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TAKS 11th Grade Us History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency
24th Amendment
Teapot Dome Scandal
2nd Amendment
Neil Armstrong
2. Defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial. He argued that evolution should be taught in schools.
Clarence Darrow
Marshall Plan (1948)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Cesar Chavez
3. American pilot who made the first non - stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Rosa Parks
William 'Boss' Tweed
Charles Lindbergh
Normandy
4. Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation - transportation - and crowded living conditions.
William H. Taft
Double V Campaign
4th Amendment
Urbanization
5. Power is shared between the states and national government.
1st Amendment
court packing
Federalism
Dust Bowl
6. Separation by race.
Harry S. Truman
Segregation
The Rosenberg's
Treaty of Versailles
7. Early African - American leader - believed African - Americans should achieve economic independence before social equality.
Great Society
Clarence Darrow
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Booker T. Washington
8. Author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd President of the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr
Thomas Jefferson
Neil Armstrong
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
9. Made segregation illegal in public schools.
Spanish - American War
Great Compromise
3rd Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
10. The mass migration of African - Americans to Northern cities from 1910 through both World Wars.
Charles Lindbergh
The Great Migration
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11. Policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Bracero Program
Calvin Coolidge
10th Amendment
12. 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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13. First president of the US. General in Revolutionary War.
Shirley Chisholm
The Holocaust
George Washington
Georgia O'Keefe
14. The first man - made satellite to be launched into outer space.
Sputnik
Omar Bradley
Federalism
George Washington
15. No cruel or unusual punishment.
The Jazz Age
8th Amendment
19thAmendment
Harry S. Truman
16. A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot - Francis Gary Powers - was captured.
The Little Rock Nine
U-2 Incident
4th Amendment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
17. Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. After she was jailed - the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.
Rosa Parks
Red Scare
Containment
Gideon v. Wainwright
18. Group of African - American students that were integrated into an all - white school in 1957
court packing
Battle of Midway
The Little Rock Nine
Nullification Crisis
19. New York political machine boss.
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20. US General who led the US 1st Army during the Invasion of Normandy.
Marshall Plan (1948)
Theodore Roosevelt
Omar Bradley
Dust Bowl
21. FDR's program for fighting the Great Depression.
Flappers
Watergate
The New Deal
The Jazz Age
22. US Admiral who encouraged the US to strengthen its naval power to become a world power.
Command Economy
Alfred Thayer Mahan
William H. Taft
Tenements
23. The direct election of US Senators.
Flappers
17th Amendment
Elvis Presley
Woodrow Wilson
24. War between the communist of North Vietnam and non - communist armies of S Vietnam supported by the US.
Malcolm X
The War on Poverty
Great Compromise
Viet Nam
25. Makes sure no branch of the government becomes too powerful.
The Little Rock Nine
Checks and Balances
5th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
26. Soviet leader during 1950's - 60's
Nikita Kruschev
Teapot Dome Scandal
WPA
Cattle Drives
27. Sets a term limit for the President
Benjamin Franklin
2nd Amendment
22nd Amendment
Treaty of Versailles
28. Alabama governor - segregationist - presidential candidate. Shot and left paralyzed.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Wallace
21st Amendment
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
29. The right to vote for women.
Nullification Crisis
19thAmendment
Bill of Rights
John J. Pershing
30. Economy in which economic decisions (supply - prices - etc.) are made by the government rather than by market forces.
Command Economy
Trench Warfare
John F. Kennedy
The Jazz Age
31. The period from the end of WW II through the mid -1960's marked by unusually high birth rates.
The Baby Boom
The Articles of Confederation
The War on Poverty
Warren G. Harding
32. The belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations will do the same.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Domino Theory
Malcolm X
John Scopes
33. Competition between European countries to create empires.
Initiative / Referendum / Recall
World War II
The New Deal
Imperialism
34. United Farm Workers activist
William H. Taft
Domino Theory
Cesar Chavez
Cuban Missile Crisis
35. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
Clarence Darrow
League of Nations
Battle of Wounded Knee
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
36. The belief that America had the God - given right and duty to expand across the continent
Marshall Plan (1948)
Manifest Destiny
Truman Doctrine (1947)
7th Amendment
37. 1939 - 1945
Booker T. Washington
World War II
17th Amendment
Marshall Plan (1948)
38. Ruled that state legislature districts had to be roughly equal in population.
Populism
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Reynolds v. Sims
Normandy
39. Trial by jury.
7th Amendment
Henry Ford
The New Deal
Tenements
40. Allied naval strategy to reach Japan by taking one island at a time.
Great Society
Island hopping
The Jazz Age
Henry Ford
41. Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color.
Douglas MacArthur
17th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
14th Amendment
42. Black Muslim who argued for separation - not integration. He changed his views - but was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X
Nullification Crisis
Susan B. Anthony
Spanish - American War
43. Reapportionment / one man - one vote
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Baker v. Carr
Benjamin Franklin
7th Amendment
44. President of the US during the Civil War.
Berlin Wall
4th Amendment
Baker v. Carr
Abraham Lincoln
45. Movement of people into a country from another country.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
SEC
Susan B. Anthony
Immigration
46. Founding father - politician - scientist
Benjamin Franklin
Reconstruction
Free Enterprise Economy
Bill of Rights
47. Progressive - era journalists sought to bring about reform.
Cesar Chavez
Muckrakers
Woodrow Wilson
19thAmendment
48. News that exaggerates the truth in order to sell more newspapers.
Yellow Journalism
Sputnik
U-2 Incident
John Scopes
49. 'Monkey Trial' that pitted creationism against Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Rosa Parks
Great Compromise
The Scopes Trial
50. Author of The Jungle - book that describes conditions of the meat packing plants and immigrants struggles.
Columbian Exchange
15th Amendment
Upton Sinclair
Fourteen Points