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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Mississippi civil rights activist. Assasinated by KKK member.
Viet Nam
Urbanization
The Holocaust
Medger Evers
2. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Baker v. Carr
Warren G. Harding
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
The Jazz Age
3. 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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4. American painter from 1920's
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5. Political movement involving farmers - who wanted silver dollars (inflation) - government ownership of railroads - and lower protective tariffs.
Neil Armstrong
Cattle Drives
WEB DuBois
Populism
6. Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Jacob Riis
Emancipation Proclamation
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Homestead Act
7. Civil Rights leader from 1950's -1960's. Assassinated in 1968.
Laissez Faire
Martin Luther King Jr
Douglas MacArthur
Free Enterprise Economy
8. US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948.
9th Amendment
Harry S. Truman
Berlin Airlift
The Articles of Confederation
9. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
Spanish - American War
John J. Pershing
Pearl Harbor
Red Scare
10. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Booker T. Washington
League of Nations
The Jazz Age
Island hopping
11. Program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Political machines
George Washington
Marshall Plan (1948)
Escobedo v. Illinois
12. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Abraham Lincoln
Manifest Destiny
Segregation
Charles Lindbergh
13. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Hoovervilles
Immigration
Baker v. Carr
Brown v. Board of Education
14. Separation by race.
Segregation
Harry S. Truman
Andrew Carnegie
Fidel Castro
15. Ruled courts are required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford attorneys.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Treaty of Versailles
The Great Migration
George Wallace
16. No cruel or unusual punishment.
Transcontinental railroad
8th Amendment
John F. Kennedy
Charles Lindbergh
17. 1920's women began to demand more freedom and assert their independence.
26th Amendment
Barbed wire
Federalism
Flappers
18. 1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific.
Muckrakers
Spanish - American War
The Little Rock Nine
Federalist Papers
19. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
Cattle Drives
The Baby Boom
NATO (1959)
Flappers
20. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
Fourteen Points
Bill of Rights
Columbian Exchange
U-2 Incident
21. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Great Society
Dawes Act
15th Amendment
Reconstruction
22. A wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. The wall stood until 1989.
Urbanization
Tenements
Berlin Wall
Sacco and Vanzetti
23. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Gloria Steinem
Nikita Kruschev
The War on Poverty
Georgia O'Keefe
24. Reform movement that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. It also increased organized crime.
18th Amendment
Prohibition
Cesar Chavez
Ronald Reagan
25. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
24th Amendment
21st Amendment
Trench Warfare
Benjamin Franklin
26. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
Dust Bowl
Jim Crow laws
Fourteen Points
Berlin Wall
27. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Command Economy
NATO (1959)
Muckrakers
Reynolds v. Sims
28. Works Progress Administration. New Deal work program during Depression.
Thomas Jefferson
The Scopes Trial
Dawes Act
WPA
29. Established the federal income tax.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Berlin Wall
16th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
30. American feminist icon - journalist - and social and political activist.
Gloria Steinem
U-2 Incident
1st Amendment
George Washington
31. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
Rosa Parks
Federalism
Malcolm X
32. Divides the powers of government into 3 branches: legislative - executive - judicial
Rough Riders
Escobedo v. Illinois
Nikita Kruschev
Separation of Powers
33. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Booker T. Washington
Upton Sinclair
Jim Crow laws
The Holocaust
34. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
The Holocaust
Plessy v. Ferguson
Thomas Paine
35. Rights reserved to the people.
9th Amendment
The Harlem Renaissance
World War II
Douglas MacArthur
36. Progressive era President. Pro - imperialist.
Free Enterprise Economy
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Columbian Exchange
37. African Americans pledged to fight for "Double Victory" - victory over Hitler in Europe - but also against racism at home.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Double V Campaign
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
5th Amendment
38. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
WPA
Omar Bradley
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Segregation
39. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Ronald Reagan
Fourteen Points
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Yellow Journalism
40. The turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Segregation
Spanish - American War
Transcontinental railroad
Battle of Midway
41. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
18th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
Martin Luther King Jr
Great Compromise
42. 1869 - it helped connect the West and East coasts.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
World War II
Elvis Presley
Transcontinental railroad
43. Early rock n ' roll performer
The Baby Boom
Elvis Presley
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
John F. Kennedy
44. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Cuban Missile Crisis
SEC
Domino Theory
Treaty of Versailles
45. 1914 - 1918
Tenements
World War I
Flappers
Muckrakers
46. Invented the vaccine for polio
Checks and Balances
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Dawes Act
Jonas Salk
47. Law that attempted to assimilate Indians by giving them individual plots of land.
The Great Migration
John Scopes
The New Deal
Dawes Act
48. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains - eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
The Scopes Trial
Barbed wire
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
Tenements
49. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Escobedo v. Illinois
Rosa Parks
Rough Riders
Sputnik
50. Ruled those arrested must be informed of their right to an attorney before questioning
Miranda v. Arizona
Joe McCarthy
Manifest Destiny
Fidel Castro