration
John J. Pershing
Martin Luther King Jr
8th Amendment
28. President 1980-88.
Laissez Faire
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ronald Reagan
Barbed wire
29. President during 1920's period of corruption. Died in office.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Warren G. Harding
Containment
Bay of Pigs
30. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Spanish - American War
The Great Migration
The Scopes Trial
31. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
Nullification Crisis
Social Darwinism
Prohibition
Andrew Carnegie
32. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Brown v. Board of Education
Thomas Jefferson
Domino Theory
Political machines
33. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Social Darwinism
The Jazz Age
Martin Luther King Jr
Free Enterprise Economy
34. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
Reconstruction
Fourteen Points
World War I
35. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Checks and Balances
Urbanization
Fourteen Points
Georgia O'Keefe
36. Powers reserved to the states
Free Enterprise Economy
Elvis Presley
Korean War
10th Amendment
37. Founding father - politician - scientist
Containment
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Benjamin Franklin
The War on Poverty
38. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Immigration
Cuban Missile Crisis
Laissez Faire
Warren G. Harding
39. First form of government established by the 13 states.
The Holocaust
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Articles of Confederation
Cattle Drives
40. Laws that maintained segregation by preventing African Americans from voting.
Gloria Steinem
Jim Crow laws
Muckrakers
Brown v. Board of Education
41. 1914 - 1918
Cesar Chavez
World War I
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Sputnik
42. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Bay of Pigs
Woodrow Wilson
World War I
26th Amendment
43. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Miranda v. Arizona
Korean War
Gloria Steinem
Martin Luther King Jr
44. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Joe McCarthy
Thomas Jefferson
Free Enterprise Economy
League of Nations
45. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
William H. Taft
Georgia O'Keefe
Industrialization
19thAmendment
46. Auto manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass - produce the auto
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
John J. Pershing
26th Amendment
Henry Ford
47. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
15th Amendment
Columbian Exchange
John J. Pershing
6th Amendment
48. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Federalism
Cattle Drives
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
49. American painter from 1920's
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50. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
SEC
Thomas Paine
Theodore Roosevelt
Sputnik