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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Prohibition
Warren G. Harding
Battle of Midway
Alfred Thayer Mahan
2. US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D- Day). Cold War President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Watergate
Teapot Dome Scandal
26th Amendment
3. US general in charge of the Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean.
Malcolm X
Upton Sinclair
Calvin Coolidge
Douglas MacArthur
4. Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
NATO (1959)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Cuban Missile Crisis
Political machines
5. Power is shared between the states and national government.
SEC
Battle of Midway
Miranda v. Arizona
Federalism
6. The exchange of crops - animals - and disease and ideas of different cultures after Europeans landed in the Americas
Bracero Program
Red Scare
Columbian Exchange
The Articles of Confederation
7. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
9th Amendment
The New Deal
Teapot Dome Scandal
Domino Theory
8. The mass murder of 6 million Jews and others in Nazi concentration camps.
Rough Riders
Spanish - American War
The Holocaust
The Harlem Renaissance
9. No quartering of troops during peace time
Woodrow Wilson
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
3rd Amendment
Jonas Salk
10. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Island hopping
17th Amendment
Great Compromise
The Baby Boom
11. A standoff between the Us and the Soviet Union when it was discovered that the Soviets had installed missiles pointed at the Us.
Tenements
Marshall Plan (1948)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Truman Doctrine (1947)
12. Ruling bared quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action
Sacco and Vanzetti
U-2 Incident
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Rough Riders
13. United Farm Workers activist
Free Enterprise Economy
Cesar Chavez
Industrialization
Berlin Wall
14. Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African - Americans
WEB DuBois
Barbed wire
Island hopping
Command Economy
15. Gave 18 year - olds the right to vote - largely due to the draft.
Columbian Exchange
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
8th Amendment
26th Amendment
16. Area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
Calvin Coolidge
Joe McCarthy
Dust Bowl
Marshall Plan (1948)
17. Securities & Exchange Commission - regulates stock market. Created during Depression.
Rough Riders
Free Enterprise Economy
SEC
8th Amendment
18. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
21st Amendment
World War II
9th Amendment
George Washington
19. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Henry Ford
Social Darwinism
Viet Nam
Dust Bowl
20. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
FDIC
Richard M. Nixon
Brown v. Board of Education
Immigration
21. President 1968 - 74. Resigned after Watergate
Escobedo v. Illinois
Richard M. Nixon
Spanish - American War
Jim Crow laws
22. Repealed the 18th amendment and ends Prohibition
Watergate
Columbian Exchange
U-2 Incident
21st Amendment
23. Ruled criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations
Emancipation Proclamation
WPA
Escobedo v. Illinois
U-2 Incident
24. Depression - era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
Ronald Reagan
3rd Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
Hoovervilles
25. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
John F. Kennedy
Checks and Balances
Susan B. Anthony
17th Amendment
26. A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits.
26th Amendment
GI Bill
Rough Riders
Manifest Destiny
27. W. Wilson's proposal for peace after WW I
NATO (1959)
Fourteen Points
Muckrakers
WPA
28. Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920's.
Laissez Faire
Red Scare
Political machines
22nd Amendment
29. The direct election of US Senators.
17th Amendment
7th Amendment
Rosa Parks
Upton Sinclair
30. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - Insurance for people's bank accounts.
court packing
FDIC
The Rosenberg's
Industrialization
31. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Cesar Chavez
Homestead Act
GI Bill
Truman Doctrine (1947)
32. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Jonas Salk
Upton Sinclair
Trench Warfare
1st Amendment
33. Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
Watergate
Reconstruction
Marshall Plan (1948)
22nd Amendment
34. President during Roaring 20's
Calvin Coolidge
14th Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
Benjamin Franklin
35. Volunteer calvary unit led by Teddy Roosevelt that gained fame at the battle of San Juan Hill.
WEB DuBois
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Rough Riders
Trench Warfare
36. Allowed temporary work contracts for Mexican immigrants.
Bracero Program
Cesar Chavez
Great Society
Calvin Coolidge
37. Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WW I
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
John J. Pershing
18th Amendment
Battle of Midway
38. The belief that the rich succeed because they re superior to the poor.
Douglas MacArthur
Social Darwinism
Bracero Program
Double V Campaign
39. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Federalist Papers
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Bracero Program
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
40. Compromise between the big and small states over representation in Congress
Great Compromise
7th Amendment
8th Amendment
The Baby Boom
41. 1st ten amendments to Constitution. Protects individual rights.
26th Amendment
Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
42. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Fidel Castro
Rosa Parks
Clarence Darrow
43. Teacher was charged with violating laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
Martin Luther King Jr
The Jazz Age
Island hopping
John Scopes
44. Abolished slavery
13th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
The Holocaust
Brown v. Board of Education
45. Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Red Scare
The Little Rock Nine
Populism
46. 1950-53 war with N Korea & China. Ended in a stalemate but S. Korea remained a democracy.
Korean War
Harry S. Truman
U-2 Incident
William 'Boss' Tweed
47. The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy.
Elvis Presley
Muckrakers
3rd Amendment
Industrialization
48. 1944 invasion of Europe. (D- Day)
Battle of Midway
Bill of Rights
Normandy
Barbed wire
49. Progressive president chosen as successor to Teddy Roosevelt.
Muckrakers
Ronald Reagan
William H. Taft
FDIC
50. American painter from 1920's
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