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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Spanish - American War
FDIC
Domino Theory
Susan B. Anthony
2. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26th Amendment
8th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
3. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
Domino Theory
Fourteen Points
Lyndon B. Johnson
Teapot Dome Scandal
4. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
Cesar Chavez
Fourteen Points
Miranda v. Arizona
5. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
William H. Taft
Battle of Midway
Laissez Faire
Homestead Act
6. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
The New Deal
The Holocaust
GI Bill
21st Amendment
7. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
15th Amendment
Battle of Wounded Knee
Double V Campaign
Reynolds v. Sims
8. Argument between South Carolina and the federal government over the role of the national government.
U-2 Incident
World War II
Nullification Crisis
Bill of Rights
9. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
John J. Pershing
Command Economy
SEC
Cattle Drives
10. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Manifest Destiny
Immigration
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Wounded Knee
11. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Samuel Adams
Dust Bowl
The Articles of Confederation
Great Society
12. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
John J. Pershing
George Washington
Hoovervilles
Plessy v. Ferguson
13. Political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice - led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Watergate
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
NATO (1959)
14. Abolished slavery
William H. Taft
13th Amendment
10th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
15. Cowboys drove herds of cattle along trails to be shipped to the East by railroad.
Cattle Drives
9th Amendment
Reconstruction
Teapot Dome Scandal
16. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Charles Lindbergh
Medger Evers
Bill of Rights
Domino Theory
17. Made discrimination based on race - religion or national origin in public places.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Homestead Act
Berlin Wall
Upton Sinclair
18. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Andrew Carnegie
FDIC
Social Darwinism
5th Amendment
19. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
WEB DuBois
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Reconstruction
Gloria Steinem
20. Right to bear arms
Sacco and Vanzetti
2nd Amendment
King George III
Checks and Balances
21. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Plessy v. Ferguson
U-2 Incident
Berlin Airlift
Yellow Journalism
22. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Separation of Powers
Pearl Harbor
Viet Nam
Abraham Lincoln
23. Progressive president who served during WW I.
Nikita Kruschev
Gideon v. Wainwright
Emancipation Proclamation
Woodrow Wilson
24. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
13th Amendment
Richard M. Nixon
Dawes Act
Normandy
25. American painter from 1920's
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26. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
GI Bill
Ronald Reagan
Douglas MacArthur
Sputnik
27. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
Reconstruction
John Scopes
Berlin Wall
28. Essays written to encourage ratification of the constitution.
Georgia O'Keefe
Federalist Papers
Gideon v. Wainwright
The New Deal
29. Failed invasion of Cuba planned by the US government
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Samuel Adams
18th Amendment
Bay of Pigs
30. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Great Compromise
Red Scare
The Holocaust
League of Nations
31. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
Checks and Balances
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S.S. Maine
Marshall Plan (1948)
32. New York political machine boss.
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33. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Richard M. Nixon
Transcontinental railroad
Reconstruction
Clarence Darrow
34. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
Manifest Destiny
The Scopes Trial
Red Scare
Charles Lindbergh
35. Gave African - American men the right to vote.
Red Scare
15th Amendment
Omar Bradley
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
36. Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.
Industrialization
Political machines
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
World War I
37. 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
Viet Nam
10th Amendment
8th Amendment
38. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Douglas MacArthur
Jonas Salk
Georgia O'Keefe
39. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
21st Amendment
The War on Poverty
Island hopping
Dawes Act
40. First astronaut to land on the moon.
Nikita Kruschev
Neil Armstrong
Georgia O'Keefe
SEC
41. Abolished the poll tax.
Clarence Darrow
Bill of Rights
24th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
42. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
The Little Rock Nine
Bobby Kennedy
U.S.S. Maine
Great Society
43. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Teapot Dome Scandal
John J. Pershing
Dawes Act
9th Amendment
44. Leader of the women's suffrage movement.
Containment
WPA
Battle of Midway
Susan B. Anthony
45. President of the US during the Civil War.
Thomas Paine
Georgia O'Keefe
Abraham Lincoln
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
46. Trial by jury.
GI Bill
7th Amendment
Nikita Kruschev
Immigration
47. Accused people of being Communists without providing evidence.
Yellow Journalism
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hoovervilles
Joe McCarthy
48. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Laissez Faire
William H. Taft
Cattle Drives
The Rosenberg's
49. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
The Great Migration
5th Amendment
14th Amendment
Cesar Chavez
50. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Fourteen Points
Dawes Act
Shirley Chisholm
Miranda v. Arizona