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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
Escobedo v. Illinois
Berlin Wall
Hoovervilles
Marshall Plan (1948)
2. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
Charles Lindbergh
7th Amendment
FDIC
The Baby Boom
3. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Dawes Act
Samuel Adams
Great Compromise
Battle of Midway
4. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Social Darwinism
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Separation of Powers
Thomas Paine
5. No quartering of troops during peace time
3rd Amendment
Cesar Chavez
13th Amendment
Korean War
6. Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense.
The Articles of Confederation
GI Bill
Thomas Paine
Sputnik
7. US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared.
court packing
The Harlem Renaissance
U.S.S. Maine
WPA
8. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Richard M. Nixon
Muckrakers
The War on Poverty
WEB DuBois
9. Power is shared between the states and national government.
WEB DuBois
Federalism
The War on Poverty
Industrialization
10. 1939 - 1945
Segregation
21st Amendment
Columbian Exchange
World War II
11. 1860 - 1865
Federalist Papers
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Civil War
Booker T. Washington
12. President 1961-63
John F. Kennedy
Populism
The Articles of Confederation
Medger Evers
13. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Watergate
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Viet Nam
Marshall Plan (1948)
14. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Clarence Darrow
Immigration
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
10th Amendment
15. No double jeopardy - do not have to testify against yourself.
Charles Lindbergh
Federalism
5th Amendment
Double V Campaign
16. Pres. of the US during WWII & early Cold War. Made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
Harry S. Truman
Domino Theory
10th Amendment
Industrialization
17. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Double V Campaign
Georgia O'Keefe
Nikita Kruschev
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
18. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Island hopping
SEC
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
19. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Berlin Airlift
19thAmendment
10th Amendment
14th Amendment
20. Populist presidential candidate and prosecutor in the Scopes Trial.
William Jennings Bryan
court packing
Barbed wire
Emancipation Proclamation
21. Statesman - political philosopher - and one of the Founding Fathers
Henry Ford
Escobedo v. Illinois
Samuel Adams
14th Amendment
22. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Social Darwinism
Federalist Papers
The New Deal
WEB DuBois
23. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
Great Society
George Wallace
10th Amendment
24. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Thomas Jefferson
Berlin Airlift
25. First astronaut to land on the moon.
The Holocaust
19thAmendment
Neil Armstrong
The Baby Boom
26. The prohibition of alcohol.
Neil Armstrong
Brown v. Board of Education
18th Amendment
FDIC
27. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Reynolds v. Sims
Berlin Airlift
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Miranda v. Arizona
28. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
The War on Poverty
Richard M. Nixon
Berlin Wall
Sputnik
29. Business tycoon who controlled most of the steel industry.
2nd Amendment
Andrew Carnegie
Jonas Salk
Civil War
30. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
26th Amendment
Clarence Darrow
Richard M. Nixon
15th Amendment
31. The direct election of US Senators.
Immigration
17th Amendment
FDIC
Command Economy
32. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Dust Bowl
King George III
Imperialism
13th Amendment
33. President during Great Depression & WW II. 1933 - 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Jazz Age
WEB DuBois
Laissez Faire
34. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
SEC
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
WPA
Checks and Balances
35. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Baker v. Carr
Prohibition
Command Economy
36. Eliminated literacy tests for voters.
Berlin Airlift
19thAmendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Great Migration
37. The first African - American woman elected to the U.S House of Representatives.
Shirley Chisholm
Great Compromise
WPA
Clarence Darrow
38. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Double V Campaign
Trench Warfare
8th Amendment
John Scopes
39. The right to vote for women.
Reynolds v. Sims
19thAmendment
World War I
Clarence Darrow
40. Progressive - era reforms that gave citizens more political power`
Social Darwinism
Joe McCarthy
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
Free Enterprise Economy
41. Rights reserved to the people.
Dust Bowl
Flappers
9th Amendment
Dawes Act
42. 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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43. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Segregation
Martin Luther King Jr
Bracero Program
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
44. Period of African - American cultural creativity in Music - art - literature during the 1920's
Douglas MacArthur
21st Amendment
George Washington
The Harlem Renaissance
45. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Laissez Faire
Douglas MacArthur
Transcontinental railroad
Sputnik
46. Established the federal income tax.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Korean War
16th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
47. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Columbian Exchange
Douglas MacArthur
Red Scare
48. A system by which people can conduct business free of government control except for reasonable regulations made for the public good.
Martin Luther King Jr
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Free Enterprise Economy
Immigration
49. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Cesar Chavez
GI Bill
Marshall Plan (1948)
John Scopes
50. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
George Washington
Political machines
Dawes Act
Domino Theory